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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9845544" data-attributes="member: 8461">I just finished The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, which is book three of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.I enjoyed this one, but felt like the bloom was beginning to come off of the rose somewhat. The author, Matt Dinniman, seemed to get a little too caught up in explaining the incredibly-complicated layout of this particular dungeon floor. I know that this was because the setup needed to be established in order for Carl and company to then confound what was happening and turn things in their favor, but it really felt like it was being forced in this book. Or perhaps not so much "forced" as "egregious" in terms of how much setup there was. You know those videos of the long sequences of dominos, where they all knock each other over in long trails that make various shapes and designs? Now imagine watching someone set one of those up—one domino at a time—before you get to see the first domino be knocked over. That's what it was like.Also, since my local library was taking too long with the copy I had on order there, I picked up the ebook version instead. I'm a tad miffed at having done so, because apparently the bits of the Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret novella—which takes place concurrent to the main story—isn't part of that, being specific to the physical copies published by Penguin Random House's Ace imprint. At least I didn't cancel the copy on order through my local library, though now I'll be picking it up just to read that part of the novella.</blockquote>

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