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  • Master of the Hoard

  • Dragon Core Chronicles, Book 1
  • By: Lars Machmüller
  • Narrated by: Steve Campbell
  • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (452 ratings)

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Master of the Hoard

By: Lars Machmüller
Narrated by: Steve Campbell
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A new world of magic and violence. One crazy starting bonus. Major downside: no thumbs!

Carl was a regular construction foreman. Not the worst, not the best, and definitely not the thinnest. Even so, he didn't deserve that heart attack! He really didn't deserve being reborn into a magic-filled, dog-eat-dog world as a dragon.

To be fair, it’s nice to be at the top of the food chain. Now Carl just needs to learn how magic works, which monsters are safe to eat, and why his hoard is so important to him. Dealing with everything changing is hard enough, but he has enemy dragons incoming, hostile environments, and foes constantly trying to get bragging rights by taking down a dragon.

At the end of the day, Carl needs to learn how to build a life worth living in a world where might makes right.

©2022 Lars Machmüller (P)2022 Mountaindale Press
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boring

how write a book about a dragon and make it boring I don't know but he did

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FANTASTIC !!!!!

loved this book sooo much honestly. It was interesting and also emotionally engaging . I highly recommend. I loved the relationship between Carl and the tribe (especially Arthur). 10 out of 10

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rant with a couple small spoilers

ok so everything started pretty good. an old guy that is a long time construction worker and avid gamer dies from a heart attack and is reborn as a dragon in a magical game like world.
his first minutes in the new world were filled with fighting for his life and gaining a couple levels. apparently dragons get 5 stats per level but most other races get less and the one and only other race we are introduced to at this point gets only one per level.
shortly after the initial excitement it becomes a slog. the mc captures one of the creatures and intimidates it into working for him he goes and meets it's tribe and takes them to get a new home that is more defensible since they are the weakest things around. so he travels to this old necromancers layer (who is long gone but left behind a few minions) and fights a dozen or so mobs and lays clam to the place. by this point he reaches level 5 and is offered a racial evolution to become either a red, white, green, blue, or shadow dragon. with red being the most powerful and shadow being the weakest from the game description.
I know it's a shocker. who would have guessed the mc was going to choose the weakest evolution and then do a crap job of trying to justify it to us.
I guess I'm just really f*ing tired of this lit rpg cliche where the mc picks the stupidest class, randomly chooses, or accidentally chooses the wrong one then some how it works amazingly. also I'm getting real tired of every litrpg novel completely ignoring the strength stat. last book I read had the mc with like 150 dex 6 strength and 12 constitution and believe it or not this trend is so common I rarely find a book where the mc chooses to be a warrior rather than a min max mage, trap, or sneaky build. what is happening to this genra

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All hail dragon But we're not his minions

This is a good minion story I've created a coalition different creatures And letting them have the power to build what they need while it's need while exacting obedience from their dragon and and setting up a story that should become very interesting in this series

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good book

I really hate the minimum word count requirements for audible reviews. . . . good tho

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Dragons, Monsters, & Town Building!

Great and refreshing new LitRPG Series! As in the title, it has Dragons, Monsters, and Town Building! Great character development too! I want more dragons! 🐉

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Pretty good start

I definitely liked this new take on LITRPG’s. Looking forward to the next book in the series.

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Painful

Overall it was pretty good but good lord there were so many parts that was just so painful. The MC is a dam dragon and his followers are the weakest and most pathetic creatures in the mountain yet they are constantly dictating what the MC does. He has to justify everything he does to these little creatures despite the outcome being noticeably good. Over and over this plays out and it really kills the book.

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Not the Greatest.

Not the worst, but not the greatest might still listen to later volumes, but gonna have to take a break for a little. Overall, it's not a bad book.

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not bad

for a story for about a dragon it's a little bit more of a tower defense kind of vibe or dungeon Lord kind of scenario not what. I would go with if I was going to make a story about a dragon but not too bad. I'll get the next book and I'll listen to the series till the end

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