The Butcher's Masquerade

, #5

(15 reviews)

A lush jungle teeming with danger. Savage dinosaurs seeking blood. A fallen princess intent on vengeance. A mysterious, end-of-floor celebration for the top crawlers, dubbed “The Butcher’s Masquerade.”

The sixth floor. The Hunting Grounds.

As the remaining crawlers battle for their lives, a new, terrible threat looms. Outside tourists are finally allowed to enter the game, and they are here and ready to hunt. Among them is Vrah, a famed and veteran hunter, intent on collecting the biggest trophy of her career.

But their prey is far from harmless, and this season they are fighting back.

Dungeon Crawler Carl and Princess Donut return in book five of the acclaimed litrpg series.

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reviewed The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)

Great pace

I'm not sure what he changed, but the pace of this book is great. Multiple threats and story beats combined with real character development and a very sad / dark epilogue.

Carl and Donut feel a lot more in tune with each other since the vulnerability in the last book.

Loved Samantha. The audiobook version of her is amazing. When Dinniman introduced a character who was literally a latex sex doll's head I worried that we were jumping the shark but there were so many genuinely laugh out loud scenes with her.

I'm expecting the next book to pause the dungeon plot and develop the outside world a bit more, so I'm interested to see how that's handled or whether I'm completely wrong.

reviewed The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)

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Önceki kitapların güzelliğinin biraz gerisinde kalmış, çoğunlukla olağan "problem üretme ve bunu çözme" temasında ama görece dingin bir akışta ilerliyor. İki noktada çok fena yükseltti beni ve okurken ağladım. Yazarın o konudaki yeteneğini takdir ediyorum.

Bu defa karakter kadiri mutlak olarak sunulmamış ve yazar, diyarın başka yerlerinde başka şelerin de yaşanmakta olduğunu gösterme becerisinin suyunu çıkartıp bazı elzem noktaları başka başka karakterlere, mevzulara vs. çözdürtmüş ya da sorunları oralardan türetmiş. Takdir ettim. Carl'ın kabarmakta olan öfkesinin bir noktada elinde patlayacağının sinyallerini de görür gibi olduk. Bakalım devamında ne olacak diyorum.

Buraya kadar gelen zaten devamını da okur. Okuyunuz.

reviewed The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)

Review of "The Butcher's Masquerade" on 'Goodreads'

This was honestly one of the best books since the first in the series! It's the first one where I feel like we are really invited to question Carl and take a step back from him and his relationship to those around him. Donut also grows a ton throughout this book, though in very subtle ways. By the end we really have a great message about trauma, the methods we use to handle it, and when to accept unhealthy coping strategies for what they are... necessary at times.

Fantastic book!

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