We thought it was a great read that was deceptively intelligent. Also, we think he needs to subject his characters to more emotional trauma (kind of like the mental state of the characters in PATIENT ZERO), and hurt them even more than the horror inflicted on them in MONSTER HUNTER INTERNATIONAL.īuy it, read it, and decide for yourself. Paul Wilson’s THE TOMB, and book 2 could be amazing). Give us some really non-traditional monsters (think of the monsters in F. Larry Correia has set himself up to have a fantastic sequel, but we think he needs to get a little less cliché in the follow-up. There are great elements of humor, seriousness, danger, faith (this was actually really neat), and romance.
The pacing lags in a few spots, but really, this is a great first novel. So what does all this vague gibberish mean? Is the book worth reading? Buying? Well, for $8 you can grab a copy, and it is easily worth the read. Great for readers who love action/horror/monster urban fantasy. MONSTER HUNTER INTERNATIONAL is a great read that's deceptively intelligent. Correia manages to handle the aftermath of it in a GREAT way (hopefully we will see more of these consequences in book 2), but still…it bugged us quite a lot. The mechanism for getting out of it bothered us quite a bit–read it and you will know exactly what we mean.
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It is full of awesome in a bad way for the characters (but great for the readers). Really, the main problem we had (and we have to word things carefully here), is a single event about ¾ through the novel. The dreams foreshadow it in a heavy-handed fashion at times. And really, the ending twist shouldn’t be all that surprising. At times the dreams, and Owen’s reaction to them, are obviously used to move the plot along, and to make it so our PoV has maximum impact in every situation he is involved with in the waking world. Owen, of course, does some dream-walking type stuff. The way some characters act, and the way the plot progresses… well, let’s just say it shouldn’t be surprising. At times the clichés get a little too dense. It’s hard to say a lot without giving it away. As we learned about their back-stories, we immediately became attached to them. And it is good.īut really the character interactions are what sold us on the novel. We see their training, and then right into the guns-a-blazing action. He is joined with a small squad of other newbies who were each recruited after surviving a monster attack of some sort. Really, the story follows Owen Pitt and his journey after being recruited to MHI. The danger represented by each of the different monsters is handled well. It also helps that the monsters are all, well, monsters. It helps that the folks over at MHI get paid like bounty hunters (and paid well)–added a slight change to the formula. Yes, the book is full of clichéd monsters that saturate Urban Fantasy. No, hunting monsters isn’t the most original concept. Owen is injured, but is then offered a job at Monster Hunter International (MHI) as a monster hunter. Owen throws his boss out of a window after a fun introductory action scene. Really, it isn’t so bad though), and then tries to kill Owen. His idiotic boss is bitten and turned into a werewolf (Yeah we know, Urban Fantasy clichés, here we come. For an Urban Fantasy, just the size of the novel made us happy.Īnyways.
This was within a few paragraphs of a 736 page novel.
It was a nice quirk that essentially told us to expect loads of gunplay throughout the novel. As readers, we were immediately pulled into Owen’s story, and loved his obsession with guns.
The connection was further established by the First Person Narrative. Being that Steve is an accountant, he immediately connected with the main PoV (that’s about as far as the similarity between them went though…). It all starts with an accountant, Owen Pitt. In all honesty, we were surprised by how much we enjoyed this novel, and how much we are now looking forward to the sequel. Larry Correia, the author, gives us all the ingredients that a book of this style might typically have, yet somehow makes them more than the sum of their parts. MONSTER HUNTER INTERNATIONAL ( Amazon), on the surface, seems to fit the need that most of us have for mindless, gunfire-laden fiction. See, we really do listen to your requests. How about a requested review from one of our readers, Dan Burton.
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