Just can’t fault any of it - ticks all boxes and really get the imagination going. This was my first time reading this genre & I must say I’ve been blown away with the concept & high adrenaline story telling. You'd need to dig into the most bizarre and well-written History tomes to find anything better.Ībsolutely Amazing - this book series just got better and better & I cannot wait to hear what happens next. Each book is getting better and better, but there is considerable world building (and destruction). But if you've gotten this far, you already know all this.

As mentioned, I followed the cold read for this, but he's upped the quality even more in the post. Meanwhile, great characters, constant menace, fun dialog, great combat, crunchy leveling details, absolutely everything good in a litRPG series. I was there as Matt book five sent Jeff into two minute laugh breakdown. Matt Dinniman is a master of set-up and payoff. I listened to all of Jeff Hays' cold reads for this book. I've gone back and forth through the series five times now, picking up on more and more throwaway moments that ended up being important later. Every chapter, every arc, often every sentence has a later payoff.

Even Carl hasn't matched Shackleton's level of insane plans yet. Other genres have better books, such as North by Shackleton or Memoirs by Grant, these have real life insanity that's hard to compete with. 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. Perhaps the best plotted SF series ever writtenĪs a long-time fantasy and science fiction reader, I try to read everything good.

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