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The Butcher's Masquerade

Matt Dinniman

4.57 AVERAGE

toddyflowers's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

orian57's review

5.0

adventurous dark funny medium-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: No

k3nd3l3's review

4.25

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring tense 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: Yes

bigblueut's review against another edition

5.0

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merciless_otter's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark funny inspiring tense 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: Yes

padthaibadguy's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense 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: Yes

ali3man's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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so much space politics 

tabstraction's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

protestmyboredom's review

4.25

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Great as are the others! Very close and some sad losses plus worrisome future problems coming to light. I’m very intrigued by all of the action occurring outside the stage too- with the sponsors, lawsuits, and crawl ownership and political party change-ups. Plus I’m curious how far the AI will go. 

frasersimons's review against another edition

3.0

dark funny tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Another fun instalment. More world building and sub plots make for an easy read, but it also has a pretty unsatisfying payoff for something brewing since, basically the first book. It bugged me it was teased for so long and ended up serving zero purpose, at least in this book. 

The narrative voice continues to evoke dissonance too, making the first person Carl voice have very strange ticks, such as saying “upon” and other proper English corrections, rather than having Carl use an organic, blue collar cadence and verbiage. Meanwhile he often has access to information to dump on the reader when convenient. I know it’s commercial fiction, but it continues to hamper the otherwise immersive and fun ride the series continues to be.