Rating: 4.75⭐️
“I want to try one of Miss Beatrice’s favorite drinks. ….What is it, Carl? She always says it’s her Kryptonite.”
“A Dirty Shirley,” I said.
“Yeah, I want to try that one.”
“Cats don’t drink cocktails,” I said. “Cats don’t shoot lasers from their eyes, either, but here we are, Carl. Mama needs a night off.””
So we dive back into Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, the second book in Matt Dinniman’s wildly imaginative, incredibly violent , action packed series, Dungeon Crawler Carl.
Carl, Princess Donut, and their NPC handler, Mordecai, are at a bar/multi function area where they can gather supplies and information about their next level as well as prepare for their next moves against their opponents.
It’s another great thriller, a fast-paced game where all the RPG elements are set in motion, but Dinniman simultaneously evolves the character relationships between Carl, Donut, and even Mordecai, a NPC who’s character has hidden elements. So the story has a murder mystery to solve revolving around dead prostitutes, there’s a deadly circus (naturally), and other wildly imaginative creatures, personalities and beasts to combat and meet on their way to the next level.
This is an absolutely brutal game and story. At each level, millions of humans are being lost to the game. And while Carl,Princess Donut, and Donut’s new pet velociraptor, Mongo, and some other new comers are intensely concerned about surviving whatever level they are on and the other combatants, occasionally the outside galactic gallery of watchers and owners interfaces with them in a manner that makes them realize exactly what they’re facing.
These stories are fast paced reads and the ending will flow through to the next book.
No romance, high action, adventure.
You don’t have to be a gamer to enjoy it, but if you are you’ll under it and all the elements immediately.
Highly recommended.
These are, book by book, the most incredible, on point illustrations for covers. Colors are popping, the characters are spot on! Amazing artwork!
Cover Illustration by Luciano Fleitas
Cover Design by Toby Dinniman
Interior Illustrations by Erik Wilson
Series not complete/Dungeon Crawler Carl:
Dungeon Crawler Carl #1
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario #2
The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook #3
The Gate of the Feral Gods #4
The Butcher’s Masquerade #5
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride #6
This Inevitable Ruin #7
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Carl’s Doomsday Scenario: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 2
Blurb
The training levels have concluded. Now the games may truly begin.”
The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can’t get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive.
They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered prostitutes rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose.
Carl still has no pants.
They call it Dungeon Crawler World. For Carl and Donut, it’s anything but a game.
- Publisher: Dandy House
- Accessibility: Learn more
- Publication date: January 6, 2021
- Language: English
- Print length: 364 pages
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 