• Obligations Incurred

  • Delvers LLC, Book 2
  • By: Blaise Corvin
  • Narrated by: Jeff Hays
  • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3,804 ratings)

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Obligations Incurred

By: Blaise Corvin
Narrated by: Jeff Hays
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Publisher's summary

Henry and Jason somehow survived being kidnapped to Ludus, a monster-filled, sword and sorcery world. They managed to make friends, pay their rent, and they even founded their own adventuring business, Delvers LLC.

Unfortunately, by overcoming the odds and creating a reputation for themselves in such short time, monarchs and nobles have taken notice of the two men from Earth. Foreign, deadly struggles may be unavoidable for Delvers LLC.

Henry and Jason are about to discover something even more dangerous than murderous monsters on Ludus: politics.

©2017 Blaise Corvin (P)2017 Blaise Corvin

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A Little Too Preachy

Obligations Incurred is the second entry in Blaise Colvin’s Delver’s LLC series and I probably would have benefited from listening to or reading the first.

After a brief catch up I was thrown into a world with RPG-esque rules and characteristics. The magic system was interesting and the book seemed promising.

However, about a quarter of the way into the book it becomes REALLY preachy and SJW-y. I felt like I was being lectured at. From there on it was just OK. I completed the book mostly out of a sense of (wait for it) Obligation Incurred.

Narrator, Jeff Hays, does a fine job. He deftly handles the various accents of different human nationalities and non-humans alike. I would listen to another book he narrates.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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Decent battle, lots of emo, not much else

Would you try another book from Blaise Corvin and/or Jeff Hays?

Narrator is fine. Author needs to reign in the emo. Not much happens in this book except one pretty bad ass battle. And lots and lots of emotional anguish/introspection from the characters... Get over it already.

Would you ever listen to anything by Blaise Corvin again?

ehhh.... might give the next one a try. The world and overall premise is super creative. Cut/edit out the emotional introspection that made up about a third of this book and it would have been a great short story. Seriously a huge part of the book is the characters struggling with their feelings. Weak.

What about Jeff Hays’s performance did you like?

Solid. Rock on dude.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Not sure how so much emotion and self introspection would be captured in a film. Close up of a tear rolling down a cheek? Then a close up of the next character with a tear rolling down their cheek? And so on... Needs way more world building and plot development. Way, way more.

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how to ruin a book

book was doing fine until it spent more than 30 minutes talking about earth politics, transgenderism, gays and religion.
after that I stopped listening to it and dropped the book series since it stopped being a sci-fi and fantasy book and turned into a book about politics.

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Flawed

Yet another auther who has turned a novel, a work of fiction meant for entertainment, into a promotional speach on gay rights. Some works use this type of thing to support a story or to build the world they are set in but this surprisingly errant section of the story didnt add anything needed. The whole "thirsty" section seemed tacked on and completely detracted from the story. In the authers defence it could be that the auther felt this had to be put in in order to avoid criticism on the world setting, i.e. polygamy, but as his writing never depreciates women down in any way, it doesnt seem very thought out. In fact far from degrading women, it goes so far as to put women in most serious positions of power even within the family units. Still an interesting story and i will be trying the next one, i only hope this was a passing phase of the story.

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messed up a decent start.

the entire Thirsty storyline was cringe-worthy offensive and poorly written and that was the good news. I liked the first book but this one went off the rails.

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stopped telling story, started pushing ideology

skipped a lot because it stopped moving the story forward and started pushing reasoning for gay acceptance. it's fine, but the story was lost In it.

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Not complete

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the book and liked the characters a lot more in this one (the first book had too much self deprecation and loathing). The story was interesting and makes you want to continue.

But, it does not feel like a complete book and more like a small stepping stone.

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Not as good as book one, jarring but still interesting enough to get book 3 and see if the author made the same mistakes again

This book was not as good as book one. Far too little progression in the story compared to characters internal monologue. I appreciate the character building to an extent but a good amount of it is monologues that build traits that have already been established. I think this book could be a good bridge into a better 3rd book but overall was not impressed. The character called thirsty completely broke my “trance” of being in ludus and made the whole story feel completely ridiculous. I understand how it would theoretically make sense in the context of the universe given the characteristics of the great god dolos but I have to say that I feel like the whole character was an excuse for the author to spit his two cents about current political and social issues on earth regarding sexuality and gay people and while I have no issue with this on principle I think that having too many personal feelings from the author and long sections about something unrelated to this world on top of the character them-self being ridiculous and OP completely detracts from the gravity and seriousness of the events that transpire. It’s not that the author didn’t make these things happen in a way that could all be theoretically justified and make sense in the context of Dolos personality considering this is his world but I think they were unnecessary and heavily detracted from this story. It was a short one as is and didn’t need any extra crap. It feels like a book that was put out to placate and entertain until the release of book three which I understand but am not necessarily happy about. I would still recommend the series, and the performance is great (because he can do fairly convincing girl voices), but this book was much weaker than book one.

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Good but not as good as number one

listen I liked the first book a lot but the author spends an extremely long time talking about homosexuality and religion. I don't mind listening to this stuff but it took way to long to get through that and it made me almost return the book. If I wanted to hear liberal or conservatives argue about political issues I would turn on the news for a while not spend 13$ on a fantasy book. The only other problem I had was how much of a stereotype the only homosexual person is portrayed.

Yet it was still a pretty good book. The narrator never disappoints and most of the story is interesting.

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Excellent story

I really loved book one, this book was also very fun. It did feel short however and there were a few parts dealing with Jason and Henry's introductory speeches about "Thirsty" that seemed quite preachy and a little out of place. Also, "Thirsty" seemed rather stereotypical as if the author watched a few minutes of an overly referenced tv program and then attempted to mix that show and some racial preconceptions togeather to form his character. I do like the way Corvin is keeping his story on the move and I'm really looking forward to the next book.

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