#7 in Fantasy
The Butcher's Masquerade
- 732
- Pages
- about 13 h
- Reading time
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Our view
The fifth Dungeon Crawler Carl book is where the series turns: the cast widens, the world opens up, and the emotional pitch stays high throughout, which some readers may find too much. The jokes remain, but harsher and bleaker than in the early volumes. At more than seven hundred pages and this deep into the story, it is no place to begin; readers who have followed Carl and Princess Donut this far get their reward.
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About the book
Carl and Princess Donut refuse to be prey in the fifth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series—now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition! Attention. Attention. The gates are down. The hunters are loose. Run, Run, Run. A lush jungle teeming with danger. Savage dinosaurs seeking blood. A fallen princess intent on vengeance. A mysterious, end-of-floor celebration for the top crawlers, dubbed “The Butcher’s Masquerade.” But that’s not all. Just when Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, think they’ve seen it all as they compete to survive in the galaxy’s most popular game show, the latest dungeon level introduces a terrible new threat. The sixth floor. The Hunting Grounds. As the remaining crawlers battle for their lives, outside tourists are finally allowed to enter the game, and they are ready to hunt. Among them is Vrah, a famed and veteran hunter, intent on collecting the biggest trophy of her career. But her prey is far from harmless, and this season they are fighting back. Welcome, crawlers. Welcome to the sixth floor of the dungeon.
Reading order · Dungeon Crawler Carl
Full order & progress →- Dungeon Crawler CarlStart here
8.78.7 / 10 - Carl's Doomsday Scenario
8.78.7 / 10 - The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
8.58.5 / 10 - The Gate of the Feral Gods
8.88.8 / 10 - The Butcher's MasqueradeThis book
9.09.0 / 10 - The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
8.98.9 / 10 - This Inevitable Ruin
9.09.0 / 10 - A Parade of Horribles
8.78.7 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 9.1 across 1,681 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 92% of the weight and the score stays at 9.0 — the Fantasy average of 8.0 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 9.1 | 1.7K | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Butcher's Masquerade?
It has 732 pages — longer than 75% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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