Second Story Man

Name: Second Story Man
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Eric Ugland
ISBN: 9781541436442

Author: Eric Ugland

Series: Bad Guys #2

Narrator: Neil Hellegers

Unabridged: 8 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/25/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

"Has your life here been so difficult? You seem to fail upward at every opportunity."

So says Careena, the hag teaching Clyde Hatchett how to use magic. It certainly doesn't feel like that to Clyde, who's still got a day job scraping mud (at least he hopes it's mud) out of monster pits, and whose "thieves' guild" is more concerned with baking cookies than with protecting him against a rival gang. He keeps accumulating roommates—like a freed sex slave and a retired paladin—who make him nervous, but for very different reasons. And let's not get started on the mimic that's taken up residence by Clyde's shower, or the supposedly tame grimeling in his closet . . .

And yet even with all the annoyances, distractions, and occasional death threats, Clyde's found himself at the center of a massive conspiracy to kill the Emperor. He's the only one with proof that could save the man, and take down an entire network of corrupt nobles, evil slavers, and power-hungry despots. Clyde really hopes Careena is right about him—the fate of the entire Empire depends on it.

About Eric Ugland

Eric Ugland ran away from Seattle to join the circus. And then he came to his senses, and moved to Manhattan. Now he's a novelist in Los Angeles. Don't worry, it doesn't make sense to him either.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sam on October 17, 2019

I gave the first book 5 stars because I enjoyed it so much despite a fair bit of criticism that I gave it. This book is almost as good but I don't feel like Ugland is learning from his mistakes. There are a lot of typos in this, i reported some of them through kindle but it's not my job to edit it so......more

Goodreads review by Soima on October 17, 2019

All in all a good book but the ending ruined it All in all a good book but the ending ruined it. I don't know what the author drank or ate when he wrote the ending but he should stop because it pretty much ruined the book for me. It will be a bit of a coin toss if I will take a chance with the ext on......more

Goodreads review by Lance on October 28, 2019

Really good till the end I hate endings like this one. No point in it. Not going to say more, good reading till the very end. Was a solid 8 out of 10. Dropped to a 4 with that ending. Will still read the next one... Most likely.......more

Goodreads review by Ofelia on July 24, 2021

Mostly everything from my review of the first book applies here too. All the bad things from the first one haven't been fixed though, but worsened. The plot was messier and the game mechanics were kind of weird. It felt like nothing happened and no progression was made. Clyde got another building an......more

Goodreads review by Chris on March 30, 2020

I really enjoy Ugland's style and stories. The way this one is woven in with the rest with 'The Good Guys' series was also really well done. I'm really hoping he follows up on that person from earth being tortured in the dungeon though, that's felt like a dangling plot thread since he mentioned it a......more