Robin’s Review of Monday ’n’ Mayhem Tales of the Damned Dice #1

Monday ’n’ Mayhem (Tales of the Damned Dice #1)

Others called it justice. He called it performance.

When a weekly drunken brawl births a murder, Mišo Kanis — conman, merchant, and accidental prophet — must turn the chaos into legend or die trying.
Together with his ragged tavern crew — four men bound by lies, loyalty, and ale — he spins a story big enough to hide a corpse, or mountains of them.
But stories this big don’t stay buried. They take on a life of their own — dragging them into a war against made-up enemies, absent gods, and the very truth itself.

Monday ’n’ Mayhem begins the Tales of the Damned Dice series, a satirical grimdark fantasy saga forged from ruthless dice, real emotion, and terrible decisions — where heroes are frauds, prophecies are drunk, and salvation always comes at someone else’s expense.

For fans of Kings of the Wyld, The Blacktongue Thief, The First Law Trilogy, and Good Omens — a brutal, darkly hilarious descent into brotherhood, guilt, and the price of storytelling.

Robin’s Review

Triggers: Violence, alcohol abuse, moral decay, existential dread wrapped in sarcasm

What Did I Just Walk Into?
Imagine if a drunken D&D session turned into an actual apocalypse, then someone decided to write a gospel about it. That’s Monday ’n’ Mayhem. It opens with a tavern brawl, and by chapter three, that brawl has accidentally started a war, spawned a religion, and rewritten history. Mišo Kanis, the conman slash reluctant prophet at the center of this glorious disaster, tries to turn his crimes into myths before someone sobers up enough to realize he’s lying. Spoiler: he doesn’t always succeed.

This isn’t your polished “chosen one” fantasy. It’s grimdark with a hangover, satire with a black eye, and the kind of prose that makes you laugh right before it punches you in the gut.

Here’s What Slapped:
The writing. It’s lush, unhinged, and dangerously quotable. Mr. Alexander Gabriel ZoderoT writes like a man who’s seen too many bad decisions and decided to mythologize them.

Mišo and his crew, four lovable disasters held together by liquor, lies, and misplaced loyalty. They’re the embodiment of “well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.”

The dialogue snaps like a bar fight, bloody, hilarious, and somehow poetic.

The worldbuilding flips every grimdark trope on its head. Heroes are frauds, gods are absent, and truth is just another hangover cure that never quite works.

Physical editions have bonus sketches and D&D-style character sheets, which makes this book a collector’s chaos.

What Could’ve Been Better:
Early pacing drags a touch before the dice really start rolling. The first few chapters wobble between setup and drunken philosophy, but once the chaos kicks in, it flies. You’ll forgive every stagger once you realize you’ve been hustled into caring deeply about four men who absolutely shouldn’t be in charge of anything sharper than a spoon.

Perfect for Readers Who Love:
Dark humor mixed with emotional gut punches
Flawed heroes who make terrible choices and somehow make them worse
Stories that blur the line between truth, myth, and pure chaos
Clever banter, moral messes, and the dangerous power of storytelling
Worlds where survival depends on lies, loyalty, and a strong drink

Final Verdict:
A brutal hymn to storytelling itself, ugly, hilarious, and weirdly beautiful beneath all the blood and beer. Monday ’n’ Mayhem doesn’t ask for your belief; it just pours you a drink, laughs in your face, and dares you to keep reading.

Reviewed by Robin for Robin’s Review

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