Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is Ten Things I Loved About Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman – I mentioned this series and its first book last week, have since finished it, and am completely addicted and here’s why:
10) The quirky, nerdiness of the whole series.
9) The moral grayness of every character. No one is purely good, instead each character is a varying shade of gray.
8) Carl – he is not the person you’d expect to have a cat side-kick but I love his creative problem solving and his quick thinking.
7) The whole playing a game for survival is very Hunger Games or Divergent-esque.
6) The alien talk show circuit is quite an interesting aspect.
5) The actioned packed nature of the story with loads of twists, turns, and thrills. There is never a dull moment.
4) All the snark and lol humor – I’m there for it!
3) The RPG-ness of it all. I don’t know what I think of Berkley coining a new genre they are calling RPGLit but I do love the RPGness of the story. It’s relatable and brings more humor.
2) The catch phrase – “Goddamnit, Donut.” When I first received merch with the catchphrase (before I read the book), I wondered why they were sending me merch with profanity, but after I read the book – I wanted it on everything. It becomes so funny!
1) DONUT – Princess Donut to be exact – Princess Donut is a show cat (Persian) and is full of sass and spunk as you would expect from a cat. In this story, she is a full-fledged talking character rather than just a pet which is awesome!
The apocalypse will be televised!
You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. That’s what.
Join Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, as they try to survive the end of the world—or just get to the next level—in a video game–like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon. A dungeon that’s actually the set of a reality television show with countless viewers across the galaxy. Exploding goblins. Magical potions. Deadly, drug-dealing llamas. This ain’t your ordinary game show.
What’s a book you’d want to do a top ten for?
10 responses to “Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Things I LOVE About Dungeon Crawler Carl (and why you need to read it)”
Love this format. I would sure enjoy action packed nature of the story. Great review, Tessa!
I do too!
It sounds like you enjoyed everything about this one, Tessa.
It’s just got all the components that I love
This definitely sounds like a lot of fun to read.
So much fun!
What an absolutely fabulous title!
It’s a very interesting series – totally addictive
How have I not heard of this? It speaks to me on so many levels.
I can’t imagine you wouldn’t love this as much as I do. It’s just everything I could ask for in a story. Originally it was indie published I think (I looked up the pub and I couldn’t find anything about them) but Berkley has picked it up, redesigned the covers, done some editing (I would imagine) and they are putting it out starting next month – #2 in Sept and #3 in Oct