Inspiring performance, fabulous books
DCC is an excellent entry in the gamelit genre, with interesting, human characters with depth and growth displayed. The mechanics are a smooth mix of stats and plausible deniability - a reader of fantasy and sci-fi can easily let the story do its job without letting details bog them down.
Where most newbies to litRPG might get bored with stats, DCC makes them funny and engaging. The downside to that is it can grate on the nerves of those veterans who are invested in stat-heavy series.
That damned AI is just so flippant.
A casual reader can be misled into thinking this is a light read based on the sense of humor in the series, and then be balls-deep in serious political and social commentary before they even realize it. A gentle-hearted fantasy reader like me will make it all the way to book 4 before realizing that it belongs firmly in the horror category as well as fantasy/gamelit/litRPG. kudos to Matt Dinniman for giving me this series to be obsessed with and all praise to the soundbooth theater team for giving me new perspectives on it as I listen to it over and over and over again (I definitely need help. But they won't let me listen to dcc in the psych ward.)
I'm off to listen to book 2 on audible again as I wait for it to be translated to audio immersion tunnel and for the release of book 7.
"Down, down, down, the drain - where do they go?! Why are they always screaming??"