The Problem With Dungeon Crawler Carl

There is a lot of hype around Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman, and I’ve always wondered why. I knew from the summary that it was LitRPG, and those are hardly ever “mainstream.” I’ll be honest and say that I was never really won over by the hype or the concept of the books themselves, despite having a soft spot for LitRPG novels. I just couldn’t really get myself that excited about a man and his cat going dungeon crawling. Add in that there was some odd rumblings online about there being some sort of romance between the MC and the cat. Those are false, thankfully, but honestly at this point I’d kind of be happy if those rumors had been true. Not that I’m professing any sort of interest in man on cat kinkiness, but it would at least be something interesting. I’m now in the third book, and I’ve honestly never been so bored. Don’t get me wrong, there are some parts that are interesting and action packed (just enough to have gotten me to the third book). But, it’s just so boring.…