#6 in Fantasy
This Inevitable Ruin
- 880
- Pages
- about 16 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list, peaked at #9
- Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
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Our view
The seventh Dungeon Crawler Carl book turns to open war between nine armies, and it is a long and crowded entry. The series’ sharp, irreverent humour is intact, and committed readers mostly stay on board. Some of them find the cast and the politics hard to keep straight and feel the momentum flag, and some call these 880 pages bloated beside the tighter early volumes. A recap of the previous book before starting helps.
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About the book
They call it Faction Wars. The ninth floor. Nine armies, each led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. Each team has one objective: to capture and hold the castle at the very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, and, of course, betrayal... It all makes for great fun and even greater television. After all, none of these powerful aliens really die when they’re playing war. Except this time. This time, winner takes all. Those who fall, stay in the ground. As the AI continues its rapid decline, Carl and company take advantage of the chaos. For the first time ever, the crawlers are fighting back. They are now one of the nine teams. And this season, there’s a tenth army on the playing field. The NPCs, who are normally used as nothing but cannon fodder, have become fully self-aware and formed a team of their own. For Donut and Katia, the stakes are even higher. Only one of them will be allowed to leave this level. If they all want to survive, they’re going to need a little help from a veteran or two. This is it. This is what they’ve been fighting toward. This is war. This inevitable ruin.
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 Masquerade
9.09.0 / 10 - The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
8.98.9 / 10 - This Inevitable RuinThis book
9.09.0 / 10 - A Parade of Horribles
8.78.7 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 9.2 across 1,240 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 89% of the weight and the score stays at 9.0 — the Fantasy average of 8.0 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 9.2 | 1.2K | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is This Inevitable Ruin?
It has 880 pages — longer than 89% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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