The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, by Matt Dinniman

Book 35 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year – almost done! My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. Dungeon Crawler Carl continues to captivate me. I recently finished the 6th book in the Matt Dinniman series, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (2025). The book continues the tale of Carl and Princess Donut’s descent into the deeper levels of the dungeon, playing in an intergalactic game show for the entertainment of the masses and the profit of the ruling classes. Carl has vowed to end the cruel practice and get revenge for the people of Earth by any means possible, and circumstances have rapidly been evolving to where he might just get that chance. After slaying all the alien hunters on level 6, a quirk of the rules applied by another crawler propels everyone to level 8. Here, in simulation designed to replicate Earth in the weeks before the aliens essentially destroyed it, the crawlers are…