Dungeons  Dragons The Fallbacks De..., Jaleigh Johnson
Dungeons  Dragons The Fallbacks De..., Jaleigh Johnson
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Fallbacks: Dealing with Dragons

Author: Jaleigh Johnson

Narrator: Lauren Fortgang

Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/29/2025


Synopsis

In this Dungeons & Dragons novel, the Fallbacks rush to balance the scales before a draconic foe reaps their cleric’s soul.

When the day is threatened by tyrannical foes or monstrous fiends, the people of Faerûn place their trust in the realm’s mighty heroes. When the mighty heroes don’t show up, they get the Fallbacks.

The team: A flamboyant bard with a bandstand’s worth of secrets. A wizard whose thirst for knowledge leads her to triumph and trouble. A virtuous fighter with a family that’s anything but. A cunning rogue just trying to keep everyone together.

And then there’s the party’s cleric. Baldric has always had an unorthodox approach to divinity. While other folk of faith hitch their wagons to one god or another, this cleric figures that if his magic and might can serve many gods and reap the rewards of the entire pantheon, everyone wins. But there’s a price to be paid for the power to protect Faerûn. And every debt must one day be collected.

Baldric finds himself cut off from his connection to the divine when a mysterious and otherworldly entity starts to invade his negotiations. And this entity wants more than Baldric’s service—it wants his soul.

The Fallbacks race to free their cleric from his shadowy debtholder, but the heat is on—in more ways than one—because the being trying to lay claim to Baldric isn’t exactly a god. Forget striking bargains with deities. To get out of this jam, the Fallbacks will have to deal with dragons.

About The Author

Jaleigh Johnson lives and writes in the wilds of the Midwest. Her debut middle grade novel, The Mark of the Dragonfly, was a New York Times bestseller. Her other books include The Secrets of Solace, The Quest to the Uncharted Lands, and The Door to the Lost. She has also written fiction for Marvel and Dungeons and Dragons: Forgotten Realms, including The Fallbacks: Bound for Ruin and Honor Among Thieves: Road to Neverwinter. Johnson is an avid gamer and lifelong geek.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike on March 23, 2025

I'll be honest: I didn't expect this to be good. A lot of people who write "licensed" fiction are, let's face it, hacks - and hacks who, all too often, don't have much of a grasp of the basic mechanics of prose. This author is better than that, and better than the average writer in general. Because......more

Goodreads review by Martin on March 26, 2025

Random House provided an early galley for review. I have read several of the author's Marvel novels in the past. This is the second book in the new series of Dungeons and Dragons novels by her (the first, The Fallbacks: Bound For Ruin, came out in 2024 and slipped under my radar). This novel opens wit......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on June 28, 2025

Read as an ARC from Netgalley: This was fantastic, easy to pick up Dungeons & Dragons book with a fantastic cast. Despite not reading the first book, I was easily able to pick up on the characters, and their dynamics. Johnson does a great job writing fleshed out, 3-dimensional characters, who all have......more

Goodreads review by Dan on May 28, 2025

My thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Del Rey, Random House Worlds, Inklore for an advance copy of this fantasy novel, the second in a series, dealing with a group of adventurers dealing with internal and external problems, problems that could mean the end of their fledgling adv......more

Goodreads review by Meredith on March 25, 2025

Oh, this was a delicious read. The Fallbacks are back, and things are bigger than ever (and given what they dealt with last time, that might be a big surprise). Ashardalon is back, for one thing! And he's not the only one. As before, this adventure deftly combines charming characters with a rollicking......more