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Factory Core
Who could have predicted that a simple mining mission would end up jeopardizing the entire known world?
When a couple of dwarves keep pushing deeper and deeper into the earth to find new veins of mithril to extract, what they unearth, however, is the doom of their race. Bursting out of the breach they created is a horde of powerful demons that only know one thing: to destroy.
Fast-forward a few months and the war rages on. Unfortunately for them, despite their bravery, the dwarves are no match for the sheer numbers and ferocity of their adversary.
In a last-hope attempt to save their kind, they decide to activate a secret project their engineers had been working on: a mobile factory made of bricks, brass, magical runes and soul gems. That sentient machine is not only capable of observing and learning from its foes, it can also produce the required weapons necessary to strike back.
This Factory Core—as they call it—will need to build units and defensive mechanisms to repel the demon army and prevent it from razing the city. But this will prove to be an almost impossible task as the invaders, led by a vicious commander, have more than one trick up their own sleeve…
When a couple of dwarves keep pushing deeper and deeper into the earth to find new veins of mithril to extract, what they unearth, however, is the doom of their race. Bursting out of the breach they created is a horde of powerful demons that only know one thing: to destroy.
Fast-forward a few months and the war rages on. Unfortunately for them, despite their bravery, the dwarves are no match for the sheer numbers and ferocity of their adversary.
In a last-hope attempt to save their kind, they decide to activate a secret project their engineers had been working on: a mobile factory made of bricks, brass, magical runes and soul gems. That sentient machine is not only capable of observing and learning from its foes, it can also produce the required weapons necessary to strike back.
This Factory Core—as they call it—will need to build units and defensive mechanisms to repel the demon army and prevent it from razing the city. But this will prove to be an almost impossible task as the invaders, led by a vicious commander, have more than one trick up their own sleeve…
- GenresFantasy
273 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 15, 2019
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October 16, 2019
A poorly thought out story
The good:
I saw no obvious misspellings or missing or misused words. This book looks well edited in that regard. Grammar and punctuation was good enough to make any mistakes go unnoticed by me.
The bad:
This book was a mass of inconsistency and contradiction.
The author tells us repeatedly the demons had no fear except when they did. Certain armor and stone were impenetrable except when they were penetrated. Soul gems retained only the general soul of the original being and held none of the intelligence or experience the person had except when it did. There was no light from the surface getting down to the dwarven city except when there was. The demon commander didn't care if his troops died or not except when he did.
This was written using words I would expect an adult to use, except for the word ginormous, but was written as if it was for 6th graders.
There was no thought put in to personalities or realism. The characters were archetypes. The demons, dwarves, and humans all spoke exactly the same. "Oy, bloody h***"
A demon was shouting at his troops which spanned a mile wide front, and they all heard him to put up ladders at the same instant.
There were many more instances of this that I saw and probably more I didn't see because I just couldn't stomach reading anymore after 63%.
The good:
I saw no obvious misspellings or missing or misused words. This book looks well edited in that regard. Grammar and punctuation was good enough to make any mistakes go unnoticed by me.
The bad:
This book was a mass of inconsistency and contradiction.
The author tells us repeatedly the demons had no fear except when they did. Certain armor and stone were impenetrable except when they were penetrated. Soul gems retained only the general soul of the original being and held none of the intelligence or experience the person had except when it did. There was no light from the surface getting down to the dwarven city except when there was. The demon commander didn't care if his troops died or not except when he did.
This was written using words I would expect an adult to use, except for the word ginormous, but was written as if it was for 6th graders.
There was no thought put in to personalities or realism. The characters were archetypes. The demons, dwarves, and humans all spoke exactly the same. "Oy, bloody h***"
A demon was shouting at his troops which spanned a mile wide front, and they all heard him to put up ladders at the same instant.
There were many more instances of this that I saw and probably more I didn't see because I just couldn't stomach reading anymore after 63%.
February 21, 2021
Could have used more forging.
While a decent enough story, some of the descriptions of thoughts or ideas could use some polish.
A character is thinking about his photographic memory in a world that doesn't have photography.
How someone else has a light bulb moment, in a world that barely understands electricity let alone has light bulbs.
Otherwise its not bad, I've certainly read worse.
You like the people you are supposed to like, hate the ones you are supposed to hate, even though their motives are utterly ridiculous considering the fallout for their actions.
While a decent enough story, some of the descriptions of thoughts or ideas could use some polish.
A character is thinking about his photographic memory in a world that doesn't have photography.
How someone else has a light bulb moment, in a world that barely understands electricity let alone has light bulbs.
Otherwise its not bad, I've certainly read worse.
You like the people you are supposed to like, hate the ones you are supposed to hate, even though their motives are utterly ridiculous considering the fallout for their actions.
December 6, 2019
Exposition dump in the opening chapter.
July 29, 2019
Well written poorly thought out
The biggest problem with the book is while the core is supposed to be the smartest collection of great minds ever assembled the writer clearly isn’t making extremely poor tactical decisions repeatedly and showing none of its supposedly incomparable learning functionality.
The biggest problem with the book is while the core is supposed to be the smartest collection of great minds ever assembled the writer clearly isn’t making extremely poor tactical decisions repeatedly and showing none of its supposedly incomparable learning functionality.
July 31, 2019
Too many PoV's for my taste. The Factory Core didn't have much personality and was mostly seen from other characters PoV's. Almost all characters seemed like secondary characters too. The conflict despite being supposedly epic in scale felt very small scale overall.
The Factory Core also didn't feel all it was made out to be.
The Factory Core also didn't feel all it was made out to be.
August 12, 2019
Kind of entertaining, but lacks something I can’t explain.
Started off well. Doesn’t really fit into the LitRPG genre. I like the concept, but feel they lacked depth. Lots of things just happen without reason to help the “good guys”. Overall read it if you want, but there are many other dungeon core like stories that you might enjoy more.
Started off well. Doesn’t really fit into the LitRPG genre. I like the concept, but feel they lacked depth. Lots of things just happen without reason to help the “good guys”. Overall read it if you want, but there are many other dungeon core like stories that you might enjoy more.
July 22, 2019
Rise of the factory core
Way better than I thought it would be at the time. An excellent read. I might have to check out more of this author’s work now. And I will definitely be waiting for the next book.
Way better than I thought it would be at the time. An excellent read. I might have to check out more of this author’s work now. And I will definitely be waiting for the next book.
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