Matt Dinniman’s The Eye of the Bedlam Bride is available on Audible as a 26 hrs 46 mins unabridged audiobook, narrated by Jeff Hays and Patrick Warburton and Travis Baldree and Annie Ellicott.
Publisher’s Summary
A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a talk show host, an heiress, and the man they shattered along the way. A rapidly deteriorating AI system. An inconvenient tiara upon the head of a friend.
It is bedlam on the eighth floor.
;As management reels from the unexpected conclusion of the seventh level, the surviving crawlers stumble onto the eighth and find themselves scattered. It’s a map based on Earth’s final days before the collapse, where ethereal, intangible ghosts of humanity go about their lives, oblivious of the impending doom. Living amongst these ghosts are monsters based in Earth lore. “Legendary” creatures tied to the geographical location they inhabit.
Each team of crawlers is given a task: find and capture six of these beasts. The captured monsters will be turned into cards. Cards that can be summoned into battle again and again. The stronger, the deadlier, the better.
At the end of the floor, the bad guys will also have decks, and they will have some of the most powerful cards available. So it’s crucial to assemble the toughest squad possible.
But like always, there is a catch. There’s always a catch.
As Carl and Donut know all too well, just because someone is captured, it doesn’t mean they have been tamed.
Her name is Shi Maria. She’s easily the most powerful monster in their area. If they want to survive, they must capture her. But she is no ordinary beast. She’s intelligent. She was once married to a god, a god who is now missing. Her special attack is known to drive one insane. They call her the Bedlam Bride.
“Beware, beware. Beware the eye of the Bedlam Bride.”
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Jeff Hays and Patrick Warburton and Travis Baldree and Annie Ellicott
- Length: 26 hrs 46 mins
- Publisher: Audible Studios
- Release year: 2023
- Audible category: Arts & Entertainment / Music / Science Fiction & Fantasy
Listener Ratings
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride holds an average listener rating of 4.9/5 from 23813 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 5.0/5
- Story: 4.9/5
- 5-star ratings: 93% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
5/5 stars — “Things are getting harder in the Crawl”
I loved this continuation of the Dungeon Crawl game show with Carl, Princess Donut, and Mongo as they try to survive and get to the next level. Despite the similarities between the books, each storyline has been fresh and engaging and the characters grow and change with their experiences. This level had a great balance of humor, love, real life issues, cuteness, danger, machinations, supernatural elements, surprises, death, hard choices, and morality. This book continues exactly where the last book left off. Carl, Donut, and Mongo are now on level 8 of the Crawl after level 7 was broken by Prepotente before it was played. In this level, the crawlers are once again separated into zones and have to fight with battle card decks. Donut and Carl continue to be popular with the fans and Mordecai continues to assist them. Carl continues to come up with crazy dangerous plans and crawlers from previous floors are back. We get more of the NPC and crawler backstories and a better understanding of the history of the dungeon. Crawlers continue to die including some who are major characters. And of course, Donut continues to be Donut. I still love the interplay and the connection between Carl and Princess Donut and that Carl’s character is a sweet, snarky, messy, lucky, sarcastic, kind of dumb, angry, and awkward man who regularly screws up which just makes him a very likeable and relatable hero. I especially love his mantra of “you will not break me. I will break you” and his continual sneaky subversive efforts. The story includes what you’d expect from this genre – fighting, dangerous situations, supernatural creatures, evil entities, henchmen, loyal friends, tragic back stories, mystical coincidences, snark, plot twists, death, and laughs. There was once again some light ethical, moral, and philosophical undercurrents which added to the depth of the story. I will definitely keep reading the series to see what the next levels are like and what happens with Carl and Princess Donut and to see what Carl’s continued plans are to mess up the game.Jeff Hays did a phenomenal job narrating the story and characters into life with enough change of inflection, tone and cadence to voice multiple characters quite convincingly. This was one of the best narrations I have ever heard. Reading the story was great but listening to it raised the enjoyment to a whole other level.
— Tammy Moldovan, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Very realistic voice acting!”
An amazing story overall, I can’t wait for the next book! So much creativity. The character development is so well done.— michael finochio, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Oh my demons? “
Let’s just say it. Once again I am slayed by my riotous laughter. The magic the gathering jokes. The way they ended it was a shocking conclusion. Plus what a cliffhanger! I’m definitely going to look for a princess posse shirt.— Cory Lenard, Audible listener
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