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Cat Core by Dean Henegar
3.0

I'm pretty torn about this book honestly. It has both strong negatives and positives.

First of all, it follows the same setup as other dungeon cores. Human reborn as a dungeon core. Tiny assistant that knows more than the human. Growing village outside. Adventure party the dungeon core grows to like. Evil plot to destroy the dungeon. Which.. if you've read other dungeon cores? Why bother reading this at all?
I honestly don't think I can recommend it to anyone outside of cat lovers. If you love cats, that might be enough to endear this to you. But if not? Skip it.

There are positive sides, and differences to a typical dungeon core book.
Florence, the main characters, is an 80 year old human. Which.. is pretty rare if not entirely unheard of. Makes sense tho doesn't it? Why is it only scrappy young men being reborn into a fantasy realm? The bad side here is that human Florence is.. the most annoying character I've ever met. She's an old Karen, she's hateful, and judgeful, and god-spouting, old lady who yells at everyone and gossips while at the same time lording over everyone else how SHE doesn't do those things. The good news is that.. THAT Florence is only a chapter or three old before she changes.

And unlike other cores, Florence remembers her human life. And that assistant of hers? Well, first of all it's not a flirty relationship. Which almost every other dungeon core does. In fact, they don't even like eachother at the beginning. Florence ignores her assistant and her assistant's advice and does all the wrong things in creating her dungeon. They grow into friends, but it's more like siblings: You like eachother, but sometimes you bicker, and sometimes you just ignore them. And I really loved this relationship. It was refreshing, and will be one of the reasons I'll probably read the next book.

I however, loved the ending, and it was almost good enough to bump this up to 4 stars. I'll give the next book a try, it has potential. But so far it's just.. the typical story wearing a cash shop skin featuring cats and dogs.