Terrible Narration

One of the very few books I’ve returned. Listened to less than an hour of this before having to give up. Unless the narrator was told to voice the Dungeon Master like the character was written in all caps.
I don’t know if the story was good, it could be the best ever, I’ll never get to hear it.

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I had higher hopes for this book.

I thought that this book would be about either a Dungeon Core, or a Dungeon Master, that finally breaks free from its bonds to finally wreak havok on the world.
What I found was something different.
And not in the good way.

An entity that claims that he is evil, but is nothing more but a grumpy grandpa in comparrison.
And the protagonist is naïve to boot.
Claims that he is centuries old but dosn't seem to recognise other entitys domains. Or use the knowledge that he should have, thanks to his age and claimed power.

The women that is around him is constantly rude to him. Instead of showing an ounce of his "attitude" from his time in the dungeon, he is patient with them.

I don't know if I want to continue this book series.

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superficial terrible characters and generic story

A banished god of the underworld trapped in his dungeon awakened after 300 years of slumber. Ready to kill the entertainment that entered his domain.bSounds promising right. Well continuity last for about 20 min.

Mr. evil dark Lord is a friendly guy who through various reasons, ranging from dumb to outright stupid, takes on the 4 adventurers as minions who entered his domain. And that's all it takes for mr. evil to be a caring nice guy.

The first gruelling point is the magic. For a good fantasy book it's important that are rules or guidelines governing it. If not magic simply becomes a maguffin aka a plotdevice to move the story. The main character makes dumb decisions, and simply escapes because he's more powerful.

Intertwining with the above problem is the story. It's thin and simple. All problems are solved by convenient magic. The most powerful mages in the land created x. no problem we have magic y. stuff like that.

Third problem is that the characters themselves are 1 dimensional and arbitrary.
The 4 minions are women and are some are races that are looked down upon. This is also the books reasoning for the women being in the dungeon. To prove themselves.

Unfortunately each fit generic stereotypes that have little to no range or interesting aspects which also applies to the main mr. evil bad but good person guy. The author tries, but fails to make them interesting.

The books premise is excellent. But it fails to capitalise on any of them and instead becomes a tame telling that dries itself out

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Trash

This is awfully written, poorly crafted and lacks any kind of true effort. It’s like a 15 year old DnD Game Master put together his first scenario with no GM experience. Would not even recommend to my enemies.

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