{"id":3880,"date":"2026-02-26T11:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:12:24","slug":"books-the-gate-of-the-feral-gods-by-matt-dinniman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=3880","title":{"rendered":"Books: The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More fun from Dungeon Crawler Carl and Donut. These are not exactly mindless, but they are fun to read without exerting too much brain power &#8211; I hope there aren\u2019t people out there debating the actions of these characters. Sometimes you want to read through something and (hopefully) laugh along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book in particular seems to mark a darker turn for Carl, and we can kind of see where things might be leading. Some of these more serious events are preceded by some heavy-handed writing, but hopefully the author can keep the humor and fun while exploring the dark side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next I am reading Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More fun from Dungeon Crawler Carl and Donut. These are not exactly mindless, but they are fun to read without exerting too much brain power &#8211; I hope there aren\u2019t people out there debating the actions of these characters. Sometimes you want to read through something and (hopefully) laugh along the way. This book in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Books: The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-10A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}