Overpowered Dungeon Boy: Book One

De: Benjamin Barreth

Narrado por: Benjamin Barreth

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

Book One of a completed duology.

A monster dungeon is all Thomas has ever known. After all, he was born there. Now, at age 14, he’s been solo-clearing all 100 floors of the dungeon for years. The last of his family and friends are about to die off as an eternal void beast tirelessly pursues them. Will they ever escape?

Thomas’ strength is unparalleled, but what does it matter when you’re trapped in an endlessly repeating prison? He would love nothing more than to see the sky for the very first time and find a safe place to settle down. Fate has much more in mind, but her best efforts only go so far when it comes to the overpowered dungeon boy.

Meanwhile, Nell Windborn lives in a tiny village, clustered on the side of the hundred-league-tall cliff. When the villagers run out of water, they attempt a daring plan, only for their best-laid plans to go awry. Nell can’t save them alone, but maybe she won’t have to, as strange new visitors drop from the sky.

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Very good overall.

For a young adult novel this was quite good. Like many stories in this vein, the main character cannot be the central focus of story. Often overpowered characters. have to be sidelined in order to get the story rolling. Usually the author does this by either, putting some kind of heavy restriction on the main character, such as losing the powers for short time, or they simply focus on other characters, leaving the overpowered character in the background for a while. This story follows the second option. Though the story does drop hints of how it can employ the first option. I have heard this refer to as the superman kryptonite option. We shall see how the next book goes.

The author likes the word Fluffy.

its very hard to enjoy with the constant lisping voice. if you can get past that then the book is decent. As soon as we were introduced to the dungeon and its mechanics i was done with it and couldnt wait for them to leave it,

A great example of the reason I became a fan of LitRPG

This is an excellent story, and I can’t wait for the next book. I was initially hesitant to pick this title up given the author narrated his own book but I was pleasantly surprised, Benjamin did a better job than some of the pros out there.

Surprisingly good!

I always approach author-narrated audiobooks with a high degree of skepticism. Normally it only takes a couple of minutes of listening to the sample to have that skepticism confirmed.

This time I decided to take a chance and was pleasantly surprised. I’m not saying that this audiobook wouldn’t have been better had it been performed by a talented narrator, because it definitely would have been, but the narration was not a hinderance to the experience and the flaws were easy to ignore.

…And it was far and away better than many performances from the so-called professionals in the GameLit genre. I can’t count how many stories I’ve tried to listen to that were utterly ruined by the likes of Daniel Wisnewski, Jack Voraces, and Wayne Mitchell.

My narration hang-ups aside, this was a fun and engaging book, and if you’re a LitRPG fan you’re unlikely to be disappointed. Definitely worth your credits.

Really good!.

Okay, so in the first half of the story, there is a constant change of pov, and i almost dropped this because of it, but when that stops, the story just gets better also im extremely surprised gow good the narration was because usually the authors that do the narration dont do well in my opinion but here it was really good.