Dungeon Tour Guide 2

A LitRPG Adventure

De: Aaron Shih

Narrado por: Travis Baldree

Lucas’ job doesn’t end when the tour does. Now, he has to prepare his adventurers for war.

The Omen's first foray into Centerpoint Dungeon has failed, but Lucas knows that won't be the end of it. He has to prepare himself for the storm that's brewing—all while continuing to manage his dungeon, doing everything from running his tours to committing large-scale counterfeiting to holding a singing competition.

There are enemies on all sides. The dungeon lies within an oppressive kingdom that refuses to acknowledge any of its countless wars. To the south lies the Omen of death, eager to consume it all. Still unknown threats verge towards Centerpoint.

Thanks to Lucas’ efforts, his allies increase in number and power to match their perils. Only together can they navigate the troubled times ahead of them.

©2023 Aaron Shih (P)2023 Podium Audio

I enjoyed listening to this audiobook

It was delightful and stimulating to listen to enjoyed every minute of it. Keep up the good work.

fast

l had to slow it down as if felt like the reader was racing to the end

Few Bad Things Cause Steep Decline

The last 1.5 hours were completely subpar, but the issues go deeper than that. The characters feel flat and their primary motivations feel hollow. Author felt the need to shoehorn relationships that didn't really work or feel earned.

The relationship between Ryan and Troy is especially bad. It manages to remove all personality from both characters: going from driven, capable, well-written/well meaning characters with individual drives to 'we can't dedicate time to training, we need to boink (insert implied s*x joke)' every single time.

Seriously, I can count on a single hand the dialog that either character has that's not answering for both. I can count on 2 hands the total dialog lines of both characters. It really seemed like the author got tired of writing them and figured this was an okay compromise.

Lucas is less decisive in everything. He especially turns into an idiot where Rose is concerned (and the last 1.5 hours).

Class upgrades are cool. I wish more was done with this. Very little actually mattered. Only 1 of Lucas' mattered and it somehow turned him evil, no indication that classes control you personally prior. The rules are repeatedly broken.

"Omen can't enforce his will onto the world too often because it's terribly taxing" - one sec let him finish his machine gun fire of instant death, this is totally within the known rules. And - "Oh everyone is dying, I'm glad the only person to lose anything in class advancement is me. I don't need revive, sure let me keep all other abilities of the old class except the major one on my path itself"

Writing style itself is still good. So many cool ideas are brought up here that I hope to continue the series. I just hope he fixes the obvious flaws. Needless deaths also don't add anything, the characters are so 2d that I felt very little if what was supposed to be high impact (the cause is needless, nothing changes either way)

It’s sad that this was the 2nd book

The first book in the series was really well written and the first 40 or so chapters where really good but after that they started making all the characters more likable which sounds good if they didn’t kill 6 of them off. They also send the adventurers on missions and barely say anything about them and most of what they do say doesn’t really come up again, they leave the whole omen problem still not completely settled and not at all explained. I also hate that the author started developing the MC’s healing to a point where it fit the challenges they were facing and then continued to delete all of that and then add in a corny ability that just let’s everyone share their strength and work together which was so boring it nearly put me to sleep. It was like a filler episode in a TV series when they run out of ideas, so they just go over past events. Plus how is that class going to work in the series, my only problem with book one was that the MC could not go on adventures so I was hoping the author would give the MC the ability to leave the dungeon. But other than the end, this was a good book if the author had cut it to maybe chapter 50 then I’d probably give it 5 stars but the last bit of this book was terrible. The narrator was great though.

Can’t wait for the next one!

Performance was spectacular (as always from Travis Baldree!) and I’m really excited to see where the story goes from here!

Brought to tears by the power of friendship

Not a joke. I'm dead serious. I'm a 36 year old man who cries actual tears listening to the climax of this book while the Avengers theme song played in my head. 10/10

fun read

love the characters and story progression and especially character progression and development to me it's how invested you get in character

Decent enough

Good characters but cant seem to like the main character just his overall attitude and demeanor

It was a rush job

The narrator was great as we would expect from him. That said, the story line really just rushes way too much. The Omen is literally never explained. The incompetent king, never explained. This story should have been broken into multiple books with much more detail.

That was emotional highway robbery.

The danger felt insulated in a way at the start of the book because the hero always swoops in to save the day. Until..... It was masterfully done and I am going to start the sequel soon, but damn that was rough. ggz