Scott's Take: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman

 

Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman is the second book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. In this read, Donut and Carl are now further in the game alongside Mongo (Donut’s pet dinosaur) and have reached their first major town. There are quests now being thrown into the game to make things more complicated. Carl and Donut and others must put a stop to a murder circus full of infected monsters. They also need to stop someone who is dropping dead hookers from the sky. All of that must be done while still trying to survive the alien factions that are running the games. 

 

I read the large print edition from my local library which includes a bonus short story about the meth dealing lamas from the first book.  This second book I think is better than the first because there are less exposition dumps than the first. There is still plenty of action, humor, and monsters. We have nudity, nudity, zombies, Krause (a type of monster), and a lot more.

 

Mongo has grown on me as a character in the last book I just found him annoying but I see why he is an important character now.

 

 I am currently on hold at my local library for the third book in the series, The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook.

 

 

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My reading copy, in paperback large print, came from the Kleberg-Rylie Branch of the Dallas Public Library System.

 

 

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