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The Druid: A High Fantasy Adventure
A magical boy and his giant wolf best friend team up to save the last of humanity in the second installment of this epic adventure series.
Having survived against goblins and the undead, Dirt and Socks are striking out on their own, leaving forest and den behind. Their spirits are high, but the reason for the journey is Socks is being hunted by a mysterious entity called the Devourer, and it’ll catch them if they stay in one place too long.
To complicate matters, they finally encounter some real, live humans. A small group of adventurers are wandering the wilds to find a lost city, because it turns out humanity is on the brink of extinction. Year by year, humans are dying out, and Dirt might be the cause.
Dirt and Socks will have to keep growing stronger, wiser, and more cunning if they want to make a difference. They’ll need every ounce of magic and physical prowess to overcome the dangers placed before them, including monstrous armies, strange creatures, angry ghosts, and other abominations from beyond.
Survival is never easy in the Land of Broken Roads . . .
The second volume of the hit fantasy adventure series—with more than a million views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!
Having survived against goblins and the undead, Dirt and Socks are striking out on their own, leaving forest and den behind. Their spirits are high, but the reason for the journey is Socks is being hunted by a mysterious entity called the Devourer, and it’ll catch them if they stay in one place too long.
To complicate matters, they finally encounter some real, live humans. A small group of adventurers are wandering the wilds to find a lost city, because it turns out humanity is on the brink of extinction. Year by year, humans are dying out, and Dirt might be the cause.
Dirt and Socks will have to keep growing stronger, wiser, and more cunning if they want to make a difference. They’ll need every ounce of magic and physical prowess to overcome the dangers placed before them, including monstrous armies, strange creatures, angry ghosts, and other abominations from beyond.
Survival is never easy in the Land of Broken Roads . . .
The second volume of the hit fantasy adventure series—with more than a million views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!
- GenresFantasy
301 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 17, 2025
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October 1, 2025
I dnf'ed this one about 65% into it. It's not that it's bad, in fact it's probably better than the first one, but I just completely lost my patience waiting for it to get interesting.
Roughly each chapter something happens without connecting to any other event or having real stakes. Dirt and Socks learn something about the world and/or they do a thing for the first time. The issue is that it's mostly not that interesting to read about, no matter whether they're fighting a horde of enemies that they effortlessly retreat from after getting bored with slaughtering them or they are helping someone else make bread or roast meat. Sometime events bring up an interesting question about the history of the world and it's current state but they immediately decide they can't learn more about it now so there's no point worrying about it. To be clear none of these are bad in isolation, what the book actually lacks is any sense of tension or progress to tie all these disparate pieces together.
The new adult human characters aren't terribly interesting either. They've been around since the very first chapter and we still only have the very roughest idea of what they're trying to do and neither the reader nor Dirt and Socks are really invested in their quest.
There are seeds there of what could've been the actual underlying tensions- Socks is being hunted by a mysterious enemy, Dirt found out he may be responsible for the apocalypse, something happened to the gods, whatever those are. The problem is that Dirt and Socks are completely ignoring these things in a way that just makes them seem uninterested and that makes them uninteresting to me as a reader.
Roughly each chapter something happens without connecting to any other event or having real stakes. Dirt and Socks learn something about the world and/or they do a thing for the first time. The issue is that it's mostly not that interesting to read about, no matter whether they're fighting a horde of enemies that they effortlessly retreat from after getting bored with slaughtering them or they are helping someone else make bread or roast meat. Sometime events bring up an interesting question about the history of the world and it's current state but they immediately decide they can't learn more about it now so there's no point worrying about it. To be clear none of these are bad in isolation, what the book actually lacks is any sense of tension or progress to tie all these disparate pieces together.
The new adult human characters aren't terribly interesting either. They've been around since the very first chapter and we still only have the very roughest idea of what they're trying to do and neither the reader nor Dirt and Socks are really invested in their quest.
There are seeds there of what could've been the actual underlying tensions- Socks is being hunted by a mysterious enemy, Dirt found out he may be responsible for the apocalypse, something happened to the gods, whatever those are. The problem is that Dirt and Socks are completely ignoring these things in a way that just makes them seem uninterested and that makes them uninteresting to me as a reader.
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June 24, 2025
So Great!
I gave the first book of this series a poor review. I didn't even finish it, but I had already bought book 2, but never read it. I started book 2 a few days ago and because I didn't remember much about book 1, it didn't make much sense to me. I decided to reread the last half of book 1, including the section I hadn't finished, then read book 2. Book 2 is absolutely awesome! Dirt and Socks are the best duo I have ever encountered in a series. I highly recommend this series. Read book 1, which is slow and somewhat weird, try and not skim too much. Then the big reward is book 2!
I gave the first book of this series a poor review. I didn't even finish it, but I had already bought book 2, but never read it. I started book 2 a few days ago and because I didn't remember much about book 1, it didn't make much sense to me. I decided to reread the last half of book 1, including the section I hadn't finished, then read book 2. Book 2 is absolutely awesome! Dirt and Socks are the best duo I have ever encountered in a series. I highly recommend this series. Read book 1, which is slow and somewhat weird, try and not skim too much. Then the big reward is book 2!
November 17, 2025
Same review as the first one, but even more so.
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