This Inevitable Ruin, by Matt Dinniman

Book 37 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year – carrying on through the rest of the year! 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. This book blog post comes soon after the previous one because I had already read the next Dungeon Crawler Carl book but opted to read something else so that my blog isn’t just 100% Dungeon Crawler Carl! This post is about the 7th book in the series, This Inevitable Ruin (2025), which keeps up the insane compelling momentum of the series. A quick refresher: Earth has been conquered and most of the population slain by alien invaders. Millions of people were then coerced into entering an 18 level dungeon game run by a near omnipotent AI for the entertainment of the galaxy and the profit of corporate overlords. This dungeon operates much like a videogame: all the players have stats and skills that can be leveled up through use and through magical items and reward…