Dakota Krout

Expansion. Uneasy alliances. Looming Madness. Both Cal and Dale have become stronger, each in spite of the other. The dungeon-Cal-knows exactly how much their power has increased and is working daily to become exponentially more powerful. His schemes are becoming more complex and his dungeon-his body-more deadly. Dale works to subvert the plans of the dungeon, but his opponent is onto him. Hearing a voice in his head distracts him in critical moments requiring him to fight his mind even as he battles deadly creatures. Unbeknownst to both, their fight is not with each other-it's for the continuation of their lives. Madness threatens the land, and it is coming for them.

Dungeon Madness

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This is bad. Like just all round.

Poorly written. It jumps from perspective in the middle of a paragraph. 

This author seems constitutionally incapable of using contractions - everything is worded in the clunkiest way possible. 

The jokes are terrible. And even worse, the author seems to be saying "Do you get it?" after each tedious quip.

Dale doesn't do anything. He gets more powerful by things just happening to him. 

Hans is a sexual harasser. How did the author think it was a good idea to have a character this lecherous?

Speaking of sexual harassment, it's just creepy the way the author seems to be leering at his female characters. He even has Cal perform surgery on a woman to make her beautiful, going so far as to remove all hair below her head. This was done without the woman's consent, but of course she was ok with it...

This book has FANTASY EUGENICS. I honestly can't believe this. Cal adopts a race of intelligent and sentient beings who were previously enslaved. He then goes on to 'improve' the race through physical and mental changes. He then makes these new beings mobs in his dungeon, with the rationale that they chose this life (while fleeing from slavery).

I have to ask, why are Dale and Cal antagonistic towards each other? Dale is shown to be money hungry, and Cal can make infinite money. Surely Dale would bring Cal anything he wants (like new items), and ask for a reward. Cal would get everything he could ever want, if he were to just be more co-operative.

I'm also guessing this author is some form of Libertarian because Dale's property rights are put above anyone else's rights, and he seems to get off on enforcing or threatening to enforce his ownership. There's also the 'eye for an eye' style punishment that Dale doles out.

Tom is a worse version of Drax from 'Guardians of the Galaxy'. The author can't even commit to keeping up the shtick half of the time, or just forgets?

It's not a good book, but it's not boring so 2/5

Dungeon Madness

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