The Crafter's Dungeon: A Dungeon Core Novel

Dungeon Crafting, Book 1

By: Jonathan Brooks

Narrated by: Louise Cooksey

Sandra had been a merchant traveling through the human lands of Muriel, though that wouldn’t have been her chosen profession.

What she would’ve loved to become was a crafter, producing wondrous creations with her own two hands; however, she didn’t want to become a master in just one craft - she was interested in them all.

Unfortunately, Sandra was born with a deformity in her hands that made them appear frozen in a claw-like pose; as a result, she couldn’t grip anything with any sort of strength or dexterity, meaning that she wasn’t able craft anything but the most simple of things that required very little in the way of hand-based manipulation. To top it off, while most people could access and manipulate at least one or two of the basic elemental energies, she could see them all - but was unable to manipulate a single one.

Despite these setbacks, Sandra spent the majority of her 26 years of life visually learning the processes, techniques, and secret formulas for every aspect of crafting she could discover. And it was that pursuit of knowledge that ultimately led to her untimely death.

Reborn in the shape of a tiny Dungeon Core, Sandra learned about the purpose behind dungeons and Cores from an assigned dungeon helper; at the same time, she also discovered that she had much more freedom than most other Dungeon Cores.

The repercussions of her mere existence could end up being far-reaching, but the most important thing she learned had nothing to do with the other Cores, the different races, or even the real purpose behind her being brought back to life as a strange glowing gem. Sandra didn’t care about any of that, though - all she cared about was that she could finally do some crafting.

This Dungeon Core story contains LitRPG/GameLit elements such as statistics and leveling and a heavy crafting emphasis. No profanity and no harems.

©2019 Jonathan Brooks (P)2019 Jonathan Brooks

I love this book

The story is great and the pacing is good maybe a little much on stats But still good. Louise is a good reader as well I was enjoying the whole damn thing cant wait for the next one

good story

dungeon core books are my heroine so I can not wait for the next one wish the stars were like his other book where you get a pdf file

Solid read/listen

Pretty good story a little long winded with the repeated stats of things but the progression makes up for it I'm interested to see this story develop farther and will definitely be reading any additions to this series.

Fantastic book

This is a great take on the dungeon core concept. It's entertaining and insightful in the ways of such an interesting fantasy/Sci fi topic

great book

it's a little short for me and some of the data reiterations took to much time but the story was great and the performance was enjoyable

I now want my best friend to be a dwarf & orc mix.

It starts off good, then he gets into the minutia of starting the dungeon up and getting it going and then it gets back on track with the interesting stuff. Brooks really gets into the nuts and bolts of how his world works and if you are a gaming geek like him he doesn't disappoint. If you don't like knowing all the stats and stuff just hold on. it doesn't take too long and then you're golden.
This is an interesting take on a dungeon core story. She doesn't want to power up to be powerful and battle for glory. She wants to make her dungeon a crafter's dungeon and help the races that are in her area. But she has to make sure they don't kill her before she can help them.
Brooks does some great writing and Cooksey does some great narrating.
If you like fantasy, dungeons and cores, half dwarf and half orc characters, dungeon core fairies and especially LitRPG you are going to love this book.

pretty good overall

I like this book overall. Narrator's performance was a little awkward with pacing and inflection.

Not too bad

It started off well in my opinion but I was not a fan of the sobby end.

Loved every minute

I bought this book on a whim since I grew up reading manga about people magic to build and create and it always thought me to look towards building. So when I saw this book in my recommended I bought it and finished the in roughly 2 days once staying up till I passed out listening to the book and then finding the book to be almost finished so went back to the last thing I listened to but great read if your a building fan.

Good dungeon?...

I like the idea of a moral dungeon that wants to help society instead of going on a homicidal binge. Excited to see where this goes in book 2, hopefully we will see more interaction with sentient races of the world. so far so good!