Synopsis:
The apocalypse will be televised!
A man. His ex-girlfriend’s cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible.
In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth – from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds – collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground.
The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe.
Only a few dare venture inside. But once you’re in, you can’t get out. And what’s worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it’s game over. In this game, it’s not about your strength or your dexterity. It’s about your followers, your views. Your clout. It’s about building an audience and killing those goblins with style.
You can’t just survive here. You gotta survive big.
You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up and cheer. And if you do have that “it” factor, you may just find yourself with a following. That’s the only way to truly survive in this game – with the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy.
They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it’s anything but a game.
Review:
This is a series I’ve heard a lot of people talk about, so I finally gave in and decided to give it a try. I started my journey with the audiobook – and what a wild ride it turned out to be 🙂 If you have the option, I highly recommend the audio version. It adds so much to the sheer madness of the story, pulling you in and making the characters feel even more alive.
The story itself is one of the wildest rides I can remember. It brings together:
- an alien invasion
- a video game (RPG) coming to life
- Hunger Games–style vibes
- reality TV elements
- countless social and cultural references
- and Carl, who very clearly loves Donut more than he initially lets on 🙂
The humor is one of the book’s biggest strengths, and the narration delivers it effortlessly. I had so much fun going along for this chaotic ride. The story is different, unapologetically over-the-top, and doesn’t take itself too seriously. Toward the end, a few elements started to feel a bit repetitive, but overall it was a unique, slightly unhinged, and highly entertaining experience, and I was absolutely here for it.
🌙 Recension: Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl #1) by Matt Dinniman
📚 Genre: Fantasy, Humor, Fiction, Dystopia
📅 Release Date: January 28, 2021
📖 Publisher: Audible Studios
👤 Narrator: Jeff Hays
📗 available in various formats – included in Kindle Unlimited
📱 Read as: Audiobook
💸 Bought
🗣️ Language: English
📆 Pages / Listening Length: 13h 31min
⭐️ 4/5
Interested in more?
- Review: Water and the Wild by L. C. Winters
- Audiobook: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
- Review: Scars by A.S. Koutso
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