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Brutal Dungeon #1
Dungeon Captive
A Dark Fantasy Dungeon Core.
Edric is on the cusp of joining his dream Guild when everything goes wrong.
When he wakes up master of a dungeon, trapped where he can never be a member of the Guild he's been wanting to join since he was a child, he's full of frustration. The last thing he wants is to be stuck underground for the rest of his life, even if it is with a hot pixie whose will is his every command.
Only when he takes out that frustration on the first adventurers who wander into his new dungeon, it reveals a dark streak Edric didn't realize he had, and suddenly he's not so sure that being a dungeon master isn't what he was born to do after all.
Dungeon Captive is a work of fiction exploring what happens when a dark character takes power, not endorsing it. There's sex, violence, gore and profanity. Don't read if you trigger easily.
Edric is on the cusp of joining his dream Guild when everything goes wrong.
When he wakes up master of a dungeon, trapped where he can never be a member of the Guild he's been wanting to join since he was a child, he's full of frustration. The last thing he wants is to be stuck underground for the rest of his life, even if it is with a hot pixie whose will is his every command.
Only when he takes out that frustration on the first adventurers who wander into his new dungeon, it reveals a dark streak Edric didn't realize he had, and suddenly he's not so sure that being a dungeon master isn't what he was born to do after all.
Dungeon Captive is a work of fiction exploring what happens when a dark character takes power, not endorsing it. There's sex, violence, gore and profanity. Don't read if you trigger easily.
- GenresFantasy
69 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 21, 2019
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February 5, 2019
Horrible
The book itself is way to short to enjoy at all. There is no time to develop any plotlines and all the characters are awful. Nothing in it to recommend.
The book itself is way to short to enjoy at all. There is no time to develop any plotlines and all the characters are awful. Nothing in it to recommend.
January 27, 2019
Mechanical
This had all the character depth of an oil film on a puddle. Just recording verbatim a rather boring dungeon run without any real passion is not good litRPG. I did not care. There are few words more bleak than “dull”.
This had all the character depth of an oil film on a puddle. Just recording verbatim a rather boring dungeon run without any real passion is not good litRPG. I did not care. There are few words more bleak than “dull”.
August 1, 2020
Dungeon rapeist
I have had a problem with the sexual content of this series . A dungeon core promoting explicit sexual misconduct using daterape practices But in the 3rd book he literally joins in on a group rape.
I have had a problem with the sexual content of this series . A dungeon core promoting explicit sexual misconduct using daterape practices But in the 3rd book he literally joins in on a group rape.
July 7, 2022
This is actually less than 100 pages!! If that is even possible, it is more like a really really short story and since the Dungeon Core thinks only of sex, well it is lewd and very descriptive in the sexual liaisons that the Core has. Not much character or world development, just rough sex, so not that much fantasy or dungeon delving either...
July 5, 2025
Interesting idea, okay execution.
The main character is hard to relate to for me. But the premise and events were interesting. A few typos.
*Spoiler Warning*
An NTR warning would be nice. Also, I thought MC would be capturing people in the dungeon. Not him being the captive.
The drama with the adventure trio was fine and somewhat interesting, but there's no payoff here. The author speculates what might go down with trio after the fallout. But all we get is some arguing and meh fight scene. Then they leave.
In fact, besides some nice bedroom scenes. There's no payoff here. No goal was reached or hinted.
The hesitation scene where he was indecisive was hard to read. Again, maybe I missed the disclaimer, but when I read dark fantasy and brutal dungeon, this wasn't what I was expecting.
Authors need to get feedback. Test the waters. Someone should have told you that Dungeon captive, then a woman on the cover, implies a captive woman or a woman being captured. None of that happens here. Which is why I read in the first place.
Complaint 2: Why doesn't Ed have actual friends? He likes and likes him? The story just opens up with him at a bar with people who don't seem to care. We get some back story and characterization. But not enough to justify Al being portrayed as uncaring when he finds out that Ed is missing
3. At one point, saff says, "Al and I knew Ed liked me, but we didn't address. We were going to take it to the grave or wait till it blew up in our faces." She said that, and I laughed a bit, but not because it was funny but because it was so ridiculous to me.
These people clear dungeons together. A life or death thing. And they can't be honest with each other? I've never liked that trope. And I never will. "Friends for years, we fight monsters for a living and could die at ANY time, but we don't talk about the attraction because blahblah"
The author basically has Ed tramutized by saff in the beginning of the book, and later Ed does the same thing to someone else. Only for him to get mad it was to effective, over compensate to handle the situation only to make it worse, and Ed's takeaway is "I can't be sympathetic."
No, Ed. The takeaway is to commit to your actions and don't toy with people unless you can handle it. Also, dungeons that are level 4 shouldn't be focused on tormenting adventures. Wouldn't an unruly dungeon attract a party of powerful adventures to destroy your new weak core? But yeah, sure, keep on NTRr people then letting them leave after you show yourself. The key part is to show yourself, oh, and leave your monster guards behind so you're defenseless.
TLDR: Not terrible, not great, story wise. Lots of bedroom stuff. So, at least the reader gets some excitement. I hope if the author or someone who really likes this book reads my review knows that this is an opinion. Not a fact, and I wish everyone the best.
The main character is hard to relate to for me. But the premise and events were interesting. A few typos.
*Spoiler Warning*
An NTR warning would be nice. Also, I thought MC would be capturing people in the dungeon. Not him being the captive.
The drama with the adventure trio was fine and somewhat interesting, but there's no payoff here. The author speculates what might go down with trio after the fallout. But all we get is some arguing and meh fight scene. Then they leave.
In fact, besides some nice bedroom scenes. There's no payoff here. No goal was reached or hinted.
The hesitation scene where he was indecisive was hard to read. Again, maybe I missed the disclaimer, but when I read dark fantasy and brutal dungeon, this wasn't what I was expecting.
Authors need to get feedback. Test the waters. Someone should have told you that Dungeon captive, then a woman on the cover, implies a captive woman or a woman being captured. None of that happens here. Which is why I read in the first place.
Complaint 2: Why doesn't Ed have actual friends? He likes and likes him? The story just opens up with him at a bar with people who don't seem to care. We get some back story and characterization. But not enough to justify Al being portrayed as uncaring when he finds out that Ed is missing
3. At one point, saff says, "Al and I knew Ed liked me, but we didn't address. We were going to take it to the grave or wait till it blew up in our faces." She said that, and I laughed a bit, but not because it was funny but because it was so ridiculous to me.
These people clear dungeons together. A life or death thing. And they can't be honest with each other? I've never liked that trope. And I never will. "Friends for years, we fight monsters for a living and could die at ANY time, but we don't talk about the attraction because blahblah"
The author basically has Ed tramutized by saff in the beginning of the book, and later Ed does the same thing to someone else. Only for him to get mad it was to effective, over compensate to handle the situation only to make it worse, and Ed's takeaway is "I can't be sympathetic."
No, Ed. The takeaway is to commit to your actions and don't toy with people unless you can handle it. Also, dungeons that are level 4 shouldn't be focused on tormenting adventures. Wouldn't an unruly dungeon attract a party of powerful adventures to destroy your new weak core? But yeah, sure, keep on NTRr people then letting them leave after you show yourself. The key part is to show yourself, oh, and leave your monster guards behind so you're defenseless.
TLDR: Not terrible, not great, story wise. Lots of bedroom stuff. So, at least the reader gets some excitement. I hope if the author or someone who really likes this book reads my review knows that this is an opinion. Not a fact, and I wish everyone the best.
February 7, 2019
It is a short book which I don’t consider a bad thing. The dungeon system is odd which I found off putting. The main character is real to life which is a plus - all the characters have real human flaws. I felt it went a bit abrupt from “poor pitiful me wallow” to “I’m going to make everyone hurt because I’m hurt” to “but I didn’t really mean for it to happen.” I will read next book and see how the dark dungeon turns out.
February 6, 2019
Too short
A fairly decent attempt to imitate stuart Grosse and his lewd dungeon but it was too short and too flaccid a story. A puzzle dungeon is interesting but to get all upset because of how well your traps work is not something a dungeon should feel. I may try book 2 but I hope it's better than this
A fairly decent attempt to imitate stuart Grosse and his lewd dungeon but it was too short and too flaccid a story. A puzzle dungeon is interesting but to get all upset because of how well your traps work is not something a dungeon should feel. I may try book 2 but I hope it's better than this
January 23, 2019
A good start
A good start to a dungeon corps. A lot of the same tropes but they're all used well and the mc is interesting, albeit a little pitiable. Editing could use some work but nothing major. It was a quick read but in really enjoyed it.
A good start to a dungeon corps. A lot of the same tropes but they're all used well and the mc is interesting, albeit a little pitiable. Editing could use some work but nothing major. It was a quick read but in really enjoyed it.
February 8, 2019
I loved it
It was short but all in all good other dungeon erotic fantasies start of as the MC being a sociopath right out the gate this one shows how his disappointment turns him slowly more malevolent at the end of it. He has more of a conscious then I was expecting.
It was short but all in all good other dungeon erotic fantasies start of as the MC being a sociopath right out the gate this one shows how his disappointment turns him slowly more malevolent at the end of it. He has more of a conscious then I was expecting.
March 18, 2019
Mediocre story
I found the story weak and filled with too much soap opera style fecal matter. I hope author gets his main character structure aligned with the time and place the character is evolving in and stop making romeo and juliet out of his story.
I found the story weak and filled with too much soap opera style fecal matter. I hope author gets his main character structure aligned with the time and place the character is evolving in and stop making romeo and juliet out of his story.
April 14, 2019
It was ok but a little short
Minor grammar errors combined with a short story. Not a bad read but it focused a little much on the sex side of things and that left the story a little weak. It ended up feeling like the first couple of chapters rather than a full book.
Minor grammar errors combined with a short story. Not a bad read but it focused a little much on the sex side of things and that left the story a little weak. It ended up feeling like the first couple of chapters rather than a full book.
January 23, 2019
Good
I’m always hesitant to start books that are short, however this was presently surprising some action, spurned love and magic.
I’m always hesitant to start books that are short, however this was presently surprising some action, spurned love and magic.
February 27, 2019
Fun but to short
It's more like a short story than a full book. It was a fun read but way way to short.
It's more like a short story than a full book. It was a fun read but way way to short.
February 28, 2019
Good short read
As the title, a bit bawdy, but the protagonist is fallible and faces the challenge of his new constitution that is what his conscience will allow for.
As the title, a bit bawdy, but the protagonist is fallible and faces the challenge of his new constitution that is what his conscience will allow for.
April 21, 2019
asside from the fact this is a short it manages to convey several ideas although it fails to mention a lot of things which makes it wierd...
November 6, 2022
A good first book... I can see the possibilities in the dungeon! I'd like to see more of these characters.
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