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  • The Guardian Guild

  • A Dungeon Core Epic (Station Cores, Book 3)
  • By: Jonathan Brooks
  • Narrated by: Miles Meili
  • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (56 ratings)

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By: Jonathan Brooks
Narrated by: Miles Meili
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Summary

Stranded on an alien planet with his consciousness implanted inside of a Station Core, Milton Frederick has used all of the resources at his disposal to protect his damaged Core from local hostile beasts, Proctans, and even a massive bear-gorilla hybrid that almost single-handedly destroyed his dungeon. 

Milton is joined by his AI guide, ALANNA, as well as Brint and Whisp - two Proctans that have joined him in his endeavors; with the introduction of two new “recruits” - Rosewyn and Moxwell - they form a plan that enlists a few more Guardian Guild members to help combat the threat that Brint had discovered underneath the Quizard Mountains to the east. 

Unfortunately, not everything is going as well for the Guardian Guild, the organization tasked with defending the Proctan kingdom from the wild beasts roaming their borders. A political coup instigated by the Cordpower Company has upset the monarchial government and the Guild has been caught in the crossfire. 

Now, Milton has to figure out how to deal with that issue, while at the same time preparing for the inevitable arrival of the threat from the Quizard Mountains. 

Fortunately, new discoveries of his own has led to great strides in manipulating the Gene Mutations that affect the Proctans. Not only has the introduction of a Neurological Control Unit allowed for the manipulation of abilities, but it also provides something that will change the very nature of how the Proctans view death - and something that Milton, as a gamer, knows very well: respawning. 

But will those advantages be enough against the threat coming their way? 

Contains LitRPG/GameLit elements such as level progression and experience, optional tables, no harems, and a heavy Dungeon Core emphasis. 

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Jonathan Brooks (P)2019 Jonathan Brooks

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Solid escalation in this instalment

Getting the obvious comment out of the way first, as book three in the series, it is not the ideal starting point for somebody new to the series and they would be better off with book one. This book shares a fairly similar structure to the second book in the series, the timeline is again basically contiguous without the skips that were necessary in the first book and the amount of people interacting with the station core expands again. This time round the increased cast is in theory, significantly larger with the addition of an entire guild, although in reality the increase in significant characters isn't anywhere near as high as that.

It is interesting to see the way that the focus and goals of the dungeon core have changed over the course of this series, going from the more abstract developing sufficiently to return to the collective that had basically abducted him in the first place towards the more grounded aim of helping the population of the planet whose lives had been changed so drastically by his presence on their planet.

The performance of the narrator continues to be a strong point of this series, helping to nicely enhance the overall story with suitably distinctive tones.

Overall, this was very much a middle book in a series, escalating existing issues and introducing some new ones rather than closing off any particular plotlines, but this isn't a problem when you are already engaged and enjoying a series by this point anyway.

[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]

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Avesome book

It was pleasure to listen to another part of this series. Now it's time for next part😁

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good book series but...

I like the plot of the series and love the character developments i even like the stats but i just can't get over the cursing. like there are Full sentences of cursing. this is a good book but for some people some like me that amount of cursing is a no-no. esp for an audiobook. but i would still read it and recommend it because it is a great book with a great story. however, sorry although it was a great performance and the plot is good, i would probably stick to Reading this than Listening to it. will probably enjoy it that way. so if you are not averse to cursing like a pirate/trucker and you like Dungeon Litrpgs that involves stats(i love those) you would love this book series. Just try it!

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A strong continuation of the series

Full disclosure. I was gifted a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

For me, this has been the best book in the series so far. I am very definitely enjoying the ongoing plot line, and the steady build up of the overall story.

The pacing in this one seemed better to me than the first two, which could be a little slow in places, and I do like the way the stats are interleaved in in such a way that they could be skipped by anyone less interested.

The only slight disappointment was the big surprise reveal at the end of the book... which I'd already guessed back in volume 2. It certainly didn't runin the ending or the book for me, so don't let that put you off reading it.

It is definitely a series that needs to be read in order, but for me at least, it's well worth doing so.

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part 3, more people join!

The developments in the kingdom and in the mountains make it more fun, more characters join in and the story gets a lot more fleshed out, milton's reasons are also more logical, as he starts to care for the people he influences.

Well narrated, but the "stat" parts are sometimes too often in this book, making the constant chapter announcements almost so slow it would have been better to just leave the stats inside the main chapter.

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