Houston we have a problem…I only found Dungeon Crawler Carl a few weeks ago and I’m already done with book 4 and the 5th floor. And lets be honest I’ve really already read book 5 because I just couldn’t wait. That means I’ll be out of books soon…and what will I do without a weekly dose of Princess Donut, Mongo and Carl.
Matt Dinniman, what have you done to me with your series with fantastic plucky characters, a more and more unstable AI, a competition like survival game that is televised and some big intergalactic shenanigans. Anytime I start one of these books I just can’t stop listening to them, since the audio is fantastic.
After all the plucky humans banded together in the last book to beat the level, the alien show producers have come up with a way to separate them all and “randomly” placed bubbles. Each has four quadrants and you need to basically capture the flag in all four before the stairs down to the next level will be available. Mongo is appalled!!! One of the quadrants is underwater and Donut is adamant she is not going into the water. She has yet to learn she can’t say stuff like that out loud, the AI is always listening and it’s sense of humor can be a touch sadistic, just ask Carl who still doesn’t have any pants.
“Spoiler alert. Nobody is going to read your autobiography disguised as a space vampire and minotaur romance. You and every other half-wit out there with a nearby Starbucks and a laptop is writing the same bile. What you’re really doing is inadvertently live-blogging the story of human mediocrity,”
Carl is ramping up the violence and his ingenuity. If nothing else he is proving that the human spirit is hard to crush and he will find a way to break them all. Donut is hilarious as always and Katia grew on me quite a bit this time around.
I’m eating these up like a googly-eyed walrus slurping spaghetti at a clown convention! (<—Thanks Grok)
New characters, new quests, an encounter with a god and a talking sex doll head just to round out some of the ridiculousness that makes these so much fun. Also an Octoshark!!!
With that interesting reveal at the end, I can’t wait to see what is in store for Humanities last hope on the 6th floor. Happy Hunting everyone.
Narration:
Performance: ★★★★★
Character Separation: ★★★★★
Diction: ★★★★
Pacing/Flow: ★★★★★
Sound Effects: Minor
Jeff Hayes performance continues to be pure fun. I loved the over the top narration that fit the story so well. Great catchphrase! I still believe some of my enjoyment of this series is due to the audio production of it. Still a seriously great time and I couldn’t put it down once I started.