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The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

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Carl, Princess Donut, and Mongo have fifteen days to capture four castles or die trying—welcome to the fifth floor of the deadliest game show in the galaxy.

The Wall Street Journal calls the series "often laugh-out-loud funny," and Brandon Sanderson simply says it's "legit awesome."

The fifth floor raises the stakes with an entire warzone to conquer: a floating fortress of warrior gnomes, a shifting sand castle, a derelict submarine, and a crypt that's very much haunted.

Carl's crew has fifteen days to take all four, and every ally they pick up along the way comes with a catch—if they can even be trusted at all.

Dinniman keeps escalating the scale without losing the series' irreverent, blood-soaked humor, and Donut is as imperious and hilarious as ever.

It's the biggest, most ambitious floor yet, and proof the series has no intention of slowing down.

Carl, Princess Donut, and Mongo have fifteen days to capture four castles or die trying—welcome to the fifth floor of the deadliest game show in the galaxy.

The Wall Street Journal calls the series "often laugh-out-loud funny," and Brandon Sanderson simply says it's "legit awesome."

The fifth floor raises the stakes with an entire warzone to conquer: a floating fortress of warrior gnomes, a shifting sand castle, a derelict submarine, and a crypt that's very much haunted.

Carl's crew has fifteen days to take all four, and every ally they pick up along the way comes with a catch—if they can even be trusted at all.

Dinniman keeps escalating the scale without losing the series' irreverent, blood-soaked humor, and Donut is as imperious and hilarious as ever.

It's the biggest, most ambitious floor yet, and proof the series has no intention of slowing down.

  • Publisher: Ace

    Title: The Gate of the Feral Gods

    Author: Matt Dinniman

    On Sale Date: March 11, 2025

    ISBN 13: 9780593955970

    ISBN 10: 0593955978

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $30.00

    BISAC: Fiction / Science Fiction / Fantasy

    Page Count: 608

    Dimensions: 6 x 9 in

  • Matt Dinniman is a writer, artist, and musician from Gig Harbor, Washington, and the author of the bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which has become a phenomenon among fantasy and LitRPG readers for its blend of brutal action and irreverent humor.

  • Readers are calling it epic, hilarious, and relentless.

    • Readers describe The Gate of the Feral Gods as the most ambitious floor design in the series so far.

    • Fans say the fifteen-day countdown makes this the most tense entry yet.

    • Longtime crawlers highlight Mongo's growing role as a fan-favorite addition.

    • Reviewers point to the four-castle structure as some of Dinniman's sharpest pacing.

This book is for you if

  • You want dungeon-crawl action on an ever-bigger, ever-weirder scale.

  • You've been following Carl and Donut's floor-by-floor climb and can't stop now.

  • You like your fantasy quests to come with a ticking clock.

  • You enjoy stories where you're never quite sure which allies are actually on your side.

  • You want a series that keeps topping itself book after book.

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