Review: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

When I first noticed this series had blown up to the point of getting almost all the books reissued in humongous hardcovers, I thought ACE had gotten all seven that has been self published up to 2024 or so. Nope. Turns out this is as far as they’ve gotten, but the seventh book will be reissued by ACE this fall, and promises to be even bigger and bloodier than any of its predecessors. And given that this book is an 800 page monster of spinning story wheels and more repetitive plot than you can blame on the in universe majorly malfunctioning AI, that’s saying something. As always, I’m still here for Princess Donut (who now presents a much needed recap of the previous book, emphasizing the most important events and glossing over some others, but those she glossed over tend to be the ones I remember most anyway.) That, plus Carl’s backstory finally getting some revelations (and Dinniman is quick to acknowledge that while Carl was a PNW boy all along, he and Dinniman are definitely NOT the same person) is why this book gets a 2.5 rounded up to 3.

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