Overpowered Dungeon Boy, Book Two

By: Benjamin Barreth

Narrated by: Benjamin Barreth

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

great listen

it's a fun story with an epic character and good plot I really want there to be more additions to the series.

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.

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.

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.