Matt Dinniman’s first couple Dungeon Crawler Carl books were fun. The first three were absolutely excellent and I thoroughly enjoyed them. Book four started introducing some heavier elements and some character backstory that added some more depth to the characters but unfortunately started dragging the books down. Book five was good and fun in parts but too much of a drag in other parts and a lot less fun to listen to. Book six, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride is just a drag and not fun at all.
This one has been a Did Not Finish for me. I had to keep taking breaks from this one as it was just too depressing and disturbing and no fun at all. The action scenes aren’t even any fun and the game concept of this level makes no sense to me so there is nothing interesting to follow. I noticed that my breaks from this audio book kept getting longer as I would find fun and entertaining books to listen to and help recover from this book in each break. Finally I realized I didn’t want to continue with this torture session anymore.
The performances of the narrators is also getting really old and annoying. I don’t know which narrators do which characters but the characters that yell and scream all the time and the jarring transitions from one character’s thoughts and words going from all sad and melancholy to another character screaming absurdities at the next second makes this book unpleasant at best to listen to.
The situation in the story universe is getting more dire and it should be compelling to see what is going to happen and how our protagonists are going to triumph. Only the story and writing along with the narration is so melancholy and depressing that you just don’t want to continue anymore.