{"id":2158,"date":"2026-03-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2026-02-28T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:18:25","slug":"book-review-operation-bounce-house-by-matt-dinniman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/2026\/03\/02\/book-review-operation-bounce-house-by-matt-dinniman\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/campbell.wyldcatalog.org\/Record\/a2621690?searchId=48116551&amp;recordIndex=1&amp;page=1&amp;referred=resultIndex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Operation-Bounce-House-679x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2174\" style=\"width:225px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Operation-Bounce-House-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Operation-Bounce-House-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Operation-Bounce-House-768x1159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Operation-Bounce-House.jpg 994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judge this book by its cover. Go ahead. It says it all. But if you want a little more\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As many of us who jumped on the <a href=\"https:\/\/campbell.wyldcatalog.org\/GroupedWork\/843e0235-39f6-aa77-62f3-f99102c9c970-eng\/Home?searchId=48116679&amp;recordIndex=1&amp;page=1&amp;searchSource=local&amp;referred=resultIndex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Dungeon Crawler Carl<\/em> <\/a>(DCC) train wait in agony for more books to come out, the author, Matt Dinniman, honored us with a new standalone title, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/campbell.wyldcatalog.org\/Record\/a2621690?searchId=48116551&amp;recordIndex=1&amp;page=1&amp;referred=resultIndex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Operation Bounce House<\/a><\/em>. Because I have yet to locate another author that writes with the same dark, witty, apocalyptic but morally green humor as Dinniman, I scooped this one right on up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think farm boy meets advanced technological society, and evil robot war video games meets real genocide in a rustic-but-futuristic, colonizing-other-planets type world. Difficult topics such as human prejudice, AI concerns, online trolls, adult content influencers, government &amp; corporate dishonesty, greed, and more, will all get slammed in your face like a fresh banana cream pie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is fast-paced, chaotic, disastrous, and deeper than you can imagine. Recommended for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Please note that even if you did not read DCC for any reason, you can sample it in this one. It will tell you whether you would like his other books or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge this book by its cover. Go ahead. It says it all. But if you want a little more\u2026 As many of us who jumped on the Dungeon Crawler Carl (DCC) train wait in agony for more books to come out, the author, Matt Dinniman, honored us with a new standalone title, Operation Bounce House. Because I have yet to locate another author that writes with the same dark, witty, apocalyptic but morally green humor as Dinniman, I scooped this one right on up. Think farm boy meets advanced technological society, and evil robot war video games meets real genocide in a rustic-but-futuristic, colonizing-other-planets type world. Difficult topics such as human prejudice, AI concerns, online trolls, adult content influencers, government &amp; corporate dishonesty, greed, and more, will all get slammed in your face like a fresh banana cream pie. It is fast-paced, chaotic, disastrous, and deeper than you can imagine. Recommended for sure. *Please note that even if you did not read DCC for any reason, you can sample it in this one. It will tell you whether you would like his other books or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1000,27,410],"tags":[55,414,295,955,40,512,998],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","category-science-fiction-fantasy","category-staff-picks","tag-campbell-county-public-library","tag-ccpl","tag-ccpls","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-matt-dinniman","tag-operation-bounce-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}