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Derelict

Book 1, Repel Boarders (A LitRPG, Dungeon Core Adventure)

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Derelict

By: Dean Henegar
Narrated by: Jack Voraces
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One captain’s death might turn out to be humanity’s best chance at survival.

As humanity expands into the stars, it discovers the universe is a hostile place.

When Captain Slater of the USS Franklin is assigned to a deep-space reconnaissance mission, his ship is destroyed by an unknown alien race.

Much to his surprise, Slater isn’t killed - he’s transformed. He is now a “derelict” - a consciousness bound to his old vessel.

Slater must quickly adapt to his new existence before raiders, alien armies, and mysterious forces seek to destroy him for a second and final time.

©2020 Dean Henegar (P)2020 Dean Henegar First Contact Military Science Fiction Fiction

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A fun dungeon core novel with a decent explanation as to why dungeon cores exist. I'm always a fan of naval combat, so its nice to have it as a slight focus in space, which is a particular interest to the author and it shows.

Space naval combat

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I absolutely love the narration by Jack Voraces.
Also the story was something I've never seen before. Not even close.
Very unique and therefore very entertaining. Only let down for me is that it is very America focused (his choices on ship designs for example).

A really good start to an epic story

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First off I could not get away with the narration speed, at 1x it was sooooo slow. I turned it up to 1.3x and it sounds much more natural now and I enjoyed the narration from then on.

The story takes a while to warm up, if you find yourself wondering, give it a few more chapters until the plot clicks together.

Other than the speed, which I solved my only gripe is the computer robot voice that reads out all the stats , ALL the stats! I can see how you could browse it in a book but to listen to it several times gets a bit old.

Looking forward to the next installment.

Interesting concept a new twist on my usual Sci Fi

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I actually really enjoyed this one.

This book starts off a little slow for my liking and doesn’t find its pace until later in the book but if you hear with it, you’re taken on a journey that unfolds and becomes is enjoyable to be on. This is my first LitRPG and one I did enjoy.

In some ways I found the stats readings interesting but also a little repetitive but thankfully they don’t happen too much. The story itself finds its groove and becomes captivating, and I really enjoyed the authors use of factual history in this book as inspiration for names. I thought the addition of that at the end really rounded it off nicely.

The narration was good, characters were given their own voices and personalities throughout and I enjoyed the performance overall.

I would recommend giving this a shot!

A Good Introduction to LitRPG

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Dean henegar is one of my newest favourite authors I don't get much time to read books so I mostly have to use audiobooks within a car. loving sci-fi military and anything to do with dungeon core adventures this covered all the bases and threat to be a sublime as it was. and the voice acting from Jack was awesome really told the story was helped story unfold. I've now completed the book two and three. I can officially say I always wanted to hear the next book because they are so good also with Dean's military background using some of the military terminology and names of certain things which I do not want to say because I was spoilt it it was awesome idea.

The best storyline I've heard in a long time

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