Will I love Dungeon Crawler Carl?

Exceptional, despite the oodles of death. Think Maze Runner meets Ready Player One meets Hunger Games, with a dash of Highlander.
Loved the characters. Loved the morals. Loved the Running Man moments. And the aliens. ALL THE ALIENS.
I stayed up far too late trying to finish it, then stayed in bed the rest of the morning finishing it. After reading this I binged the rest of the series, and I’m waiting impatiently for book #9!

How do I convince you to read a book with as ludicrous a title as "Dungeon Crawler Carl," with as ludicrous main characters as a loser boyfriend and his cheating girlfriend's prize-winning Persian cat, and with as ludicrous a premise as aliens have leveled our planet and turned it into a role-playing game for a galaxy-wide TV reality show with surviving humans as contestants? It sounds stupid. It shouldn't work. I shouldn't like it.

But every character runs deep and grows over time. Every plotline thickens and surprises. Every subtle point, background detail, and motivating event builds tension, creates… show more.

What happens when Earth turns into a competition to the death, all for the entertainment of alien cultures around the universe? Well, you get an eminently engrossing tale that my husband and I have been reading aloud to each other! 

As a cat mom, I've completely fallen for Princess Donut the Chonk. She is imperious, yet her vulnerability shines through too. Carl is a fine hero, as he grapples with his morals and grows in his ability to save others.

My husband and I are hooked. We're literally reading the series aloud to each other, complete with a watery accent… show more.

This one leans heavier on the laughter, lighter on the thinking—but sometimes a little bit of fun is exactly what I need.

It’s a chaotic mash-up of The Hunger Games and Ready Player One, except with far more laughs and a talking cat. It’s the first in a long series (which I admittedly haven’t finished yet), but even on its own it’s a blast: action-packed, darkly funny, and weirdly endearing.

I fell in love with the two main characters and happily followed them into the madness.

I kept seeing recommendations for this book on Shepherd, but I was reluctant to try it. Many years ago, I tried a progressive fantasy book, and it left a bad taste in my mouth. This was a colossal mistake on my part because Dungeon Crawler Carl is a work of genius. 

This book is one of the funniest, most beautiful books I have ever read. The satire is biting, and I love the characters from the bottom of my heart. If you love the TV show “Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” you will love the dark, absurd humor of this… show more.

Amazing series of books. Fun, exciting, poignant at times and with great plotting. Listen to the audiobooks if you can, you won't be disappointed!

LitRPG was never a genre I read until I kept getting hammered over the head with this book in all my online book groups. As soon as I read the first page, I was completely hooked! So funny, so fresh, so original, Carl is a main character we can't help but root for. Even though the odds are stacked against him, Carl keeps plugging along and surviving.

At times, this book is heartbreaking, but there's one consistent thread through the entire series: hope. You can't help but fall in love with all these characters and root for them to… show more.

I love apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic books. I like seeing how people act when the rules are changed, and everything is on the line, and Dinniman has some really creative ideas on how to change the rules!

The result is a bit grimmer than in my own series, with plenty of horror and trauma, but with enough levity and wholesome moments between the main cast to keep it from feeling bleak. Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk is a surprisingly deep character and a personal favorite.

This series is the most FUN I have had reading in a long, long time. It's bonkers, off-the-wall, and hilarious at times, but there really is solid substance, emotion, character development, and heart to it, too. I'm so mad I binge-read the first six books in under a month because now I have to wait for the next book and I'm so impatient!

As someone who enjoys roleplaying games and laughter, this book was exactly what I needed. In Dungeon Crawler Carl, humanity is forced into a giant, life and death, for real RPG. It's horrible but absurdly funny at once. I recommend that you listen to this as an audio book for a next level experience. I read a lot of books for kids, but this, despite the humor, is for an adult audience.