Congratulations, you barely noticed a book sale. A single book, one price, and you call that a scoop. The achievement is "Snail-Paced Crawler Finally Noticed a Book Sale for 12.50," and you earned it by reading a deal alert from 9to5Toys. Dungeon Crawler Carl is $12.50 on Amazon right now. That is the news. A price drop on a paperback that has been out for years.
You know what else is out? Book Six, which our own Book Six Review: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride Barely Worth Your Time described as barely worth your time. If you waited this long to buy the first book for twelve fifty, you probably also waited to read the sixth one until a review told you it was mediocre. We see the pattern. You crawl, we report, and the price drops again.
Let us talk about what this sale actually means for you, the reader who still has not finished the first floor. The book is $12.50. That is less than a fast-food meal and more than a cup of coffee you will forget. If you buy it, you will own a story about a man and his ex-girlfriend's cat surviving a collapsing world. That cat, Princess Donut, is a character you have heard about from the audiobook narrator Jeff Hays, who, as our related piece Audiobook Narrator Explains Why Princess Donut Is More Than a Joke explains, is not a joke. She is a talking cat with a tiara and a kill count. The sale does not include the audiobook. You will have to read the words yourself.
And if you are holding out for the show, you should know that Jeff Hays is already cast to voice Princess Donut in the adaptation, as reported in Jeff Hays to Voice Princess Donut in Show After Fan Demand. That means the voice in your head while reading this $12.50 book will eventually be the same voice on screen. You can practice hearing it now for the price of a sandwich.
Our take is simple. If you have not read the first book by now, a two-dollar discount is not going to fix your procrastination. But if you finally want to see what the noise is about, twelve fifty is a fair price for a doorstop that will make you laugh and then make you sad about a cat. Buy it or do not. The dungeon will still be there tomorrow, and the price will probably go back up.