Dungeon Deposed: Book 2

By: William D. Arand

Narrated by: Andrea Parsneau

Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

Ryker only had one goal in his life right now:

Turn a certain adventuring guild into a flaming wreck while dancing merrily through the smoldering ruins. All for the chance to get back at a handful of people.

It didn’t work out that way though.

At all.

He’d become the Count of Dungeon, made a hostage, married off to the false queen’s daughter against his will, and had his county made ground zero for a religious war.

To top all that off, the Dark Lord of the North wants to see Ryker personally.

The smoldering ruins of Dungeon have been cleared, the patterns reset, and Ryker has a task that is more than likely too much for him.

Hold Dungeon, and give Lauren, the rightful queen, some breathing room.

Warning and minor spoiler: This novel contains graphic violence, undefined relationships/harem, unconventional opinions/beliefs, and a hero who is as tactful as a dog at a cat show. Listen at your own risk.

©2019 William D. Arand (P)2019 William D. Arand

omg

love it win I read it on Kendall but this was wow that's all I can say can't Waite for the next book and so enters runner norwood

Medium

It wasn't badd enjoyed the storyline but I kind of got predictable and because of that it can get old still joy able but it's like watching movie for the 5th time you do you predictive

decent

i liked the first one better which is why i gave it a 3 for the the story, the performance was very good but i am very much looking forward to the last book in the little trilogy

All Hail King Riker

Loved this book, couldn't finish it fast enough. I'm dying for part three to come out on audible.

let's just change everything about the main charac

not sure if the author was upset with how the reader voiced his character or if they just didn't like how they made the character. if you liked the funny, jerky, devilish dungeon lord from book one, sorry. The author explains how his voice is changed with magic, but then when he runs out of magic his voice stays the same. *spoiler* Add to that he gets a brand new body and becomes Mr. nice guy and boom new main character. probably read the next book. just not if they want to rewrite the whole cast again

Loved it!

I'm a big fan of this author and this book was a great follow up to the first one. I'm glad they decided to change Rykers' voice in this one. In my opinion it fits the part a little better.

Loving this series

Really enjoying the story and the characters and can’t wait to listen to the next book !

Liked the first one better, but still good

IMPORTANT: It seems that Arand intends to tie the Dungeon Deposed books into his greater multiverse. It doesn't much matter for your enjoyment of this book, but I suspect it might for book 3. If you plan to continue reading this, I would recommend that you read his Otherlife series if you have not already (it is very enjoyable).

This is on the edge of 3/4 stars for me. Midway through the book I would have said 3, but the end brought it back up to 4.

I've listed to all of Arand's books and have some of them on Kindle. Recently it seems like he has started adding additional characters into his later books that take the place of earlier characters and cause the narrative to revolve around them for a time. I feel like this book cements that pattern in my mind. It's not that I dislike the new member of the Harem that gets added, simply that the character feels unnecessary and receives a lot of focus.

I feel like Andrea Parsneau made an unfortunate choice in the narration, though one driven by the story. Early on our protagonist makes a decision to use magic to change his voice to be more fitting for his new station (something that most people don't seem to notice or comment on). However, at that point Parsneau changes the voice used for the Ryker. I thought the original voice was very distinctive and the new voice by contrast seems very generic. What especially bothered me about this is that the voice is even changed in any internal dialog that happens.

That's not to say all the new characters are bad. In particular I liked one introduced near the end.

Overall the story was fine, though the pacing seems off at times. I find myself very unclear on the scale/size of both dungeon and the kingdom of Dale. This might be something that a print version rectifies with a map, but it did bother me a bit

I also think Ryker's characterization is a bit off. Along with the change of voice, most of his anger seems to flood out of him. There are "reasons" for this, but they don't feel very satisfying or gradual. Letting go of his anger is something that should have been his character arc and instead it is something that just happened. There are still one or two moments where he gets angry, and they feel refreshing, but otherwise it feels like his character was made much more generic.

We also see him perform what seems like extremely impressive magic. However, it is without proper context. How many other people can work spells on the scale that he does? Why don't all mages use the "self-sustaining" spells Ryker makes use of. There are dangers to it, but at the same time we also see him put in a limit on them in one scene. It is "cool" but also feels inconsistent.

This book was definitely weaker than the first one, and it feels like it is trying to tell a different type of story. I don't know for certain, but it almost felt like Arand changed his mind about what direction he wanted to take the story and characters. I will be continuing to read it, but hope the next book has some improvement.

I'm in aww

Never have I read a book where the author contrives a way to improve the listening quality. Someone must have complained about the MC.

The book is enjoyable.

Great read

Great world and good action. They should change Ryder's name to Erection. Great world but the characters are always turned on in life or death situations. Additionally this dude is apparently married to something like 10 women that somehow get along and all deeply love him? Seriously? How about introducing another male character? It's ok. Ryder doesn't need to sleep with and marry every female character. Ryder spends 90% of his time having sex with all his wives and managing their emotions. I don't know how this guy can walk.