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A Parade of Horribles

Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 8

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By: Matt Dinniman
Narrated by: Jeff Hays
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It’s off to the races in the explosive eighth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.

As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they’re forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon.

Races. Get from point A to point B, and don’t come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple.

Ignore those strange glitches that are occurring with increasing frequency. Don’t listen to those whispers about what’s happening on the mysterious eleventh floor, something the system AI calls A Parade of Horribles. Nobody, not even the showrunners, knows what that means. Just that the AI has ominously dubbed it “a coming-out party for the ages.”

Everything is fine, Crawler. I repeat, everything is fine.

Carl hates that it’s business as usual. The rules of this floor have taken away his agency. That just will not do.

So Carl is planning a party of his own. It’s a plan so dangerous, so insane, he can’t even consult his friends lest the AI put a stop to it. Because if it goes wrong, it’s not just the end of Carl and Donut. No. The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been.

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Another great book, even better than the last. my only problem is it's getting predictable, now I not saying I know what's coming next but everything always goes wrong, every plan goes wrong. This is how it goes. Get onto new floor and starts to make plan and it goes wrong, comes up with crazy plan that starts off well then something happens and it all goes wrong, Carl does something stupid to try and save as many people as he can. At this point it would be more surprising to see a plan go exactly the was it was supposed to.

Getting predictable.

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Jeff Hays is phenomenal as always, but Matt stumbled with this one. It's not a bad book per se, but nowhere near the excellence of previous ones. Even my 4 star rating might be an overstatement. There's too much focus on NPCs, too few new items or achievements and the "gamified" things were almost non existent. First half of the book I felt almost boring at times. It was jarring especially after the emotional rollercoaster of the ending of previous book (I was seriously let down by the handling of Lee Na situation). Hopefully Matt will pick up the pace in the next part.

Why are you giving 5 stars when you know the quality dropped?

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I like the words the come out my head phones when I press play. I like to get high and listen

was good

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Best book get and I really, really think they couldn’t top the others
Well worth you’re credit

Boop 😜

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Slightly slow at the beginning but by the end you're utterly gripped. The story is great but Jeff's narration truly takes it to another level

Jeff knocks it out of the park again

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