Dungeon Crawler Carl

Carl, a Coast Guard veteran, is having a rotten day. His girlfriend has left him with her prize-winning show cat, and then aliens destroy every man-made structure on Earth. The survivors are herded into a vast, trap-filled fantasy dungeon that works like a video game, where every level cleared is broadcast as a reality show to countless viewers across the galaxy. Carl's only ally is that cat, Princess Donut, who turns out to have strong opinions about her new fame.

Expect exploding goblins, magical potions and deadly, drug-dealing llamas, all delivered with a sharp sense of the absurd and a running grudge against the sadistic entertainment machine running the show. The first book in Matt Dinniman's series, it is for anyone who likes their apocalypse loud, funny and stranger than it has any right to be.