Book description
The silence after the jump isn't empty. It's the sound of a world snapping shut, a void where Alexandra Rousseau's FTL drive should have been. Now, she's not just stranded in a realm of magic and monsters-she's the monster they forged. They thought sacrificing her would serve their ancient Order, a millennia-long scheme. Instead, they birthed a dungeon core, the most terrifying fabricator this world has ever known.
This isn't just a fantasy novel; it's a slow, suffocating dread poured into your ears. The audiobook masterfully weaponizes sound. You hear the click of Alexandra's engineering mind recalibrating in the dark, the low thrum of her core awakening beneath stone, the distant, guttural roars of creatures drawn to the power she's secretly weaving back to life. The narrator's voice, low and weary with the weight of a soul forged in betrayal, makes every whisper feel like a secret stolen from your own throat. You don't just hear her past-the "darker than the void between stars" truth-but feel it in the tremor of her words as she calculates survival in millimeters.
The horror isn't just in the monsters or the Order hunting her. It's in the silence she must maintain. She's a dungeon, yes-a living labyrinth of forgotten tech and crushing stone. But she's also a woman who remembers the taste of human fear, the cold kiss of a starship's hull against her skin. The Order wants her core, the Adventurer Guild wants her dead. Every adventurer who steps into her domain, thinking they'll claim glory, is unknowingly stepping toward a reckoning. The tension isn't loud; it's the creak of a stone floor under a footstep too close, the sudden, unnatural stillness of a corridor that should be alive.
What makes this audiobook truly unnerving is how it turns the dungeon core concept inside out. Alexandra doesn't build traps for heroes; she is the trap, a sentient, wounded engine of vengeance. The power to resurrect lost technology isn't just cool-it's a ghost haunting her, a reminder of everything she's lost to the Order's greed. You hear it in the way she describes restoring a simple lightbulb, the sound of almost human memory flickering in the dark. The Order's mistake wasn't just transforming her; it was giving her a weapon made of her own shattered humanity.
You'll find yourself leaning in, not just to hear the next plot twist, but to catch the faintest echo of her internal monologue-the quiet, furious calculations as she plans how to make the Order pay. The audiobook's genius is in its restraint. No booming villain speeches. Just the slow, relentless pulse of a core holding its breath, waiting for the moment the adventurers step into the wrong corridor, the moment the Order's agents close in, the moment she decides enough. You feel the stone beneath you, the cold certainty of a trap set not just for enemies, but for the very idea of safety. This isn't a story about surviving a dungeon. It's about becoming the dungeon itself, and the terrifying, beautiful horror of knowing you're the only one who can stop the hunt. They think they own the dungeon. They don't know it owns them.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience