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A Parade of Horribles

Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 8

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A Parade of Horribles

Written 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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very nice book very good narration loving so far. encourage everyone to read this give it a try

excellent book

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5 stars - the book introduced breadcrumbs throughout the book, even in the almost procedural first half and then brought it all together for Carl to carry out an audacious plan of epic proportions.

It has set up a great next book while enough happened in this book to say “wow!”.

I love how the crawl has taken on epic proportions beyond the dungeon and how Carl and team have basically not played within the rules, but rather bended the dungeons own rules to pull off the seemingly impossible beyond the designs wildest imaginations

Epic proportions beyond the dungeon; Carl and team bend the dungeons own rules to pull off the impossible

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Not as brilliant as book 7 but what an ending! Absolutely loved the insane pay off with so many great character moments and very much setting up for a bombastic final book(s)

What a ride!!!

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This is the greatest combination of story + voice acting ever. Jeff has perfectly executed an amazing story with all its absurd and caricatures captured beautifully. Even if you are not into audiobooks, this one is simply worth it for the superb Chapter 57.

Brilliant!

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Really enjoyed listening to jeff and Matt wrote another hell of an amazing story . The ending was crazy, I have no words . Now I have to wait for book 9 😭

Another amazing addition!!

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