In this set of novels, we really start seeing more and more of the external impact, and some of the bigger picture. There are still so many questions but the story is continuing to grow bigger as we learn more. So many more lawsuits and injunctions about decisions and actions in the game that play but they are mostly just irritating the ever more off the rails AI. Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride – floor 7&8 First a maze and then a […]

I am having a bit of a hard time remembering when some of the “outside of dungeon” events occurred in relation to each book so going to do this one as more general review with some details about each book. Dinniman keeps adding more details to the world building beyond the dungeon and I might like that broader picture even more than the dungeon. We get to see things like CrawlerCon (so fun) but also see hints of the larger politics and how the crawl […]

After seeing 2 Cannonballers more or less start the year with these, I was very curious. Add a narfna endorsement in the comments, and, of course, I was going to check it out. And then immediately burned through all the existing novels – I hear the audiobooks are incredible so might do a reread soon that way but I am not sure I would have had the patience for a 26+ hour audio book as a first read through (for some of the later books). […]