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Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

8 reviews

jes7037's review

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I loved every second of this book. It made me laugh out loud so many times with its dark, absurd, satirical humor. My favorite bits were when the AI gave info about items and achievements, including the most ridiculous over-the-top pop culture references, memes, and jokes.
Princess Donut is clearly the best character, but Carl is also great and pretty relatable. I'm looking forward to seeing more Mongo in the next book, especially when he starts to get bigger.
The voice acting was also really good, and they conveyed Carl's exasperation (usually with Donut) just perfectly. 
I can't wait to continue the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Body horror, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Dementia, Drug use, Grief, Gun violence, and Infidelity

sonygaystation's review

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

This book is lots of fun! It started out trending a little “Masculine Author”, y’know the kind… but it was a brief blip in an otherwise very amusing book. I loved the potshots taken at popular gamer culture, especially as someone who is Terminally Online™️ and into D&D, MTG, video games, etc 🫡 I would rate this higher if it was a little less formulaic and repetitive, and used the word “plummeted” less. But none of those things detract from my enjoyment of the book at all! They’re just things that keep me from rating it higher - but I can’t wait to read the next one!! I just have to wait until it even appears at ALL on Libby let alone being able to put a hold on it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Cursing

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Suicide, Sexual content, Child death, and Gun violence

lonelylooper's review

adventurous dark funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Genocide, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Child death, Dementia, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Fatphobia, Addiction, Cursing, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

hannahelaine's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny inspiring lighthearted tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Fun! Devastating! Well-rounded and loveable characters! The horror of corporations and becoming naught but a tool in its machine! Keeping your humanity and kindness in impossible situations! The horrific loss of life for both the “good guys” and the “monsters” they must kill to survive, and the morality of it all!  Funny and clever! I loved it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Gore, Body horror, Gun violence, Blood, Violence, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, and Cursing

Moderate: Racism and Sexual harassment

samikki's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Dungeon Crawler Carl is first-person pop-culture-referencing easygoing light adventure in the style of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, Dennis E. Taylor's Bobiverse or books from John Scalzi or Andy Weir. It's a first LitRPG book I've read - perhaps not that extreme but a fun introduction to genre anyway. LitRPGs are a bit like games that you read, containing statistics, skill levels and scores for the main characters. I was a bit sceptical about the genre but it ended up being good entertainment.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Blood, and Death

Minor: Animal cruelty, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Excrement, Cursing, and Adult/minor relationship

All content is in a game-like setting.

morallygraynesta's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

I thought this was going to be closer to Dungeons and Daddies or The Adventure Zone in level of silliness. Although it’s still pretty goofy it does touch on darker subjects and has a depth I wasn’t expecting. My one big issue is with Carl, he’s supposed to be 27 but he feels like a 50+ self-insert character. I’ve been told this gets better as the series continues

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

toris_stories1's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

This was my first LitRPG, but I really enjoyed it. I also laughed out loud so many times while reading! Highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Cursing

Moderate: Murder and Sexual content

npscott's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Oh ok, now I understand what a LitRPG book is really about.
I was hesitant to start this type of book as I thought it wouldn't really be for me.
But after reading The Cradle series I want to start another series or standalone before deciding if I want to continue these types of books.  Man, I am so glad I chose to listen to BookTubers and Discord and started reading Dungeon Crawler Carl.  I couldn't put this book down.  I wanted to know what the next room, monster, boss, and other crawlers had in store for Carl and of course Princess Donut.
What did I like about this book?  The characters, the concepts, the world building, and Princess Donut and her interactions with Carl.  The characters are diverse with our main characters seeing a good amount of development and advancement during this first book.  The concept...well I can't really get into it without spoiling the beginning of the book.  Trust me it is interesting. The world building - well first it is not such as building but again spoilers, but interesting enough to continue with the series.  
What didn't I like about the book?  Really, there was not much to dislike about this book. But personally, I couldn't recommend this book to younger readers.  This is due to some adult jokes and language.  So, reader or parent beware.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Violence, Blood, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, and War