I had tried a LITRPG series before and just couldn’t get into it. I then came across a review for Dungeon Crawler Carl where the writer said they initially passed over it too, but finally read it… and loved it. So I bought and listened to the first book… and proceeded to buy the entire series. The relationship between Carl and his sidekick cat Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk is the best character pairing I’ve seen in a long time. The story takes well known RPG genres and puts them together but manages to make it unique and all its own. You can’t help but wonder what you would do if you were in Carl’s situation and if you could make it as a crawler and survive the Dungeon. The voice acting just makes it even better. So level up your book collection, raise that intellect stat, and remember to kill, kill, kill! (And no shoes or pants allowed).