Son of a Liche
The Dark Profit Saga, Book 2
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Doug Tisdale Jr.
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J. Zachary Pike
About this listen
A doubly disgraced dwarven hero. A band of accident-prone adventurers. Giving redemption a second shot may have been a grave mistake....
Still bruised and heartbroken from their last calamitous quest, Gorm Ingerson and his band of washed-up heroes try to make amends for the orcs they accidentally betrayed. But justice is put on hold when an old foe marches to the city gates. Gorm is horrified to discover a liche pitching the frightened city-dwellers on the merits of the undead lifestyle...at the head of a corpse army.
To save the city from high-pressure sales tactics and an inevitable siege, the dwarf warrior and his misfit band hatch a harebrained scheme that lands them at the top of the king’s kill list. With death and dark magic on his heels, Gorm must craft his own pitch to round up the troops and put the undead snake-oil salesman and his army of pushers permanently out of business.
Son of a Liche is the second book in the Dark Profit Saga, a trilogy of humorous epic fantasy novels. If you like rib-tickling shenanigans, second-rate heroes, and imaginative new takes on tired tropes, then you’ll love J. Zachary Pike’s hilarious blend of finance and high fantasy.
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- S
- 10-05-22
20hrs of pure entertainment.
Orconomics was one of my favourite reads of last year and one of my favourite self-published books of all time. I finally got around to the sequel and wow! Son of a Liche is even better!
If you enjoy clever satire, this series is for you.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-03-23
Absolute joy
Both books are amazing. Witty, fun and incredibly entertaining. If you ever enjoyed TTRPG this one is a must.
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- G
- 30-06-23
great fun
A big D&D/fantasy inside joke. Funny exciting and heartfelt. Not since the name of the wind have I seen such immersive economy in the fantasy world.
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- Nicko83
- 12-04-21
Like Terry Pratchet but better
I can't recommend any book more strongly, wickedly funny, very dark and surprisingly moving. You can tell the author loves fantasy and is very, very clever.
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- chris
- 20-05-18
Great story, worth sequal! Exciting and funny :-)
Sticking the boot into our own bizarre world of finance and the mythical bad guys alike. Love that the shadowkin (orcs and the like) are real characters and not all mindlessly evil.
Keep up the good work!
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- Swords and Spectres
- 13-10-20
A great second book
Having loved 'Orconomics', getting my hands on 'Son of a Liche' was never up for debate. J. Zachary Pike returns to the world of Arth and continues on with the misadventures of our heroes from the previous book.
Now on the run from the law and hunted by just about anyone willing to draw a blade, Gorm and his fellow party members find themselves experiencing the sort of thing that no adventuring party should ever have to face. Not only are they without a guild or even a quest to complete, but they can't show their faces anywhere for fear of attack or capture. Just what does a party of heroes do when they have no quest to complete?
Bicker, mostly, it seems. Life on the road and on the run starts to fray at the edges of the party's resolve and 'Son of a Liche' treats us to a very real look at what happens to people when they are forced into each other's company and have no real goals.
In this book, the author expands upon the world of Arth and, more importantly, he delves deeper into his characters backstories. Whereas before we got the bare bones (and were still treated to a wonderful tale) we get a far greater fleshing out of the characters pasts and their current motivations along with their future dreams.
All in the typical humorous style that makes it such easy reading/listening.
My only real issue with 'Son of a Liche' is that, due to all this greater detail, the book is twice the length it was before. just over 20 hours if you are listening to the audio book and over 600 pages if you are reading the print book. My problem isn't necessarily the length (I've read and listened to longer), my slight problem is that it feels long. I don't like being made to feel every page read or every hour listened, but with this one I did as the story pressed on.
Another reason for this length is that there are two real main narratives going on, one which features the party and one which features a former Goldson and Bags employee from book one. This storyline is a good one as it shows the side of Arth that, viewed through the eyes of the adventurers, you don't ordinarily get to see. It's also used to tie up some of the threads from book one that the heroes wouldn't otherwise encounter.
I greatly enjoyed this book and the series as a whole is one of my favourites, but I feel this could have benefited from being maybe a little shorter and some of the additional side stuff could have been saved for a later book. Still, going by the plethora of five star reviews and outpouring of love for this book I have seen in other reviews around the world wide web, I could just be the minority as far as these thoughts go.
The characters themselves, as always, are incredibly interesting and fun to follow. My favourite will always be the bard due to the sheer bleak humour he has. I also like the fact that their protector from book one takes up a bit more of the spotlight in this outing.
Overall, I really enjoyed this and can't wait to see where things go in the next book. I just hope it doesn't follow suit and clock in at double the length of the book that precedes it.
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- Azure Teal
- 05-01-21
A brilliant story .. I need more
I’m following this author now coz finance science fiction is my genre of choice. I’ve never enjoyed listening to a glossary so much (and I had listened to the one in book 1 two days ago) it gives me hope for the books to come - I also like how there’s more story after the glossary- like a reward for the patient. I will be waiting for book 3 something to look forward to this year -right mr Pike?
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- Sando
- 08-06-24
Hate the Colour of Magic then you will hate this
This is the second book of a trilogy so read the first first that's how these things go. Like the first this book imagines what a DnD setting would be like. the fist book looks a hat happens in a world a wash with Hero's what the economy like. This book looks what happens when there is a financial crash. Great Fun, Ha Haar!
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- Morris
- 30-03-20
great listen
5/5 this book shows great character progression and is an amazing continuation to the first book. the story still contains loads of jokes but is very insightful at the same time. I may take up some economics lessons Haha
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-10-24
just really good
Well written, engaging, clever without disappearing up itself, funny without grasping for laughs, well-narrated... I just really enjoy this series!
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