Dungeon Crawler Carl Series: Dungeon Crawler Carl #1 Published by Penguin Group on August 27, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Fantasy / Action & Adventure, Fiction / LitRPG (Literary Role-Playing Game), Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
Pages: 464
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The apocalypse will be televised! Welcome to the first book in the wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman—now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition.
You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. That’s what.
Join Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, as they try to survive the end of the world—or just get to the next level—in a video game–like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon. A dungeon that’s actually the set of a reality television show with countless viewers across the galaxy. Exploding goblins. Magical potions. Deadly, drug-dealing llamas. This ain’t your ordinary game show.
Welcome, Crawler. Welcome to the Dungeon. Survival is optional. Keeping the viewers entertained is not.
Includes part one of the exclusive bonus story “Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret.”
Review:
Dungeon Crawler Carl is the fun, gaming quirk novel you did not know you needed to read. Princess Donut (the cat) and boxer-wearing Carl are so fun. In a time when things can get dark, there is still a sense of comedy in the story. You’re killing things and people to survive, but you add the quirkiness of the loot boxes, the silly interviews, and the whole character of the cat as a player, and you have a great story that spans six books. The original was published as a self-published series, but now, random houses produce new covers. You can read the entire series currently on Kindle Unlimited, and the first three are being created with new covers and will come out over the next three months. Book one is scheduled to be released on August 27 with a new cover.
About Matt Dinniman
Matt Dinniman is a writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington. He is the author of the best-selling Dungeon Crawler Carl series along with several other books about the end of the world. He doesn’t really hate Cocker Spaniels, and he plays bass in two bands.
This one sounds really good! Great review!