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A review by xeni
Dungeon Desolation by Dakota Krout
Did not finish book.
Dear Daddy Dungeon, please go back to being cool. Before you supposedly "gave birth", you had a personality, and a lovely plot to go with it. Now you're barely in the book, everyone around you (including you) is a caricature, and your apparently "other half" is a piece of furniture that moves and likes to smash sentient life for no reason other than it gives him a buzz. I guess it's goodbye for us now.
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On top of all that, the plot was very disjointed up to where I read (about halfway?), our Dungeon acted like all the worst parts of fatherhood were the best, Dani become a different person (because we all need a cringy naggy wife character), everyone else became a flatter person (that's the solution to lack of plot - flatten everyone), and the 'big bad' is so overpowered and also can't decide who he is (a necromancer who isn't a necromancer anyone?) that it just ruins everything.
When Dale was protecting the dungeon and they were working together but not willingly it was the best parts. When we had Cal showing us how to grow and become bigger and make cooler rooms, that was the best part. This book? Not the best part.
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On top of all that, the plot was very disjointed up to where I read (about halfway?), our Dungeon acted like all the worst parts of fatherhood were the best, Dani become a different person (because we all need a cringy naggy wife character), everyone else became a flatter person (that's the solution to lack of plot - flatten everyone), and the 'big bad' is so overpowered and also can't decide who he is (a necromancer who isn't a necromancer anyone?) that it just ruins everything.
When Dale was protecting the dungeon and they were working together but not willingly it was the best parts. When we had Cal showing us how to grow and become bigger and make cooler rooms, that was the best part. This book? Not the best part.