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[Narilka]

I am liking that a lot of these litrpg series are releasing in bundles. Added that to my wishlist so I don't forget.

[Narilka]

I picked up the Holiday Dungeon Core omnibus. I'll look at the 2-for-1 sale later.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Independent authors are definitely more likely to release an intro trilogy omnibus or full series omnibus to increase interest in trying their books / offer an after the fact deal, once initial sales have died down, and I definitely agree... makes it easier for me to pull the trigger on trying random books, knowing I'm getting a BOGO level sale any time I buy...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Narilka wrote: "The Perfect Run III is finished. [spoilers removed] Solid series. I'm glad we read it :)"

I zoomed through Perfect Run 3 yesterday morning and last night...

It had it's moments, but it wasn't quite as awesome as #2, for me, which I think was my favorite?...

Opening your spoiler prepped me for aliens, lol... I definitely found myself comparing this to Mother of Learning 4 alot, and I think I liked the payoffs of MoL4 more... could also compare a bit to Reckoners...

That stuff about Observer reminded me of college philosophy classes...

[Narilka]

I did like MOL better in general mostly because I liked Zorian as a MC better than Ryan. Ryan's cavalier attitude due to his abilities wasn't a turn off exactly, it's hard to describe, I just attached to him less? Things seemed less... I guess there wasn't as much real risk that Ryan would have his perfect run where as Zorian's situation, even after he figures out the time loop, had more stakes involved. I hope that made sense. I also think the romance hurt Perfect Run a little though I did genuinely appreciate the HEA.

[Narilka]

I got started on Christmas Core this morning and am getting Cat Core vibes at only 3 chapters in. The set ups are similar. (view spoiler)[Old guy dies and ends up as a dungeon core. Without any gaming experience, he opts to go with a custom everything dungeon. (hide spoiler)] I guess this is just a feature of the genre as it's only the second dungeon core series I've tried.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I haven't read too many dungeon core books... but the ones I have have definitely trended towards non gamer old people lol...

The main other ones I can think of are:

Arrival -- that Terminator LitRPG I read, where the game world interpreted the Terminator's cyborg nature as a dungeon/hero hybrid...

And dungeon cores were a key plot point in the Threadbare series, and the Cinnamon Bun series (and the Earthen Contenders series)... usually Dungeon Core corruption, not habitation...

[Narilka]

Threadbare wasn't a dungeon core series though. I don't really remember cores being fully addressed in it either though it's been a while since reading. Do you recall if they were? I never did go back and finish the prequel series so don't know if it was talked about there at all.

[RachelG.]

A dungeon core book that I recently read and enjoyed was The Bee-ginning: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG. It has a bee hive dungeon.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Yea, Bee Dungeon is great, I read both it and The Bears and the Bees: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG over the summer, and mentioned them here... the ending made me with The Art of Diploma-Bee: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG was out already... it just came out this week, tho, so we should read it :D