The Butcher's Masquerade: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 5

Love all the twists and turns that are included throughout the series!Such an amazing read

So invested at this point these books are amazing! Such a fun and easy read with so many characters that you will fall in love with!

I continue to be obsessed with Carl and Donuts journey and can’t wait for the next book, especially after that ending.

I'm loving the characters and story more each book and cannot wait to see what happens next. There are some mistakes here and there but they are just bumps in the road of a good story. Cheers!

This is the longer book thus far, and it did feel like it despite the fact that it was non-stop action and enjoyable throughout.Ending was great and I hate it, thanks Matt.

It is likely if you are reading this review of book five you already know the premise. If you are in doubt over continuing the series (I don't know why you would want to stop but your ideas and interest's are your own) this book flushes out the world building, answers some questions posed in the previous books and sets up the future books in an epic way. I would recommend this to current Donut and Carl fans. Those that have not read any of the books yet I would recommend the series those in the real world that have listened to my advice on this have been impressed with the series. Finally the Audible version of this book is read by the Legendary Jeff Hays and really brings the characters to life.

This was awesome. I love Carl. I love Donut. Pony is adorable and I love how much page time he got. This was fantastic.

This isn’t just LitRPG, this is Matt Dinniman LitRPG. I didn’t think this series could get any better -I wish this could be made into TV, it would be amazing. Just read this series, and do it now - just don’t expect to get much else done for a week.

This book covers the full range of human emotion.It makes you laugh, makes you cry, and makes you ask yourself what is wrong with this guy. While the whole time ruiting the underdog/cat.

I loved this intense continuation of the Dungeon Crawl game show with Carl, Princess Donut, and Mongo as they try to survive and get to the next level with the help of Mordecai. Despite the similarities between the books, each storyline is fresh and engaging. This level had the perfect balance of humor, love, real life issues, cuteness, danger, machinations, supernatural elements, surprises, and morality. This book continues exactly where the last book left off though this one feels darker and more emotional. Carl, Donut, and Mongo are now on level 6 of the Crawl - where the Hunters join the fun to hunt down the crawlers in addition to the continuing danger from the mobs. They are still very popular with the fans, Mordecai continues to assist them, Carl continues to come up with crazy dangerous plans, many of the characters from previous floors are back, Katia has decided to leave the Carl and Donut crazy train party, crawlers will die, and Donut continues to be Donut. I still love the interplay and the connection between Carl and Princess Donut and that Carl’s character is a sweet, snarky, messy, lucky, sarcastic, kind of dumb, angry, and awkward man who regularly screws up which just makes him a very likeable and relatable hero. I especially love his mantra of “you will not break me. I will break you” and his continual sneaky subversive efforts. The story includes what you’d expect from this genre - fighting, dangerous situations, supernatural creatures, evil entities, henchmen, loyal friends, tragic back stories, mystical coincidences, snark, plot twists, death, and laughs. There was once again some light ethical, moral, and philosophical undercurrents which added to the depth of the story but did not detract from it. I will definitely keep reading the series to see what the next levels are like and what happens with Carl and Princess Donut and to see what Carl’s continued plans are to mess up the game especially after the way this one ended.

Excelente serie

Gran continuación leí todos los libros de la saga uno tras otro y ya espero el próximo con ansias y saber cuantos libros faltan para el desenlace

This author surprises me with every book. Crisp story telling, clear scenes, no nonsensical descriptions which are hard to follow,. Overall really good writing and great storytelling.