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Jun 16, 2025 02:49PM
Mmmmm.... I'm still keeping this in mind! I'd love to jump in on Mother of Learning... if I get caught up...
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I'm picky about time travel stories and this one is working for me. Probably because it's not traditional time travel. I'm going to try to write a review about it tomorrow.
Looking forward to that! I'm pretty behind in reviews... gotta get back on that bandwagon.
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Timelord Iain wrote: "sentient otterman from a world with dinosaurs..."Ah, and this is why I love SFF--the sentences you never thought you'd be reading... or writing...
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Mentioning Bone Daddy in Dead Tired or other oddities...
I finished DCC 7 with my husband. The look on his face at that big bombshell ending (view spoiler) was so priceless lol So was his lament afterwards of "what do we listen to now without any more new Carl and Donut?" To which I followed up with "We restart from book 1 of course!" I don't think he knows I was serious :DI started him on Beware of Chicken for a change of pace.
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Discount Dan
Cul-de-sac Carnage
The closest other things we've found to Dungeon Crawler Carl are Dead Tired 1 (mostly because Jeff Hays narrates, otherwise pretty cozy Ravensdagger silliness)... and Full Murderhobo:
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I will be curious to see how he likes Beware of Chicken. I enjoyed the first.
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I followed the Dead Tired threads without opening spoilers and saw you all really enjoyed them. I have them marked in my head for the future.I'll report back on BOC. We listen during car rides on weekends so it will be a bit.
Neither of those really have the serious layer that DCC does... just the shenanigans layers...I feel like He Who Fights with Monsters has been filling that void better for me... and I have some more Wandering Inn to get to...
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I've also see Mother of Learning: ARC 1 listed on threads talking about "what to listen to while waiting for the next DCC"--as well as Cradle, Dresden, Alex Verus...Really hoping I can squeeze Mother of Learning in this month...
There isn't really anything like DCC out there. Just other good books to enjoy :)
Narilka wrote: "There isn't really anything like DCC out there. Just other good books to enjoy :)"True words!
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I have been reading the Creature Farming series and really enjoying it. It's really laid back and cozy, kind of like a farming simulation game. The first book in the series is Isekai Farming. I don't know if it's a finished series or not but there are currently 3 books.
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I also have a laundry list of past purchases and wishlisted ones to try...
Gonna make a list:
The Bee-ginning: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG -- new series from author of Arrival
Monster Menu: A Slice-of-Life LitRPG
Death Loot & Vampires / First Line of Defence -- author of Oh, Great! I Discovered How to Cultivate a Farmer in 52 Easy Steps
Shrubley, the Monster Adventurer: A LitRPG Adventure
The Mayor of Noobtown -- bought way too many of these on sale... tried the first few hours of book 1 once, need to give it another go...
Domestication -- I own a bunch of these, and now the first half of the series is leaving Audible+ mid-July...
All the Skills -- author of She of Many Dragons
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Cleaver's Edge
Master of Puppets
Fluff / Stray Cat Strut 2 / The Agartha Loop: Book 1 / Crystal Genocide / Lever Action / Sporemageddon Vol. 2 / Cinnamon Bun Volume 6: A Wholesome LitRPG -- many Ravensdagger series... a few don't have audio yet, I might have missed some, started 3...
Momo the Ripper: A Fantasy LitRPG Adventure
Grilled Armageddon
Dragon Seed
For the Loot: A LitRPG Fantasy
Jake's Magical Market
Blackmist
A Small Town in Southern Illvaria
Need to finish up:
The Path of Ascension 6+
Unaffiliated Healer+
Overdue+
Upping the Ante+
He Who Fights with Monsters 9+
Noah the Red+
Demon World Boba Shop: Vol. 3
The Engineer+
Desert Born+
Some others I didn't mention since they're unreleased...
That's a lot of LitRPGs.In other news... Ilona Andrews is planning a summer release of the serial they've been posting for a few months. I'm keeping an eye on their blog for a release date.
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Jumped into Battle Mage Farmer and enjoying it a lot...
MC is overpowered, but the world has a Breath of Fire 5 system, where most actions fill a meter that will trigger the apocalypse, so he has restrictions (which he only partially understands)... System seems semi-broken, and this is Isekai, so the MC is still trying to figure the world out, despite already spending 10+ years conscripted into a Mage War...
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The mental modeling skill he's gained reminds me of AI assistants in Cradle and many LitRPGs...
Gonna read the first 3 then jump to something else...
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Michael Kramer at 3.5x speed is giving it some gravitas without being too slow... (I find him super slow at slower speeds... in the past I'd listen to him faster than other narrators, when I wasn't already listening at speed caps...
I'm halfway through book 3 already... each book is about 12hrs... already wondering what other series of his I want to read, after I finish this 9 book series... he has several others, ongoing and finished, but some are connected...
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Gonna finally read A Prince Out of Time, which is followed by Forgotten Sanctum & Whitefall...
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Starts near the end of the trilogy, I think, then jumps back to explain everything that happened...
Then the prince sabotages his coronation because he hates his dad/parents and the things they've done... but wishes to live in some ceremonial sacrifice linked to the coronation... then events play out and he dies and he rewinds 10 years... starts trying to change things, then it keeps jumping back and forth, as he dies unexpectedly young, or has a vision of the future that turns out to be real, dies, goes back to young, sometimes dies almost immediately... basically creates lots of questions of causality and why some timelines lead to near instant death and some play out longer... and I'm only 14 chapters and 5hrs into book 1...
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I already downloaded MOL 2, I'm excited to get back to it :D I have 3 hours left on the Singularity Trap so will probably be back at it this weekend.
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I love reading all your random reviews, Iain--I always appreciate your willingness to vanguard test these for us so we know what's worth getting on sales... Battle Mage Farmer I got on a humble bundle a while back...I'm getting close to getting caught up for the month--really hoping I can squeeze MOL#1 in before the end!
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book 5 opened with John leaving the world and going to another world (similar to the premise of later Mage Errant books), and learned about all the extra-planar threats floating around, and how much his OPness was being supressed by the limits of the magic saturation on the main world of the series... went Super Saiyan for awhile, then returned home and had to lock away his powers "forever" to avoid destroying the world... and then proceeded to tell the other 2/3 of the book with his powers limited... which is kinda impressive, considering how over the top the first 33% was...
Ended with a pretty cool monster fight where the puppy dog Bull swole up to 50 feet and fought a Dragon Queen... (legendary beasts in this world can control their size, past a certain cultivation-like threshold of mana)... there's also the lightning rooster and some other peripheral animals...
This series is some type of LitRPG/Cultivation hybrid where alot of the terms usually associated with cultivation chi are done with ambient mana saturation instead...
And it vibes with so many other aspects of my other favorite LitRPG/Cultivation/cozy stories...
I started the first Battle Mage Farmer book this morning. It's good so far and I'm really enjoying the character building. I'm only on Chapter 3, so not too far into it.
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The series is still kinda inundated with the problems I had before... so much is packed into so few pages that relationships feel like they develop overly fast and then morph and evolve similarly fast...
Also, alot of plotlines carry across multiple books, and alot of endings include zingers for future books that aren't immediately followed up in, which creates a bit of a disconnect in the story...
At least there's a pretty clearly defined overarching narrative... my only concern now is whether the series is finished or not... it sounds like the overarching narrative resolves in the penultimate book, so I can't tell if the final book is an epilogue or the beginning of a second arc that hasn't been followed through on in a few years now... find out soon, I guess... I've read 8 of 11 novellas now...
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In this way, the feelings of similarity between this series and Dark Lord Davi grow stronger...
BTW, this book is chaptered into Parts and subchapters:
Prologue
Ignis 1-5
Everwood 1-22
Crossroads 1-12
Enclave 1-44
Enclave is over half the book, once the MC settled on a longterm plan...
Went on Amazon to see the chapters for books 2-3...
Book 2 has a prologue set during Enclave, then 50 chapters of Sanctum for the whole book (altho the final chapter is labeled XLX, which is the worst roman numeral I've ever seen get past edits, lol)... and a few Interludes...
Book 3 opens with an Interlude, then has 12 Pyrrhic chapters (which sounds like where Book 1's prologue happens), then 45 Whitefall chapters with a few more interludes from Lillian (the woman the MC loved and lost in the initial timeline that triggered his actions in Ignis 1-5 that led to the time loop, and who he's been having weird dreams about... so this might be a spoiler to know...
I started Mother of Learning: ARC 2 this morning. I didn't get far, only through Ch 1 (view spoiler)
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Be a week late for everything, and/or only start stuff that somebody commented on and said they started...
It was great being all caught up in June, but a bit lonely reading everything a week early or on time, before anyone else showed up... I want to have a few more discussions this month, and when I read early and others read late, it's been 2 weeks and 40 books since i read the book and it's hard to do more than just read the comments :(
Means I'll be reading alot of random stuff the next week or 2, while I let stuff pile up...
Last night I read Damaged -- Library System Reset #2 -- wasn't expecting the MC's REAL backstory to be what it was, but it explains her budding OPness... altho there's so much other dangerous stuff going on, that she hasn't had too many chances to be OP yet... and probably won't until the end of the series, given how the odds are stacked against her... shame this series is so nascent, and I pretty much have to wait weeks/months for future releases... #3 comes out in August and I think #4 comes out in October, and no news on #5 audio yet... (this is actually better than I thought before I went and doublechecked, but reminds me of how great it was when I started reading Daily Grind, and now it's pretty close to caught up with Royal Road and long wait for more content)...
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This is about a nonbinary, autistic food blogger that stumbled into an alien invasion that nobody else is noticing... posting footage of oddities seems to be saving his failing blog... his readers can't decide if it's a hoax or not... and some are more invested in glimpses of Denver's personal life...
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