{"id":3911,"date":"2026-07-10T07:18:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:18:55","slug":"books-butchers-masquerade-by-matt-dinniman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=3911","title":{"rendered":"Books: Butcher\u2019s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As usual with Dungeon Crawler Carl there is a lot going on. The writing for this book was typical for the series. The floor this time was a little easier to grasp than some of the others. I laughed out loud more than once, which I guess is the main reason I enjoy the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read one of these books every 2-3 months, which is enough time for me to catch my breath and not burn out on the series, but also just enough time to forget some of the side characters and plots. I have to ask an AI to give me quick summary before I restart, which helps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere online I saw a person (sounding a little exasperated) asking what the attraction is for these books. For me it is nice to turn off your brain, sit back and let the goofy action happen. Just like other series you kind of know what to expect, and it is good to relax and not over-analyze things. If you miss a reference or forget a character it is no big deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll check back in with Carl and Donut after a couple of months! Next I am reading Tokyo Daze by Mark Coughlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual with Dungeon Crawler Carl there is a lot going on. The writing for this book was typical for the series. The floor this time was a little easier to grasp than some of the others. I laughed out loud more than once, which I guess is the main reason I enjoy the series. [&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":"","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-3911","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\/pOpl7-115","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","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=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}