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I've been bopping in & out in between reading other things, but I did just finish book 3 and have downloaded book 4, for those keeping track of my DCC journey! I have a lot of chores/organizing/cleaning to do over the next week so I may make it through this book faster than the last one. We'll see!

They feel so aggressively niche gamer to me, if you are a non-gamer reading them I would love to hear if you find any of that tedious or overwhelming. I'm having a hard time imagining what the experience would be if you're not a big gamer, but they have CLEARLY broken containment in a huge way.

(I also wonder if the audiobooks are part of that magic. A lot of people I see talking about them who aren't gamers are listening to them, and I gotta hand it to the narrator: it's impressive that I am not sick & fucking tired of hearing "New Achievement" already??? lol)

I'm also reading a SECRET ARC I can not talk to you about but omg omg omg omg. And also a NOT SECRET ARC that I want to tell everyone about, which is @alyssacolelit.bsky.social's next thriller IT TAKES A VILLAGE, and if I didn't love her so much I'd hate her for being this fuckin' good, y'all.

Hello! I am so thoroughly not a gamer I think the last non-puzzle game I played regularly was like Kirby's Dreamland on Gameboy, and I tore through those books! At first the videogame world-building stuff was really distracting, but eventually the characters and truly BONKERS plot won me over.

Yeah, the characters are super vivid for sure. I like that in book 3 I'm getting to see more of the other crawlers now, too! but some of the video game stuff was even distracting for me, so I really wondered how folks were dealing with it!