Dungeon Man Sam and the Orphaned Core

Dungeon Man Sam, Book 1

By: J.W. Benjamin

Narrated by: Chris Ciulla

Samuel Tolliver holds a deep and abiding hatred for Dungeons. For years he's been working and scheming to rid them from existence, and now he’s got a plan to do it.

But there's a problem: dungeons form the backbone of national economies and their construction is big business in this world. It doesn’t help that Sam’s father runs one of the world’s premier dungeon construction companies, or that Sam works for the family business.

And when a series of disastrous events culminate in the death of Sam and everyone he knows, it seemed that all was lost. Until a voice came to him, offering a deal he could not refuse.

Now Dungeon Man Sam has returned to life as the guardian for a strange new dungeon core. To save himself and his family, Sam must construct a dungeon like the world has never seen and defend it against all comers, be they monstrous or adventurous.

If he succeeds, he'll see his family once more. If he fails, oblivion awaits.

And somewhere, beyond his awareness, something ancient and terrible stirs and takes notice.

Dungeon Man Sam is a slow-burn character-focused dungeon-building LitRPG novel with a unique leveling system and elements of crafting and real time strategy.

©2022 J.W. Benjamin (P)2022 Podium Audio

Another dungeon book with fairy disease

We start out with a creative smart and likable protagonist. In enters a very childlike, low intelligence, and excitable fairy. Result as with every other book I've read with dungeon fairy's is fairy disease. Fairy disease: where every other character in book suddenly suffers from stupidity in order to make the fairy look useful to the story, this results in the protagonist becoming as stupid as the fairy and constantly depending on the fairy to either support their ideas, justify their actions, or save the day with what should be obvious ideas. Remember author starts out with intelligent/ confident protagonist. By mid way through he is a mess with repeating inner dialogue every chapter before he remembers he is " not alone" and finally moves forward for a few pages (usually after fairy gushes over him".

Second thing is the reader. He makes the fairy sound like a mix between an excited chuwawa and Shaggy from scooby doo. Its almost unbearable with voice change mid word.

End review story is not bad but suffers from to much inner dialogue, annoying fairy, and really bad pacing.

could be better

The main character is not relatable and the story had potential but the main character ruins it.

his fault

Well it comes to find out it's not all his fault but it seems like it

High potential for a good story to come

This has a potential to be a good series there were some parts in the book that we're a little forced but at the same time it was good We have yet to see what will happen with this series but he sets things up for the next book in a good way

narrator sucks.

his voice is awful. he can't do female voices, his male voices sound the same, and his Lich voice is grating to listen to. the story sucks, but I can listen to a bad story if the narrator is talented.

this is a hard pass.

This is the quickest nope of my life

I didn't even last five minutes.

Son tinkers with an incredibly volatile dungeon core on the kitchen table in the small home he shares with his family.

Strike 1.

Mother sees him do this, understands what happening, and instead of backing off or waiting for him to stop to beat his ass up, she sneaks up on him and ambush-thwaks him on the head - seemingly displaying a critical lack of wanting to not be blown up.

Strike 2.

Then the stupid 'Mum' class and 'Mum-thwack' debuffs from the system.

Strike 3.

In 5 minutes.


Maybe someone finds this funny. I find it so stupid I just couldn't continue. A warning of things to come, a warning I heeded and noped out.