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The Elemental Dungeon Trilogy: A Complete Dungeon Core Box Set

By: Jonathan Smidt
Narrated by: Will M. Watt, Jeff Hays, Laurie Catherine Winkel, Annie Ellicott
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The complete trilogy of Jonathan Smidt's hit 2020 Dungeon Core Series, Elemental Dungeon! This box set is filled with a skeleTON of action, puns, dungeon building, more puns, monster creation, and an iconic cast of characters! Grab your party and dive back into an unforgettable Dungeon Core adventure!

Ryan doesn’t remember much about his life before becoming a dungeon core. Only that he had a bit of a disagreement with the church—something to do with a beheading?

Now reborn, Ryan begins to arm his darkness dungeon with devious traps, bestial zombies and ill-named skeletal creations, without doing anything too evil.

Well, mostly. Some adventurers just deserve a stalactite to the head.

But Ryan quickly learns being a darkness dungeon isn’t all loot and bone puns. With a necromancer on the rise and the Adventurer’s Guild watching his every move, he must prove that not all darkness dungeons are malevolent… even if they do have a few skeletons in their caverns.

Sadly, all of these issues keep distracting him from his own guilty pleasure, skeletal fight club. But don’t tell his fairy about that.

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why the heck do u have a cricket in the background for a whole chapter.

love the story so far. narrator perfect. STUPID STUPID SOUND EFFECTS. we are listening to books for outer imagination. I'm on chapter 20 1st book. about to request a refund.

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As pun-filled as it is action-packed!

Jonathan Smidt’s The Elemental Dungeon Trilogy is an immersive Dungeon Core adventure that’s as pun-filled as it is action-packed. The writing is sharp, and the narrators, Will M. Watt, Jeff Hays, Laurie Catherine Winkel, and Annie Ellicott, bring the characters to life with energy and charm. As the synopsis teases, “Ryan doesn’t remember much about his life before becoming a dungeon core,” but you’ll remember this trilogy long after the last skeleton drops.

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Missing dialogue

There are some parts of the book with missing dialogue in it and missing important details

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More than worth it! You'll be glad you checked it out!

The story is good, solid, with no glaring issues. I wasn't expecting a really interesting story, based on the fact that all 3 books were packaged together and offered inexpensively. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Both author and audiobook production were very good, with no issues other than that book 3, chapter 82 is messed up. I'm not sure what happened. I re-downloaded the book, as words were missing and there were strange gaps in between sentences. The second download, as well as streaming through my Echo produced the same results. Otherwise, I'd have given 5 stars in all three categories.

I did not listen to this book with anyone in mind but myself, so I won't comment on appropriateness for kids or whatever. There is very little discussed in the nature of relationships and, if there was any language, I ignored it, since it's ubiquitous in most things. I don't recall it here, but I tend to forget those kind of things. I'd recommend this series (and will!) to my friends and family. If you're looking for harems or romance, then wrong series. If you want a well written story that will keep you listening through 3 books, well, this is the correct series. I can only hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

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loved the book except the missing content.

starting on chapter 36 in hollowed bones there are obvious missing parts, several blank sections.

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Sad that the last book has points where it cuts out

I love the story and the flow is so smooth keeping me wrapped chapter after chapter. Seeing the growth, hearing and feeling as I’m walking the story with the characters and sharing in the losses and the victories.

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Meh

the story is basic, MC likes bones, young boy wants to be a paladin, but becomes super powerful super fast, yada yada. everybody is just family so fast and always we are family. and the dungeon needs help because someone is always going to kill the dungeon and needs someone to save him.

it's an ok dungeon story, a good way to kill 47 hours as background noise.

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Goes down hill

Started off alright and then just went down hill for me. Maybe some better editing would have helped. Some conversation dragged on and felt repetitive.

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Long and Boring

The author likes to restate certain things within the story. The concept of the story is good, but the writing is not as if the hammer home a point, the author will retail an entire mini story arc just to get a pop across the point that specific person is good or bad. By the third book, the author will tell us who a specific person is who we’ve been interacting with this entire time. I don’t mind when an author re-introduces a long lost character or if they give a short description as to her this person was again as a reminder to give us a whole chapter how this person makes the main character feel is a bit much. The story is also a series of downs. I always feel like the main characters can never do anything right and there’s never a win for them. By the third book which I did not finish, I had to stop after a major plot point because everything that the characters do failed and everything that we’ve been writing on seems useless. Minor spoiler: when Blake goes to get the sword and we have a whole arc about how important it is to redeem the dungeon, don’t then crap on your entire story by making it all useless. I’ve never written a review before, but I’ve had to write one for this one because it’s so frustrating to see a potentially good story goes so bad. the readers performance was good however it could have been better if it’s sped up just a little bit it felt a little drawn out for my taste.

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I returned it, lost the excitement and intrigue

The little things just got to me till i finally had to just return the book an hour or two after the new fairy. I lost interest and it seemed to be going really no where.

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