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The Butcher's Masquerade

Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 5

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The Butcher's Masquerade

By: Matt Dinniman
Narrated by: Jeff Hays
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Attention. Attention. The gates are down. The hunters are loose.

Run, run, run.

A lush jungle teeming with danger. Savage dinosaurs seeking blood. A fallen princess intent on vengeance. A mysterious, end-of-floor celebration for the top crawlers, dubbed “The Butcher’s Masquerade”.

The sixth floor. The Hunting Grounds.

As the remaining crawlers battle for their lives, a new, terrible threat looms. Outside, tourists are finally allowed to enter the game, and they are here and ready to hunt. Among them is Vrah, a famed and veteran hunter, intent on collecting the biggest trophy of her career.

But their prey is far from harmless, and this season they are fighting back.

Dungeon Crawler Carl and Princess Donut return in book five of the acclaimed LitRPG series.

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About the Creator

Matt Dinniman is a writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington. He is the author of the bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series along with several other books about the end of the world. He doesn't really hate Cocker Spaniels, and he plays bass in two bands.

About the Creator- Jeff Hays

About the Performer

Jeff Hays is a voice actor with tremendous range, a producer and narrator of over 200 audiobooks—including the beloved Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman—a musician and composer, and founding CEO of Soundbooth Theater. His creativity coupled with unrelenting ambition led him to launch Soundbooth Theater at the crossroad of these mediums.

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Keep it going!

I don’t want to post any spoilers so I’ll be brief: I loved this book, I’ve already listened to it 3 times. I can’t wait for the next one. Definitely worth your hard earned credit!

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As with the previous books, I loved it. Princess Donut is as funny as ever and Samantha and Pony add greatly to the laughs. If anything, this novel builds upon the strengths of the previous adventures while working on the few weaknesses.

Matt Dinniman keeps up the inventive and interesting challenges, but he has scaled this one back enough that it remains epic while not requiring several rereads to be understood. Additionally, while many of the more standard fights are related simply as afterthoughts, the larger battles felt more like they were solved using the stats, skills, and levels of the characters rather than relying on a MacGuffin or the solving of a mystery to save the day. Those things still happen, as they should, as Carl's pre-game is his most important asset, but as a fan of progression novels and litrpgs, I want those levels and skills to be meaningful - and they did.

Finally, Jeff Hays knocks this out of the park again. I honestly think that this series will long be the shiniest (or at least among the shiniest) feathers in his cap, and I think he knows it too. I know that people give all 5 stars on Audible all the time because the algorithm is setup for users and not true critics but were we precious with that fifth star in order to reserve it only for those few performances deemed to be worthy of awards, he would be earning them for this series. Bravo.

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Another fantastic book in a fantastic series!

Absolutely loved it! Both Matt and Jeff nailed it once again! 10/10 would recommend this series to anyone I meet.

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Oh gods

I couldn’t make it through the whole this without balling my eye out. Good job! It was perfect in every way and I will be in shock for soooo long.

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I used to find this series highly entertaining...

I still do, but I used to, too. You've gone this far, don't stop now!

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NEW ACHIEVEMENT

This book was awesome Matt is crazy but we love it cant wait to see when the doomsday bomb is used

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nonstop from beginning to end

I don't normally leave reviews, but this is worthy of one. The plot is great and won't let you put it down. Jeff Hayes and Soundboothe rock it as usual

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wonderwall

Book 5 usually sucks in most series, but this 5th entry in the DCC series is a rare gem of non-suck.

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Absolutely Fantastic book and performance

Man oh man, this series is something to behold. A wonderful roller coaster ride of emotions. Sometimes I was laughing until my chest hurts, other times I wanted to cry, and every now and then I was just stunned into silence. Another excellent part of the series with an unbelievably fantastic performance by Jeff Hayes. If you enjoyed the previous books, you’ll love this one.

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Uma obra de mestre

A história está ficando cada vez melhor, e ganha vida, cores e sabor na voz do Jeff Hays!

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