Yeah, I am hooked and all into the dungeon post apocalyptic world. Granted, I love dystopian literature, so the bar is low for my interest, but here we are.
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario,
The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook,
The Gate of the Feral Gods
The Butcher’s Masquerade
My knowledge of Dungeon’s and Dragons and Magic is really just adjacent knowledge from living with a teenage boy many years ago. If it were more a personal understanding, I would probably enjoy these books even more, but I am already hooked and enthralled, so obsession is not really needed.
The genre is a mash up of sci-fi/post-apocalypse/RPG/Reality TV show. Which sounds like it wouldn’t work. Except it does. This is where the magic of this writer makes it come alive. World building is a tough task in sci-fi, yet every book has a well-developed world and culture, along with expanding character development and secondary players. The NPC become increasingly important to the story arc and Carl’s development.
Series often eventually get to rehashing previous books with slight differences in story line. Carl and Donut however face new and increasingly insane scripts and challenges. The reality tv show aspect is getting exposed more on each level and the universe overlords are becoming a bit twitchy. It isn’t going as they scripted, or expected. HEY! Much like real life!
The latest book has such depth of complexity, ethical challenges and rage that it is built for this timeline. A book that can make you think, make comparisons and bring tears to your eyes is a book worth your precious reading time.
Yeah, these books will keep you up at night reading. Or listening. The audio version is spectacular – like a full on performance, not just a reading. If you are wondering why Carl is fighting demons, orcs, monsters and feral gods in a pair of boxer shorts, grab these read on.
5+++ stars.
