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Shadowcroft Academy For Dungeons: Year One
Shadowcroft Academy For Dungeons · Book 1 · 2021
After a mimic eats Army veteran Logan Murray, he wakes in another world as a three-foot mushroom creature. Shadowcroft Academy expects him to learn dungeon building and defend the Tree of Souls against the people called heroes.
From the author’s blurb
“Build a Dungeon. Slay Heroes. Survive Finals.”Read the full description at James A. Hunter's official book page
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What makes it funny?
Before the monster training, Logan’s complaints about a hungover employee give the opening chapter a dry, verbally playful voice. The academy adds its own academic indignities, putting dungeon design and the ethics of killing on the syllabus.
The comedy at work
Deadly work comes with the familiar obligations of school. Course requirements make monstrous behavior sound routine, while Logan approaches his extraordinary circumstances with a practical veteran’s grumbling.
Try this if…
Readers interested in learning to build and defend a dungeon may enjoy following an underpowered student through an academy. Logan’s everyday complaints provide a comic voice alongside the work of improving his abilities.
Good to know
The opening includes coarse language and discussion of Logan’s combat injury and prosthetic leg. The setup involves monster violence and training to kill heroes.
A few distinguishing details
- The school’s newest monster is a small mushroom with a weak core.
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