Overpowered Dungeon Boy, Book Two

By: Benjamin Barreth

Narrated by: Benjamin Barreth

Length: 11 hrs

Publisher's summary

A romping fast-paced fantasy adventure with a ridiculously overpowered main character in the trope of Shrek and One Punch Man.

Book Two of a duology (complete).

The final half of the adventure continues with Thomas and friends delivering desperate refugees to the land of the elves. But chaos brews in the wealthy kingdom, from mysterious threats at the border to assassination attempts on Thomas’ friends. Goddesses, monsters, demons, and much more are packed into this thrilling conclusion.

©2023 Benjamin Barreth (P)2023 Benjamin Barreth

Good, but a little simplistic

Overall, the story was good, but very simple. It had all the classic ways of dealing with an overpowered main character. Spending a great deal of time on side characters, having the main character trying to figure out how to properly use his abilities, all the typical things for dealing with overpowered MCs. Despite all this, the story was good, even though it was predictable and straightforward.

Epic

Just like Book 1, Book 2 had me ROFLMAO (on a plane again). I liked how Ben concluded his story with a very heart-warming ending.

kind of dissatisfied

The books intended audience is hard to gage. The author/narrator reads the book and it feels like a parent reading to a kid. The story comes off as more of a fairy tale and the litrpg aspect of levels and skills have no real appearance. The MC is rather innocent/naive even somewhat childish so the story feels like it's for a 10 yo. The MC is 15 yo and has going through puberty scenes, including taking a magical video of his genitalia by accident when he had to pee that many people including family and pretty girls saw. Other times there's brutal violence so it's hard to figure out who the intended audience is. The build up is non existent for any type of challenge for the MC and the villain(s) were lackluster. Some sections seemed like when you're stuck watching a kids movie/show where things are added last minute to tie up loose ends that don't make sense but have you going "huh, ok I guess". I'd say it's not the worst book I've listened to but I'm probably not going to listen to it again.

I mean... it ended.

It was acceptable. I was happy with the beginning and a few bits in the middle. I even chuckled out loud a bit closer to the end. But it wasn't an amazing book that I just had to read. It was acceptable, it helped pass the time and wasn't so bad that ot made me angry or stop reading it all together.

Wonderful!

It was a great sequel that picked up right where it left off. While there were parts that were too Deux Ex Machina, it made sense since the Gods meddle in the bigger parts of the story.

Spoiler!


I wish the story could continue but this gave us a good ending with Thomas getting what he wanted in the end. I would love to see what had happened to the Kingdom after Rancles death and what Thomas got into in the future as an adult but I'm content with its end.

this had a great ending!

I really enjoyed the plot twists in this story. Thomas had to accomplish a lot for his dream to come true.

Author Narator

Author still has a lisp, the story took some weird turns. The authors writing style has very nice grammar, great descriptions that sometimes repeat or seem to give off the same tone. the world building is very odd, Gives off Terry Pratchett vibes occasionally with some real odd things popping up here and there. Gods went from being Godlike to just powerfull childish beings. also there are no Gods, Just Goddesses. seems noteworthy

OP MC is an unlikeable idiot and a coward

The writing in and of itself was not terrible, but still overall I didn't enjoy the style of storytelling.

For example, I know the MC is supposed to be a sheltered kid, but they trained him up right, and he's supposedly super knowledgeable and intelligent ....but the author writes him to be so dimwitted he can't/doesn't understand basic human interactions happening around him.

The author lays it on pretty thickly, I think MC being underestimated and patronized was supposed to be funny ...but the jokes aren't that great, n instead of injecting light humor he just makes the MC look dumb or incompetent, or any other of a multitude of negative descriptors.

The end result is just frustration/annoyance.