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Dungeon Diving #10
Dungeon Diving 302
Ken and company find that with the introduction of the Threadspawn, the whole dungeon becomes far less friendly. Even the populace on Earth is spooked.
Which is why the UG and Haylon sends Ken and a few others on the press tour. Though, even that can't keep Ken from the action. The Threadspawn invade Earth meanwhile Ken is recruited fully into the demon hierarchy.
Now he has to balance loyalties to the UG and the Hierachry while the Threadspawn threat grows ever closer.
Which is why the UG and Haylon sends Ken and a few others on the press tour. Though, even that can't keep Ken from the action. The Threadspawn invade Earth meanwhile Ken is recruited fully into the demon hierarchy.
Now he has to balance loyalties to the UG and the Hierachry while the Threadspawn threat grows ever closer.
316 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 10, 2025
About the author
Bruce Sentar
61 books899 followersBorn and raised in the agricultural midwest, I moved every year after school even as far as Shanghai before settling down with my wife in Chicago.
I have always enjoyed Wuxia stories and became thrilled when I discovered harem stories spreading to western books. I've written down my day dreams for years as an idle hobby. Inspired by the harem genre I'm finally fleshing them out into full blown novels.
I'm excited to share my stories with you as I turn them into novels and series.
Connect with me on Facebook for updates on my latest books.
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I have always enjoyed Wuxia stories and became thrilled when I discovered harem stories spreading to western books. I've written down my day dreams for years as an idle hobby. Inspired by the harem genre I'm finally fleshing them out into full blown novels.
I'm excited to share my stories with you as I turn them into novels and series.
Connect with me on Facebook for updates on my latest books.
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December 14, 2025
So I quit two thirds in. What gets me is I've read Saving Supervillians, I know Sentar can do quality character work. Why this is filled with flat characters pumped through a turnstile is beyond me. The interview part in the beginning set the tone for this, and was very unimpressive.
December 18, 2025
Not much positive to say, really. I may have run my course with this series. I was a good series for the first seven or so books, but these last three have been more of a chore than a pleasure.
I don't understand how you can use the tried-and-true mind-controlling-parasite trope and then immediately ruin it by giving your MC an ability that negates the entire POINT of the trope; the inability to determine who is infected. THAT is the entire magic sauce.
But, it's not even the worst part of the book; the story just meanders all over the place. We've abandoned all the interesting companions, focusing exclusively on the ones that have become the most one-dimensional - the horny demon and the worthless cat. Seriously, I get that the author thinks the whole cream thing is funny but ... it's not. And it's less funny when you see it 30 times in one book.
And, worse than all of that, the whole demon lord thing turned into the biggest nothing burger. I thought this might be an opportunity for some interesting conflict; will the demon lord force Ken to submit and take over his cult and harem? Of course not. Ugh.
I don't understand how you can use the tried-and-true mind-controlling-parasite trope and then immediately ruin it by giving your MC an ability that negates the entire POINT of the trope; the inability to determine who is infected. THAT is the entire magic sauce.
But, it's not even the worst part of the book; the story just meanders all over the place. We've abandoned all the interesting companions, focusing exclusively on the ones that have become the most one-dimensional - the horny demon and the worthless cat. Seriously, I get that the author thinks the whole cream thing is funny but ... it's not. And it's less funny when you see it 30 times in one book.
And, worse than all of that, the whole demon lord thing turned into the biggest nothing burger. I thought this might be an opportunity for some interesting conflict; will the demon lord force Ken to submit and take over his cult and harem? Of course not. Ugh.
December 14, 2025
Threadspawn are so gross and make me feel icky BUT having more of Bellaire makes it bearable.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 27, 2025
I DNF this book pretty early in. There were a few troubling trends with the harem size and the training montages. In this book, the MC is apparently going on a press tour, and as part of it their personal press person is giving him and one of the LIs some training to get ready for how interviews will go. And this woman is playing with his manhood through his pants while asking him questions he needs to know how to handle. That's the point I realized the author's bad habit of writing by the "seat of his pants" had caught up to him yet again. Harem too big, plots that make no sense, and all the rest.
August 21, 2026
Final Rating: 3.23/5.00
Starting score: 2.50
+0.22 for showing adventuring power through Earth's ordinary people and economy.
+0.16 for giving the publicity tour concrete institutional and personal purposes.
+0.27 for demon politics built around obligations, patronage, and competing loyalties.
+0.22 for tactical teamwork and inventive applications of established abilities.
+0.17 for making detection the beginning of the infection problem rather than its solution.
+0.16 for body horror grounded in the loss of control over one's own identity.
+0.18 for Bellaire's professional agency and developing place in Ken's life.
+0.14 for Crimson confronting limits to her strength and protective role.
+0.10 for explicit intimacy with physical development and affectionate context.
+0.14 for quiet care and meaningful concern about the victims of infection.
-0.20 for repeated explanations, debriefs, and conversations that stall movement.
-0.17 for extended jokes that interrupt danger and weaken its emotional weight.
-0.17 for the insufficiently examined ethics of Ken's political killing.
-0.10 for uneven attention to established romantic partners.
-0.08 for repeatedly returning Helen to the same humiliation cycle.
-0.09 for leaving numerical progression poorly documented.
-0.07 for verified errors in rank attribution and narrative viewpoint.
-0.15 for an abrupt ending with too little immediate aftermath.
Calculated final score: 3.23/5.00
I like the widening world here, and I'm frustrated by how often the story talks past the moment when it should move. Ken's growing usefulness draws him into publicity, demon politics, and a threat that can turn a familiar face into something dangerous. Those connections give this installment purpose beyond keeping its hero busy. My ears come forward when strength stops being a private achievement and starts carrying obligations to people outside his immediate pack. They flatten when another serious situation becomes an excuse for familiar teasing or another explanation of something already established. This audiobook gives me more interest in the world than satisfaction with the volume's finish. It remains insistently sexual: innuendo runs throughout, there is a sustained explicit encounter, and other intimacy is abbreviated or left offstage. Much of the story's attention goes to reputation, political dependence, and infection. I welcome that expansion, but the execution repeatedly wastes opportunities to let its consequences settle.
The publicity tour has a credible reason to exist. Falling enrolment matters to Haylon, the threadspawn make unrestricted diving dangerous, and Ken has personal reasons to keep some distance from the demons taking an interest in him. His discomfort also makes sense. He measures a useful day in training and progress, while a successful interview requires him to manage somebody else's interpretation of his life. Bellaire's explanation that a host wants an engaging reaction exposes a kind of combat his blades cannot solve. Questions about family, privilege, and risk can hurt without taking a single point of health. I particularly value the distinction between reassuring an audience and speaking honestly about a disaster. There is pressure to turn death into something marketable, and Ken sometimes recognizes how ugly that is. My Alpha's chest tightens around that question of responsibility: if people follow your tracks into danger, the image you sell them matters. The tour earns its place through that pressure.
Earth also gives Ken's strength a scale that another dungeon floor couldn't provide. Ordinary people work around the dungeon, earn their living from shallow dives, and have reasons to want levels that aren't about becoming legendary. Money can purchase opportunities, including access to longer life, which gives the rich a very practical interest in powerful adventurers. That detail makes the setting feel inhabited. I like how a civilian perspective turns Ken's familiar fighting style into something almost incomprehensible. Skills that seem routine beside Crimson look terrifying beside a person who couldn't survive a fraction of that violence. The gap changes how I understand the hero's position: he has grown enough to become somebody else's overwhelming force. My fur bristles at the mixture of admiration and helplessness in that arrangement. Celebrity grows around real protection, but it also grows around the knowledge that ordinary people have very little say when someone this powerful decides to act.
The demon hierarchy is the richest expansion. Strength creates rank, but rank also creates obligations, rivalries, and reasons to cultivate someone else's future success. I find Lady Frey interesting because her help has a price that can be discussed, negotiated, and collected. Ken has to think about service, resources, and the value of his time. His usefulness gives him bargaining power while leaving him vulnerable to people who understand the game far better. The distinction between formal allegiance and loyalty to one's own demonic race adds another layer: a superior can support your advancement while knowing that advancement may eventually take you elsewhere. That is fertile ground for politics. From my frozen corner of HowlStrom, I recognize the danger in protection that quietly becomes possession. My answer is simple: “Read the terms before you call the collar a gift.” The demons' attention feels consequential because admiration and exploitation occupy the same conversation. Ken gains access to a larger world, and that world immediately finds uses for him.
Eyes of Wisdom becomes central to those uses. Ken employs it to hunt infected people, inspect groups, check someone before trusting them, and demonstrate his value to powers beyond humanity. Crimson uses it too. What interests me is how often finding a worm leaves the difficult decisions untouched. Identifying an infected host doesn't tell Ken how to save that person, whether he can defeat them, or whom he can safely involve. Coercion also reaches people without requiring infection, so a clean scan cannot establish that an institution is functioning honestly. That gives the ability a useful place in the conflict. The threadspawn themselves have a more intimate menace than another enemy army: the body remains recognizable while its ownership is in doubt. My hackles rise at the thought of somebody from the pack still being inside, unable to answer. The horror comes from that violation, from the uncertainty over rescue, and from the possibility that familiar safeguards against death may fail. It makes protection harder than killing everything that moves.
The fights still depend on an active system. Stacks, cooldowns, healing, interruptions, positioning, and the difference between disabling a host and destroying a parasite all affect what the group can do. Portals become especially satisfying tools because their uses expand beyond convenient travel. Separating an opponent from support can matter more than another burst of damage. The party also has work Ken cannot simply replace: Penny creates room to survive, Charlotte keeps that survival possible, and the others contribute control, damage, or an observation that changes the approach. I enjoy seeing the pack solve a fight together, particularly when an established property becomes useful in a different context. Numerical progression is much less satisfying. Ken's training obsession receives plenty of attention, but a full status update and clearly recorded gains do not follow it. His level is mentioned, and relative strength matters, yet sustained effort rarely gets a precise accounting. I want enough numbers to judge the distance travelled. Without that, some of the promised growth remains something the story tells me to expect.
Crimson benefits from meeting power she cannot automatically dominate. Her pride, competitiveness, and need to protect Ken begin pulling in different directions. I find that more interesting than another demonstration that everyone else should fear her. The work she does against the infection also leaves her tired and stretched, and there is something recognizably painful in wanting to be available to the person you love while other responsibilities keep demanding you. I understand that burden in my Alpha's bones. Her reaction to Ken seeking stronger help exposes how much of her identity rests on being the one who can handle everything. That gives the relationship a useful pressure point: Ken needs room to make decisions, and Crimson needs a place beside him that doesn't depend on always being the strongest person present. Their training still carries affection and shared ambition. The moments when her confidence has to accommodate uncertainty give that bond more substance than another possessive warning could.
Bellaire earns her increased importance through competence. She understands the public world Ken struggles with, prepares him for it, and does work behind the scenes before he knows a problem exists. Her usefulness has an identity of its own. I also like that she wants strength without suddenly acquiring a dungeon addict's priorities. Training can mean safety, longevity, and being able to stand among the people whose interests she represents. Those are coherent ambitions. The relationship develops around negotiated time, attention, and belonging, with quieter conversations giving her something to want beyond the next professional success. Des's early insistence that Ken needs emotional investment makes the question of motives explicit, and Bellaire gradually becomes more than the woman managing his appointments. My tail warms to that kind of integration into a pack. A new partner should have a life to bring through the den's door. Bellaire has a profession, preferences, and reasons to stay, which makes her presence more convincing than attraction alone would have done.
The erotic writing gives me a genuine payoff in its sustained explicit scene. It develops physically, lets the participants respond to one another, and begins from care after a violent experience. That affectionate context matters to me because I want the people to remain present inside the sex. I want a good book and good porn, with enough attention given to both that neither becomes an empty promise. Here, one substantial encounter carries most of the fully developed erotic weight, while there is much more teasing, suggestive contact, and intimacy summarized outside the scene. The sexual atmosphere is therefore much more constant than the detailed sex itself. I like the encounter's combination of warmth and desire, but the surrounding innuendo cannot provide the same depth for the rest of the relationships. Another bedroom joke doesn't tell me what an established lover needs from Ken. My wolf heart wants the affection to have individual faces, and the explicit material is strongest when those faces remain clear.
The existing romantic circle gets uneven space. Penny and Charlotte contribute practical judgment, and I appreciate their willingness to question a decision or identify what needs doing. Felin also has real tactical value and a useful capacity to see something the others have missed. I want more of that mind and less of the repeated cream routine. Her ears, tail, appetite, and attachment to Ken's scent can be endearing, but returning to the same cluster of traits keeps narrowing her. As a furry, I want the person inside the familiar gestures to have room. Fayeth and Ely receive very little substantial attention here, and the increasing size of Ken's life makes that absence more conspicuous. The story can spend a long time on social chatter while relationships with their own histories survive on brief acknowledgement. My concern is the loss of individual emotional movement. Being included in the harem's headcount doesn't give a partner a developing place in the story.
Helen's treatment remains particularly tiresome. There are moments that show what a better version of this dynamic could offer: she helps Ken through an intrusive interview question, recognizes obligations between them, and has worthwhile things to say about dungeon strategy. Then the familiar machinery starts again. Her mother pressures and embarrasses her, Des prods her, and another exchange returns her to the role of the angry girl who won't accept what others want for her. My ears pin back at how readily her discomfort becomes communal entertainment. The problem is the loop. Recognition between two classmates should be able to change their next conversation; instead, the relationship keeps snapping back to its default quarrel. I want Helen to make meaningful choices about her own loyalties and desires. The repeated effort to push her toward a predetermined romantic answer makes those possibilities feel smaller.
There is tenderness elsewhere that deserves its own weight. Ken and Des can lie together after disturbing events without sex becoming the required next step. Penny asks whether they have done the right thing. Ken's concern for infected people leads him to seek information about a cure, even when doing so is inconvenient and politically unwelcome. Those moments reach the part of me that understands an Alpha's duty as staying with suffering rather than merely winning the fight. The political killings expose a serious weakness in that moral portrait, though. Ken accepts work against a rival without establishing wrongdoing that would justify the killing, and his professionalism becomes part of the satisfaction. The family background invoked around him involves checking corrupt adventurers; the new assignment is about advancement within somebody else's hierarchy. Charlotte's recognition that the dungeon has hardened them acknowledges a change, but the story gives that change too little examination. Loyalty to my Ice Wolf Clan doesn't make every outsider disposable. “Whose life are those fangs defending?” is the question I want Ken to face. I can follow a protagonist into moral compromise. I need the narrative to understand how far his paws have crossed the line. The care shown toward infected strangers makes the casual treatment of political targets more conspicuous, and the congratulatory tone leaves that contradiction underdeveloped.
Repetition is the main reason the movement feels heavier than it should. Interviews establish the difficulties of public presentation, then later conversations revisit those difficulties. The confrontation with the UG is followed by more discussion of what the UG can or cannot do to Ken. The demon arrangement is explained, reported to the group, and discussed again. Some new information arrives, but too many exchanges spend their first stretch catching up with what is already clear. As a listener, I want the conversation to reach the next consequence. The gap between Ken's craving for action and the story's willingness to linger becomes frustrating rather than revealing. A firmer cut would preserve the enjoyable differences between public appearances, domestic life, and political negotiation while removing the repeated setup. My paws don't need to follow the same tracks across the snow just because a different character is now asking where they lead.
The “game of thrones” television joke fits the succession politics. Extended jokes during emergencies create a different problem. Heather's childhood anecdote during the New York emergency takes attention away from people in immediate peril. Later, a threat becomes an elaborate argument about a family connection while the story is building toward serious violence. Playful familiarity suits these characters, but the length and placement of those exchanges drain urgency. I want to growl, “Let the danger keep its teeth.” The novel can make the threadspawn invasive and frightening, then use the surrounding scene as a platform for another comic exchange. That leaves the emotional pressure repeatedly starting over. There are also concrete editing slips in the writing: a demon princess is briefly identified as “the queen” during a conversation in which she refers to her own queen, and a return to Ken's narration starts by naming him in the third person before continuing in the first. Those errors blur rank and viewpoint in a story where both distinctions matter.
The closing action brings earlier knowledge and the party's different abilities into play, which gives the immediate struggle a sense of earned problem-solving. The stopping point then denies that work enough aftermath. An urgent personal situation remains in motion when the book ends, with too little space to establish its human consequences. The larger institutional questions also carry forward, so the finish feels especially abrupt after all the time available for repeated conversations earlier. I want an ending to let me feel what the pack has carried home, even when the wider threat continues. This volume expands Ken's world, gives his usefulness a political cost, and makes rescue a difficult obligation. It also spends too much time repeating itself and too little time confronting some of its own choices. The strongest scenes have the bite and warmth I want from this series. Too much of the surrounding story keeps circling, and the final tracks disappear into the next volume before the snow has settled.
Starting score: 2.50
+0.22 for showing adventuring power through Earth's ordinary people and economy.
+0.16 for giving the publicity tour concrete institutional and personal purposes.
+0.27 for demon politics built around obligations, patronage, and competing loyalties.
+0.22 for tactical teamwork and inventive applications of established abilities.
+0.17 for making detection the beginning of the infection problem rather than its solution.
+0.16 for body horror grounded in the loss of control over one's own identity.
+0.18 for Bellaire's professional agency and developing place in Ken's life.
+0.14 for Crimson confronting limits to her strength and protective role.
+0.10 for explicit intimacy with physical development and affectionate context.
+0.14 for quiet care and meaningful concern about the victims of infection.
-0.20 for repeated explanations, debriefs, and conversations that stall movement.
-0.17 for extended jokes that interrupt danger and weaken its emotional weight.
-0.17 for the insufficiently examined ethics of Ken's political killing.
-0.10 for uneven attention to established romantic partners.
-0.08 for repeatedly returning Helen to the same humiliation cycle.
-0.09 for leaving numerical progression poorly documented.
-0.07 for verified errors in rank attribution and narrative viewpoint.
-0.15 for an abrupt ending with too little immediate aftermath.
Calculated final score: 3.23/5.00
I like the widening world here, and I'm frustrated by how often the story talks past the moment when it should move. Ken's growing usefulness draws him into publicity, demon politics, and a threat that can turn a familiar face into something dangerous. Those connections give this installment purpose beyond keeping its hero busy. My ears come forward when strength stops being a private achievement and starts carrying obligations to people outside his immediate pack. They flatten when another serious situation becomes an excuse for familiar teasing or another explanation of something already established. This audiobook gives me more interest in the world than satisfaction with the volume's finish. It remains insistently sexual: innuendo runs throughout, there is a sustained explicit encounter, and other intimacy is abbreviated or left offstage. Much of the story's attention goes to reputation, political dependence, and infection. I welcome that expansion, but the execution repeatedly wastes opportunities to let its consequences settle.
The publicity tour has a credible reason to exist. Falling enrolment matters to Haylon, the threadspawn make unrestricted diving dangerous, and Ken has personal reasons to keep some distance from the demons taking an interest in him. His discomfort also makes sense. He measures a useful day in training and progress, while a successful interview requires him to manage somebody else's interpretation of his life. Bellaire's explanation that a host wants an engaging reaction exposes a kind of combat his blades cannot solve. Questions about family, privilege, and risk can hurt without taking a single point of health. I particularly value the distinction between reassuring an audience and speaking honestly about a disaster. There is pressure to turn death into something marketable, and Ken sometimes recognizes how ugly that is. My Alpha's chest tightens around that question of responsibility: if people follow your tracks into danger, the image you sell them matters. The tour earns its place through that pressure.
Earth also gives Ken's strength a scale that another dungeon floor couldn't provide. Ordinary people work around the dungeon, earn their living from shallow dives, and have reasons to want levels that aren't about becoming legendary. Money can purchase opportunities, including access to longer life, which gives the rich a very practical interest in powerful adventurers. That detail makes the setting feel inhabited. I like how a civilian perspective turns Ken's familiar fighting style into something almost incomprehensible. Skills that seem routine beside Crimson look terrifying beside a person who couldn't survive a fraction of that violence. The gap changes how I understand the hero's position: he has grown enough to become somebody else's overwhelming force. My fur bristles at the mixture of admiration and helplessness in that arrangement. Celebrity grows around real protection, but it also grows around the knowledge that ordinary people have very little say when someone this powerful decides to act.
The demon hierarchy is the richest expansion. Strength creates rank, but rank also creates obligations, rivalries, and reasons to cultivate someone else's future success. I find Lady Frey interesting because her help has a price that can be discussed, negotiated, and collected. Ken has to think about service, resources, and the value of his time. His usefulness gives him bargaining power while leaving him vulnerable to people who understand the game far better. The distinction between formal allegiance and loyalty to one's own demonic race adds another layer: a superior can support your advancement while knowing that advancement may eventually take you elsewhere. That is fertile ground for politics. From my frozen corner of HowlStrom, I recognize the danger in protection that quietly becomes possession. My answer is simple: “Read the terms before you call the collar a gift.” The demons' attention feels consequential because admiration and exploitation occupy the same conversation. Ken gains access to a larger world, and that world immediately finds uses for him.
Eyes of Wisdom becomes central to those uses. Ken employs it to hunt infected people, inspect groups, check someone before trusting them, and demonstrate his value to powers beyond humanity. Crimson uses it too. What interests me is how often finding a worm leaves the difficult decisions untouched. Identifying an infected host doesn't tell Ken how to save that person, whether he can defeat them, or whom he can safely involve. Coercion also reaches people without requiring infection, so a clean scan cannot establish that an institution is functioning honestly. That gives the ability a useful place in the conflict. The threadspawn themselves have a more intimate menace than another enemy army: the body remains recognizable while its ownership is in doubt. My hackles rise at the thought of somebody from the pack still being inside, unable to answer. The horror comes from that violation, from the uncertainty over rescue, and from the possibility that familiar safeguards against death may fail. It makes protection harder than killing everything that moves.
The fights still depend on an active system. Stacks, cooldowns, healing, interruptions, positioning, and the difference between disabling a host and destroying a parasite all affect what the group can do. Portals become especially satisfying tools because their uses expand beyond convenient travel. Separating an opponent from support can matter more than another burst of damage. The party also has work Ken cannot simply replace: Penny creates room to survive, Charlotte keeps that survival possible, and the others contribute control, damage, or an observation that changes the approach. I enjoy seeing the pack solve a fight together, particularly when an established property becomes useful in a different context. Numerical progression is much less satisfying. Ken's training obsession receives plenty of attention, but a full status update and clearly recorded gains do not follow it. His level is mentioned, and relative strength matters, yet sustained effort rarely gets a precise accounting. I want enough numbers to judge the distance travelled. Without that, some of the promised growth remains something the story tells me to expect.
Crimson benefits from meeting power she cannot automatically dominate. Her pride, competitiveness, and need to protect Ken begin pulling in different directions. I find that more interesting than another demonstration that everyone else should fear her. The work she does against the infection also leaves her tired and stretched, and there is something recognizably painful in wanting to be available to the person you love while other responsibilities keep demanding you. I understand that burden in my Alpha's bones. Her reaction to Ken seeking stronger help exposes how much of her identity rests on being the one who can handle everything. That gives the relationship a useful pressure point: Ken needs room to make decisions, and Crimson needs a place beside him that doesn't depend on always being the strongest person present. Their training still carries affection and shared ambition. The moments when her confidence has to accommodate uncertainty give that bond more substance than another possessive warning could.
Bellaire earns her increased importance through competence. She understands the public world Ken struggles with, prepares him for it, and does work behind the scenes before he knows a problem exists. Her usefulness has an identity of its own. I also like that she wants strength without suddenly acquiring a dungeon addict's priorities. Training can mean safety, longevity, and being able to stand among the people whose interests she represents. Those are coherent ambitions. The relationship develops around negotiated time, attention, and belonging, with quieter conversations giving her something to want beyond the next professional success. Des's early insistence that Ken needs emotional investment makes the question of motives explicit, and Bellaire gradually becomes more than the woman managing his appointments. My tail warms to that kind of integration into a pack. A new partner should have a life to bring through the den's door. Bellaire has a profession, preferences, and reasons to stay, which makes her presence more convincing than attraction alone would have done.
The erotic writing gives me a genuine payoff in its sustained explicit scene. It develops physically, lets the participants respond to one another, and begins from care after a violent experience. That affectionate context matters to me because I want the people to remain present inside the sex. I want a good book and good porn, with enough attention given to both that neither becomes an empty promise. Here, one substantial encounter carries most of the fully developed erotic weight, while there is much more teasing, suggestive contact, and intimacy summarized outside the scene. The sexual atmosphere is therefore much more constant than the detailed sex itself. I like the encounter's combination of warmth and desire, but the surrounding innuendo cannot provide the same depth for the rest of the relationships. Another bedroom joke doesn't tell me what an established lover needs from Ken. My wolf heart wants the affection to have individual faces, and the explicit material is strongest when those faces remain clear.
The existing romantic circle gets uneven space. Penny and Charlotte contribute practical judgment, and I appreciate their willingness to question a decision or identify what needs doing. Felin also has real tactical value and a useful capacity to see something the others have missed. I want more of that mind and less of the repeated cream routine. Her ears, tail, appetite, and attachment to Ken's scent can be endearing, but returning to the same cluster of traits keeps narrowing her. As a furry, I want the person inside the familiar gestures to have room. Fayeth and Ely receive very little substantial attention here, and the increasing size of Ken's life makes that absence more conspicuous. The story can spend a long time on social chatter while relationships with their own histories survive on brief acknowledgement. My concern is the loss of individual emotional movement. Being included in the harem's headcount doesn't give a partner a developing place in the story.
Helen's treatment remains particularly tiresome. There are moments that show what a better version of this dynamic could offer: she helps Ken through an intrusive interview question, recognizes obligations between them, and has worthwhile things to say about dungeon strategy. Then the familiar machinery starts again. Her mother pressures and embarrasses her, Des prods her, and another exchange returns her to the role of the angry girl who won't accept what others want for her. My ears pin back at how readily her discomfort becomes communal entertainment. The problem is the loop. Recognition between two classmates should be able to change their next conversation; instead, the relationship keeps snapping back to its default quarrel. I want Helen to make meaningful choices about her own loyalties and desires. The repeated effort to push her toward a predetermined romantic answer makes those possibilities feel smaller.
There is tenderness elsewhere that deserves its own weight. Ken and Des can lie together after disturbing events without sex becoming the required next step. Penny asks whether they have done the right thing. Ken's concern for infected people leads him to seek information about a cure, even when doing so is inconvenient and politically unwelcome. Those moments reach the part of me that understands an Alpha's duty as staying with suffering rather than merely winning the fight. The political killings expose a serious weakness in that moral portrait, though. Ken accepts work against a rival without establishing wrongdoing that would justify the killing, and his professionalism becomes part of the satisfaction. The family background invoked around him involves checking corrupt adventurers; the new assignment is about advancement within somebody else's hierarchy. Charlotte's recognition that the dungeon has hardened them acknowledges a change, but the story gives that change too little examination. Loyalty to my Ice Wolf Clan doesn't make every outsider disposable. “Whose life are those fangs defending?” is the question I want Ken to face. I can follow a protagonist into moral compromise. I need the narrative to understand how far his paws have crossed the line. The care shown toward infected strangers makes the casual treatment of political targets more conspicuous, and the congratulatory tone leaves that contradiction underdeveloped.
Repetition is the main reason the movement feels heavier than it should. Interviews establish the difficulties of public presentation, then later conversations revisit those difficulties. The confrontation with the UG is followed by more discussion of what the UG can or cannot do to Ken. The demon arrangement is explained, reported to the group, and discussed again. Some new information arrives, but too many exchanges spend their first stretch catching up with what is already clear. As a listener, I want the conversation to reach the next consequence. The gap between Ken's craving for action and the story's willingness to linger becomes frustrating rather than revealing. A firmer cut would preserve the enjoyable differences between public appearances, domestic life, and political negotiation while removing the repeated setup. My paws don't need to follow the same tracks across the snow just because a different character is now asking where they lead.
The “game of thrones” television joke fits the succession politics. Extended jokes during emergencies create a different problem. Heather's childhood anecdote during the New York emergency takes attention away from people in immediate peril. Later, a threat becomes an elaborate argument about a family connection while the story is building toward serious violence. Playful familiarity suits these characters, but the length and placement of those exchanges drain urgency. I want to growl, “Let the danger keep its teeth.” The novel can make the threadspawn invasive and frightening, then use the surrounding scene as a platform for another comic exchange. That leaves the emotional pressure repeatedly starting over. There are also concrete editing slips in the writing: a demon princess is briefly identified as “the queen” during a conversation in which she refers to her own queen, and a return to Ken's narration starts by naming him in the third person before continuing in the first. Those errors blur rank and viewpoint in a story where both distinctions matter.
The closing action brings earlier knowledge and the party's different abilities into play, which gives the immediate struggle a sense of earned problem-solving. The stopping point then denies that work enough aftermath. An urgent personal situation remains in motion when the book ends, with too little space to establish its human consequences. The larger institutional questions also carry forward, so the finish feels especially abrupt after all the time available for repeated conversations earlier. I want an ending to let me feel what the pack has carried home, even when the wider threat continues. This volume expands Ken's world, gives his usefulness a political cost, and makes rescue a difficult obligation. It also spends too much time repeating itself and too little time confronting some of its own choices. The strongest scenes have the bite and warmth I want from this series. Too much of the surrounding story keeps circling, and the final tracks disappear into the next volume before the snow has settled.
December 18, 2025
Not really litrpg anymore
I think a referenced to his lvl being 52 without any other character details the entire book is not litrpg. You could argue it is, however, the whole series points out how lvl doesn't mean your stats are there. Idk if it's the speed or what but the last two books kinda seem phoned in. Like I loved the demon and thread guys story but like how are other races just popping up on earth with no warning? Like there are guards etc and the main branches are pretty well traveled but somehow zero warning came out before the dwarf attack? The PR stuff didn't mesh either imo like it was okay but since when did colleges get to volunteer you for stuff like that. You could maybe say 'Crimson' but really why would any of the actual mcs care if there are less divers for a few years. I think there was like 0.5 sex scenes and rest ftb. Additionally, I have a super 2 of a kind ability to detect infiltrates...think I'll randomly use my ability when I feel like it...idk it's just feeling really lazy ATM not litrpg, illogical plot holes, no sex scenes...and I still gave it a 3 just need more time to edit and add some elements back into the books
I think a referenced to his lvl being 52 without any other character details the entire book is not litrpg. You could argue it is, however, the whole series points out how lvl doesn't mean your stats are there. Idk if it's the speed or what but the last two books kinda seem phoned in. Like I loved the demon and thread guys story but like how are other races just popping up on earth with no warning? Like there are guards etc and the main branches are pretty well traveled but somehow zero warning came out before the dwarf attack? The PR stuff didn't mesh either imo like it was okay but since when did colleges get to volunteer you for stuff like that. You could maybe say 'Crimson' but really why would any of the actual mcs care if there are less divers for a few years. I think there was like 0.5 sex scenes and rest ftb. Additionally, I have a super 2 of a kind ability to detect infiltrates...think I'll randomly use my ability when I feel like it...idk it's just feeling really lazy ATM not litrpg, illogical plot holes, no sex scenes...and I still gave it a 3 just need more time to edit and add some elements back into the books
December 11, 2025
It’s Pretty Good Stuff
Welp another good one from Bruce.
Lots to love in this book.
Good pacing, good character development, interesting new/continuing plot points and good world building.
I will admit that I’m still not a particularly big fan of the whole mind control parasite things, it’s kinda very icky (at least for me) and something I hope will eventually shift away from soonish. Or at least morph into revealing that they are their own bigger species without needing hosts.
Bruce writes it very well to the point I’m still game to read it atm but it’s normally something I steer well clear of.
A brighter thing is liking the trial abilities and seeing more get that. Looking forward to seeing that develop.
Also curious to see if Ken will get a second one?
As far as I remember it’s never been said that you can’t have more than one, and I’m pretty sure that I do remember in another book it being mentioned that some of the greatest divers of the other races had figures that achieved multiple trials. It would be interesting if they maybe essentially speed ran to get trial abilities to help deal with this parasite plot more quickly? Also moves up the dungeon lore which I find incredibly interesting and hoping that it will get developed further along with Ken’s class. It seemed to be made a bit of a big deal earlier and would be interesting to see it developed more too.
Anyway this review went onto a bit of a ramble but long story short, it’s another great entry and looking forward to the next one.
Welp another good one from Bruce.
Lots to love in this book.
Good pacing, good character development, interesting new/continuing plot points and good world building.
I will admit that I’m still not a particularly big fan of the whole mind control parasite things, it’s kinda very icky (at least for me) and something I hope will eventually shift away from soonish. Or at least morph into revealing that they are their own bigger species without needing hosts.
Bruce writes it very well to the point I’m still game to read it atm but it’s normally something I steer well clear of.
A brighter thing is liking the trial abilities and seeing more get that. Looking forward to seeing that develop.
Also curious to see if Ken will get a second one?
As far as I remember it’s never been said that you can’t have more than one, and I’m pretty sure that I do remember in another book it being mentioned that some of the greatest divers of the other races had figures that achieved multiple trials. It would be interesting if they maybe essentially speed ran to get trial abilities to help deal with this parasite plot more quickly? Also moves up the dungeon lore which I find incredibly interesting and hoping that it will get developed further along with Ken’s class. It seemed to be made a bit of a big deal earlier and would be interesting to see it developed more too.
Anyway this review went onto a bit of a ramble but long story short, it’s another great entry and looking forward to the next one.
December 17, 2025
Ken felt marginally and intermittently more competent this time, as he for better or worse at least tries to solve his own problems. Unfortunately, we get no sense of his overall progression as the author doesn’t share a status update for him, like ever, and we only know he is level 52 because a demon mentions it. I’m unclear whether he gained a single level in this book. Instead, we focus on hunting worms and forgetting his older (and better) love interests. The main antagonist, being the Threadspawn, is really a disappointment as it is taking way too much time to solve and is undermining what could have been more interesting encounters with the "deeper races". I had high hopes for Ken’s early encounters with the Demon Hierarchy. Sadly battling parasites is just never a good long-term plot in my opinion, and why he wasn’t using Eyes of Wisdom from the get-go to eradicate them, I will never understand. Since there seems to be no limit to this overpowered ability, it seems ludicrous that he seemingly forgets about it (instead of using it 24/7). He instead slows the momentum by moralizing and searching for hypothetical solutions as he puts everyone he loves at risk.
February 2, 2026
The beginning of this 10th volume is awful: it's completely pointless, and I don't know how the author could have thought that organizing a media tour would be of any use whatsoever in the context of this series. Except, of course, to make room for the hero's attractive publicist. In short, it's utterly pointless, unless you have trouble falling asleep.
After this ordeal, the book picks up a bit with the demons and the Threadspawn (that parasitic species that plagues the dungeon). The plot progresses, some scenes are well-written, and the end of the novel isn't as tedious as its beginning.
However, I'm only giving this installment one star (instead of two) to protest the complete abandonment of the LitRPG elements in this 10th volume. I don't understand how an adventure that began with character stats sheets every 10 pages can so completely abandon its basic principles: in this 10th installment, we never once see a character's stats sheet, and while levels are mentioned here and there in passing, it's often with a nonchalance bordering on contempt.
Bruce Sentar is an author who has talent for starting his series, but even more talent for torpedoing them over time.
After this ordeal, the book picks up a bit with the demons and the Threadspawn (that parasitic species that plagues the dungeon). The plot progresses, some scenes are well-written, and the end of the novel isn't as tedious as its beginning.
However, I'm only giving this installment one star (instead of two) to protest the complete abandonment of the LitRPG elements in this 10th volume. I don't understand how an adventure that began with character stats sheets every 10 pages can so completely abandon its basic principles: in this 10th installment, we never once see a character's stats sheet, and while levels are mentioned here and there in passing, it's often with a nonchalance bordering on contempt.
Bruce Sentar is an author who has talent for starting his series, but even more talent for torpedoing them over time.
December 18, 2025
Fun new ways to test our characters
This book does a good job of shaking up the story. After many books of school-focused stories and a couple in the dungeon, we return to Earth and the everyday world to see how far our characters have come.
The world building remains fantastic, with many interesting threads developing simultaneously.
The existing romantic relationships are less dramatic and more stable than before, but are nonetheless fun. As a side benefit, non-romantic relationships also get a bit more time. Sadly, the clan is still sidelined for the most part, but the UG and Harem Queen both provide interesting perspectives.
I'm definitely looking forward to the next one.
This book does a good job of shaking up the story. After many books of school-focused stories and a couple in the dungeon, we return to Earth and the everyday world to see how far our characters have come.
The world building remains fantastic, with many interesting threads developing simultaneously.
The existing romantic relationships are less dramatic and more stable than before, but are nonetheless fun. As a side benefit, non-romantic relationships also get a bit more time. Sadly, the clan is still sidelined for the most part, but the UG and Harem Queen both provide interesting perspectives.
I'm definitely looking forward to the next one.
December 25, 2025
There was a new woman added to the harem. She was introduced several books ago. She was hired as the public relations representative for the Silver Fangs. With the big shakeup that the dungeon had the year before in the book and the discovery of the worms (Threadspawn) that can take over a persons body there has been a drop off in the amount of people who want to become dungeon explorers. The United Guild (UG)and the Haylon academy decide that sending Ken and Des on a publicity tour is just what is needed. That is where the PR lady is needed. The Threadspawn threat has everyone on edge because it seems that no group of people are immune. The Demon kingdom is also concerned and they go checking everyone and trying to purge the worms from their ranks. This leads one of the demon lords to come to Star City where Ken has been masquerading as an Incubus. This leads to further complications that will be addressed in future books.
December 16, 2025
Good book!!!
Loved the book!!! But, it was short! Or, at least, it seemed that way to me! 😕😔😕😔 Maybe, try making it longer!!? Make the book encompass more of the story? The story about the threadspawn is creepy as hell!! And the solution they ended up eventually using seemed kind of obvious. Of course, that is from the readers point of view. But, overall, the storyline so far in this book is good. I do not think I would be able to put up with the whole pr thing. No, I know I wouldn't!! That shit can get insane!!! But, the battle in New York was awesome!!!!
Loved the book!!! But, it was short! Or, at least, it seemed that way to me! 😕😔😕😔 Maybe, try making it longer!!? Make the book encompass more of the story? The story about the threadspawn is creepy as hell!! And the solution they ended up eventually using seemed kind of obvious. Of course, that is from the readers point of view. But, overall, the storyline so far in this book is good. I do not think I would be able to put up with the whole pr thing. No, I know I wouldn't!! That shit can get insane!!! But, the battle in New York was awesome!!!!
December 21, 2025
Continuing to follow along as our hero gains info and explores the dungeon. But there wasn't really much dungeon this book. The development of Bell was good and sort of expected. The development of the demon situation was about what seemed likely. The threadspawn sort of picked up powers quick and I'm not sure everything holds together, but it wasn't terrible - but I'd be using my special power way more to just be ahead of this thing. Sort of felt forced with the break apart of work with the top guy.
January 27, 2026
Not your aversge dungeon
Thanks for taking the genre of dungeon lit and expanding it somewhere interesting. Actually several somewheres interesting. This is World building that generally is lacking in Dungeon themed literature and I really appreciate pushing the boundaries of where the story happens how it happens the different people's the constructs and the various challenges and difficulties it makes for a great read. I've been along so far in the series and I'm looking forward to seeing how the ark plays out. Good work deep writing.
Thanks for taking the genre of dungeon lit and expanding it somewhere interesting. Actually several somewheres interesting. This is World building that generally is lacking in Dungeon themed literature and I really appreciate pushing the boundaries of where the story happens how it happens the different people's the constructs and the various challenges and difficulties it makes for a great read. I've been along so far in the series and I'm looking forward to seeing how the ark plays out. Good work deep writing.
December 16, 2025
The early bird catches... well, you know
Alternate universe, LitRPG, leveling, dungeon diving, fantasy races, harem adult situations
Things ramp up for Ken and the ladies of Haylon – threadspawn, devils, and PR tours, oh my! The cover shows Bellaire, the newest lady to join Ken between the sheets. The action is non-stop as the stacks increase. Excellent editing. Now to wait until the next book release! Argh!
Alternate universe, LitRPG, leveling, dungeon diving, fantasy races, harem adult situations
Things ramp up for Ken and the ladies of Haylon – threadspawn, devils, and PR tours, oh my! The cover shows Bellaire, the newest lady to join Ken between the sheets. The action is non-stop as the stacks increase. Excellent editing. Now to wait until the next book release! Argh!
December 22, 2025
It's good
If you like the previous books in the series, you're going to enjoy this one. If you didn't, you're not going to a new girls added to his Entourage plenty of battles. Plenty of fights. New faction is fleshed out more. Can't go into any more detail than that than and not run the plot. I apologize for any spelling errors. I'm writing this review of voice to text. Hope it helps
If you like the previous books in the series, you're going to enjoy this one. If you didn't, you're not going to a new girls added to his Entourage plenty of battles. Plenty of fights. New faction is fleshed out more. Can't go into any more detail than that than and not run the plot. I apologize for any spelling errors. I'm writing this review of voice to text. Hope it helps
January 5, 2026
Brilliant
Brilliant instalment to this great series. Still a great read and always look forward to reading the newest book in this series. Can't believe you ended it like that and that your having us wait so long to see what happens next. Keep up the good work and thanks for all your work. Don't worry about having to skip January as I'm sure we'd all like you to be happy with what you release and not stress your self releasing a book of it would put undue stress on yourself.
Brilliant instalment to this great series. Still a great read and always look forward to reading the newest book in this series. Can't believe you ended it like that and that your having us wait so long to see what happens next. Keep up the good work and thanks for all your work. Don't worry about having to skip January as I'm sure we'd all like you to be happy with what you release and not stress your self releasing a book of it would put undue stress on yourself.
July 28, 2026
I didn’t write reviews for the previous two books in the series, and I don’t have much to add about this one either, because it simply swept me away and carried me along without giving me much reason to be critical. It’s slowly becoming like an endless soap opera that somehow never grows stale. There’s always a new twist or an interesting character that emerges, keeping me engaged and eager to see what happens next.
August 8, 2026
Entertaining Series Continues
The last two books have been refreshing, as the author took the series in a new and, I think, better direction. There has been less focus on the harem and more on the newly emerging threats effecting the human world as never before. There is action aplenty with some characters, such as Bellaire and the Harem Queen, getting expanded involvement. Exciting!
The last two books have been refreshing, as the author took the series in a new and, I think, better direction. There has been less focus on the harem and more on the newly emerging threats effecting the human world as never before. There is action aplenty with some characters, such as Bellaire and the Harem Queen, getting expanded involvement. Exciting!
December 12, 2025
The plot thickens
Ooooh Sentar cooked an absolute BANGER with this one. The stakes grow more dire as our boi has to literally play a game of thrones to save his hide(and possibly grow even stronger) as well as play metal gear solid with his ug bosses. You can bet that the next book will get even more explosive as we see how the group grows further
Ooooh Sentar cooked an absolute BANGER with this one. The stakes grow more dire as our boi has to literally play a game of thrones to save his hide(and possibly grow even stronger) as well as play metal gear solid with his ug bosses. You can bet that the next book will get even more explosive as we see how the group grows further
December 13, 2025
Phenomenal read as always! Love the direction Sentar went with this series. He has many angles and routes he can work with and this is one of the most suspenseful and chilling reads of the series so far! I love the added stress that Ken and the group are having to work with on this new enemy. I won’t say more but well done!
December 17, 2025
Romance:
December 17, 2025
My absolute favorite series by this author!!!
This series is a great read! I know I'm going to laugh and cheer and just enjoy it from the first word to the last! That the enemy has found Earth is definitely going to be troubling but not near as hard the MC is going to have to work to stay on the Demons good side lol!!!
This series is a great read! I know I'm going to laugh and cheer and just enjoy it from the first word to the last! That the enemy has found Earth is definitely going to be troubling but not near as hard the MC is going to have to work to stay on the Demons good side lol!!!
December 30, 2025
More Boring than Usual
This book was far more boring than the others. The demon stuff is more fun and would have been even more fun if the author would have focused on the demon "Game of Thrones" instead of worms taking people over. I hope he moves past this arch soon cause it's really lame and doesn't have much potential.
This book was far more boring than the others. The demon stuff is more fun and would have been even more fun if the author would have focused on the demon "Game of Thrones" instead of worms taking people over. I hope he moves past this arch soon cause it's really lame and doesn't have much potential.
December 31, 2025
Continuity issues, book just ends
The story builds a scene and completely ignores what was previously written like there are multiple writers. Continuously used past tense words while speaking in present tense. There are more words that describe mobility than the incorrectly used "headed". Book just ends without a conclusion to the story.
The story builds a scene and completely ignores what was previously written like there are multiple writers. Continuously used past tense words while speaking in present tense. There are more words that describe mobility than the incorrectly used "headed". Book just ends without a conclusion to the story.
January 4, 2026
Another amazing job.
I really loved reading this book. It's one of my favorite series. The book was fun and engaging. The story and characters were incredibly interesting and entertaining. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next. This book and series are definitely worth checking out.
I really loved reading this book. It's one of my favorite series. The book was fun and engaging. The story and characters were incredibly interesting and entertaining. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next. This book and series are definitely worth checking out.
January 7, 2026
Well
It just keeps delivering. I did find myself questioning why Ken didn't use the sword of omens in the last battle when it had been prevalent in the other battles and why he never used metamorphosis. But maybe that's just the fan talking. Still a great series that I devour every new book as quickly as I can lay hands to it. Cheers
It just keeps delivering. I did find myself questioning why Ken didn't use the sword of omens in the last battle when it had been prevalent in the other battles and why he never used metamorphosis. But maybe that's just the fan talking. Still a great series that I devour every new book as quickly as I can lay hands to it. Cheers
February 21, 2026
great Series
Often when you read a series, especially one in a subcategory of Harem genre the story line gets stale ands on the carnal side of more and more explicit sex.
Not in Dungeon Diving, the plot actually thickens and the character development exceeds expectations!
Bravo Mr. Sentar, I look forward to more installments!
Often when you read a series, especially one in a subcategory of Harem genre the story line gets stale ands on the carnal side of more and more explicit sex.
Not in Dungeon Diving, the plot actually thickens and the character development exceeds expectations!
Bravo Mr. Sentar, I look forward to more installments!
May 7, 2026
I find i'm really not caring at all about this threadspawn threat that suddenly showed up last book and is now the major threat. Like, what happened to the Naga ffs? I like the demons, and their demon heirarchy though. I wonder if Ken will be able to add that succubus girl to his harem, probably not since she had a harem of her own.
December 12, 2025
Story continues on a great path
We get to a climax of the Threadspawn arc and possibly a solution. Great new characters and a new love interest. All in all a great continuation of the series.
We get to a climax of the Threadspawn arc and possibly a solution. Great new characters and a new love interest. All in all a great continuation of the series.
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