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The Laboratory
- A Futuristic Dungeon Core
- Narrated by: Gabriella Cavallero
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Emma is an artificial intelligence with a love of science, insults, and devilish traps. When her systems are booted up, she finds herself in control of a long-abandoned facility in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The world is filled with dangerous threats, granted great powers by the same cataclysm that befell the world.
Emma must balance safety with the desire for test subjects as she brings herself back fully online and stakes out a place in this new world.
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Embrakh
- 24-04-2019
Unfortunately Average
I wanted to enjoy this book. I've a love for Dungeon Core themed stories, and admittedly love the idea of GLaDOS building a dungeon in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. There's unfortunately just a lot of problems. Whilst the book appears to be written with comedy in mind, character's act very unrealistically. None ever show signs of trauma when any normal person would break down. In addition, there's frequently large skips over all dungeon's development to each new encounter (which all feel the same as all characters are pretty flat) which takes away from the experience. In addition, the RPG elements seem like a cheap gimmick and come across as an easy way of giving the AI protagonist cool stuff without earning it; especially as they mostly just appear and the protagonist never has to get creative or work hard for them.
Overall, if you've already listened to all other Dungeon Lord/Core stories on Audible or just want a decent listen; then give the book a go. I found it decent enough to buy Book 2, but quickly refunded it after finding a lot of the problems in Book 1 were a LOT more common.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Daniel
- 07-11-2021
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enjoyable story, I havnt read a dungeon core book before, interesting concept, a little short I'll likely read more eventually
I liked the glados like mc
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Laurence Ranking
- 26-02-2018
Good. Fast
I really enjoyed this book it felt a bit like GLaDOS stuck in a Fallout world plus superpowers (if you aren't a gamer google Portal or GLaDOS and Fallout is a post apocalyptic setting).
My only issue with this book is it's all action then ending. I kept thinking a calmer moment was going to come where we'd get to know Emma a bit more and she'd really get stuck into so updating for tactics. But it was all on the fly. I guess I know from the short play time it wasn't going to be long but damn, I guess I just want more haha!
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