I finished Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman last week. It’s the first book of Dungeon Crawler Carl series.

I mentioned the week before that the litRPG doesn’t have high stakes, since you know nothing is going to happen to your character and it’s just going to get stronger and stronger, but I failed to realise that this happens when you don’t care about any side characters. Which is not to say that something happens (or doesn’t happen) to side characters, but that the side characters are well written that you care about them.

Started The Novice by Trudi Canavan. The second book in The Black Magician trilogy.

The first book was completely focused on one place and one task, this book expands the world, and different characters are doing completely different things so it’s interesting to see how things will develop. I am still in the start though, and while the book feels as quick to read as the first one, it has quite a bit of bullying in it (at least in the start, where I am), and I am not a fan of reading that, so the progress is going pretty slow. Going to stick with it though, cause it feels like the kind of book where our protagonist is going to become super powerful, with somewhat “good” ending.


What about all of you? What have you all been reading or listening to lately?


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  • Aralakh@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Would you happen to be aware of how many more books there are going to be of He Who Fights with Monsters?

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      2 months ago

      I don’t know I’m afraid. There is book 13 coming in October of this year but I haven’t found any indication of how many books are planned in total. Sorry.

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        2 months ago

        All good, I appreciate your reply! Honestly I recall you mentioning the series in the last thread, which is how I learnt about it - thank you! I just know I’m more drawn to series that for sure wrap up 😅

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          2 months ago

          If you are looking for litrpgs that already have an end then I can definitely recommend Buy Mort: The Shopocalypse Saga.

          I enjoyed that a lot and it has already wrapped up so if the concept sounds appealing then may be a good one for you :)

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            2 months ago

            Cool, Buy Mort sounds like a good time - always down for battles against capitalism. Thank you!

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              2 months ago

              I’ll look forward to seeing your post in one of these future threads to see how you find it. I don’t see it mentioned very often but it is great fun!

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            2 months ago

            That’s what has kept me starting it up yet 😅, A Song of Fire & Ice really hurt me lmao. Will probably real the Cradle series before it because of that!

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              Yeah, didn’t realise it has finished. I think I read first 3-4 books on Kindle. Will get the physical copies when I am done with DCC.