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Battleborne, Book 2: Wrack and Ruin

By: Dave Willmarth
Narrated by: Daniel Wisniewski, Jessica Threet
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Maximilian Storm has embraced his new life as a Battleborne. Reincarnated on a strange world in a powerful chimera body, he has gathered friends, made enemies, and developed wondrous new magical and physical abilities. He’s even discovered that a couple of his men, Smitty and Dylan, have chosen to join him on this world.

Max is on a mission to secure and expand his newly conquered kingdom, Stormhaven. But War Chief An’zalor wants his mine back. When he sends a small army of orcs to capture it, Max’s party, along with his dwarven and orc allies, must help him defend his new territory.

An epic quest is discovered, sending Max and his core party into the wilds to track down and retrieve a powerful artifact. New friends are discovered, and new challenges met along the way. When Max ventures off on his own, he discovers a lost territory, and an ancient dwarven secret that may change the lives of everyone. A secret that might also end his own life, and his reign.

©2021 Dave Willmarth (P)2021 Mountaindale Press Dark Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Magic
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great continuation of the story. thoroughly enjoyed by the whole family. looking forward to book 3

brilliant fun

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Enjoyed every minute, great story, great narrator’s.
Downloading the next in now.
Worth the money

10/10

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Well written well narrated book. Very likeable characters and plenty of action without alot of level up notifications etc. Dwarves Gnomes Orks Elves Goblins Trolls and Chimeras with nifty explodey spells !! What more do you want

Great read

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The story with Max is brilliant but gets massively overshadowed by someone named legrasse and theres another greydwarf near the beginning whos story is all but forgotten. neither legrasse or the dwarf have any tie in stories in the world with max, but so much time is devoted to fleshing out legrasse that max's story feels like it goes nowhere.

Great series with major unfinished business

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Normally I would give this a full 5 stars but this writer is above the average writers in my opinion so I hold a higher standard and its just my opinion. So the voice actors are amazing at the range of accents and voices 5 star for that. Story wise you could've cut out 4 to 5 hours of all the filler stuff of micro management of his kingdom or standard conversations that don't really progress the story but it ads world building and more behind the scenes. One thing that did annoy me was change or character prospectives not being their own chapters but being part of a big chapter so you can't skip them without missing out on main story. And I miss abit of romance that the main character had in the first book. Personal thing on me for that point. So if you read the first and like hearing alot of world building, city/nation building with alittle bit of bro mance between a group of guys this book is great. I will listen to the next book because I'm invested in knowing where this goes even if I have to skip chapters to get the story moving.

Compared to the first book it's ok but...

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I thought this was awesome I'm a computer gamer and recommend a listen. leveling up be an alchemist a Smith a mage a warrior, compannions who are tanks and healers. An evil sinister plot developing in the back ground, the only thing that made me go ewe was the possible romance with interspecies hero BOOM BOOM, it was like lv100 monster peni savaging garden gnome. it made me wonder, but hey it wasn't a focus, so didn't think about it too much.

loved the idea of epic legend rewards and God's interfering with quests. if only this happened 😪 in real life.

I need to go play another game on Elden scrolls!!!

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Loved the story and the narrator the new POV change was a little grating at first but over time it was understandle.

Spoilers under.

He was told to practice his magic and even remarked that his 2nd level spell is so much more powerful but outside of combat and the teleporting of the spiderorc body he has not seemed to cast a spell for practice at all? He has a massive mana pool and good regen but sits around smithing and crafting potions which is a great LONG TERM power gain while ignoring amazing potential power now? As a military man would he not want to practice? clean polish his weapons? for example, his heal skill as far as I hear in the book is still level 2? he can get AOE (3 targets) if he levels it up but 0 spells even when he has no use for the extra mana? Is this done for later character growth or are you writing the character as an idiot? He has a spell that will give everyone 25% bonus stats but going into a conflict with a larger force doesn't use the mana in the staff to cast it? then ignores the staff mana anyways.

Anyways love the story but the lack of character growth in spell use is infuriating.

Amazing story

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narration was on point as always.

I can't wait for the next book to come out.

love this series so much

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