Dungeon Crawler Carl is the highest quality SF&F series I've read. The stuff not in the movie, not quite as good. Most good series have a good core but various poor parts that get glossed over. Well done.Perhaps the best plotted SF series ever writtenĪs a long-time fantasy and science fiction reader, I try to read everything good. I've said it before and I'll say it again - this series is fast becoming one of the greats in the genre. I still had laugh out loud moments (make sure you listen to the end credits!) and it was still a joy to join the characters on their journey. If you haven't, you should go back and start at book one (don't jump in here) as there are lots of references to previous events and no summary at the start. If you've read / listened to the first two books, you'll still love this one. Anyway, a minor issue in the scheme of things. Really, I would have preferred that the book just be confusing to the MC but /not/ the reader, full stop. Which is fine I guess, but that still doesn't translate well to audiobooks where you can't flip back and forth between pages when you want to clarify something mentioned earlier. Like super confusing, to the point that if you read the digital (non-audio) version of the book the author has a note at the start which literally warns its readers about as much, telling them to not stress about trying to remember layouts as the floor is deliberately meant to be confusing. But that said, it's still a clear and easy 5 stars and better than another other litrpg / gamelit / audiobook of any genre that I've listened to this year.with the exception of the first two books. DCC#3 (in my opinion) isn't quite as good as the first two books. I'm glad I listened to this one first, because without Jeff Hays, I'd have hated this one, and I loved the other books in the series. It's a mystery LitRPG, without anything a mystery is supposed to have.

You're like, 'What the hell is even going on?' There's no legit progression aside from movement toward next to nothing, and the entire story is a mess, followed by '.tadaaa.' I honestly didn't even care about what was going on by the end, even with the great characters and superb voice acting I was like 'just let this bullshit finish already.' It's not like you can just ignore it, since all the characters do is act confused about shit the entire story with no real goal other than 'get down more stairs.' And it's not like you can Sherlock Holmes the ending with the shitty clues. Once everything is explained you get it, but its used a gimmicky puzzle where the clues tell you literally nothing for a payoff that's alright at best but it doesn't make up for the rest of the story being a cluster fuck. The characters are still great, the series is still good, it's still funny but this story is annoying.

Butcher's masquerade audiobook