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Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer.
It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business. And now Owen is their newest recruit.
It’s actually a pretty sweet gig, except for one little problem. An ancient entity known as the Cursed One has returned to settle a centuries old vendetta. Should the Cursed One succeed, it means the end of the world, and MHI is the only thing standing in his way. With the clock ticking towards Armageddon, Owen finds himself trapped between legions of undead minions, belligerent federal agents, a cryptic ghost who has taken up residence inside his head, and the cursed family of the woman he loves.
Business is good . . .
Welcome to Monster Hunter International.
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""Monster Hunter International" isn't great literature, nor does it pretend to be, but it is a barrel (as in gun barrel) of fun where the reader has no remorse seeing the bad guys (i.e. monsters of all varieties) get wasted with virtually every weapon in modern and ancient arsenals. The fun starts where the central character and narrator gets sucked into the monster hunting business when he is forced to kill his boss who, appropriately, had been turned into a werewolf. If the attraction of seeing the fantasy of hideously eliminating a bad boss isn't enough for the reader, then the author offers a full tour of modern armaments and their often more efficient way of taking out various mythical demonic scourges of mankind. For example, although silver bullets still work for werewolves, 81mm mortars and .50-caliber M2 Browning machine guns of the National Guard prove to be an easier and quicker way to kill off the worst vampires than the old stake in the heart. Moreover, some of the worst critters in other mythology are among the good guys in this and some of the good critters are considerably less glamorous than in other stories. One also finds out what it's like to have a vampire, a real vampire, as a prospective mother-in-law. Author Larry Correia hasn't created a great novel, but he sure knows how to make fiction fun."
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International Monster Hunter Larry Correia 9781439132852 Books Reviews
- My husband has been telling me for months to start this saga. He went through the audiobooks in a blink of an eye.
I can see why he enjoyed it so much. I did too. After all, what's not to like about a fantasy involving a great evil, monster killing, and a hero stopping an Apocalypse? It's usually, the best recipe for a great adventure IMO.
For a gun aficionado, this series is heaven. Owen is a sharp shooter and he knows every gun that is cool out there (me I have no idea about any of that). His dad who was in the military, taught him early on to defend himself in hand to hand combat and to become familiar with guns. Owen, now an accountant, enjoys his guns as a hobby and tries to lead a pretty dull life. This is until his boss becomes a werewolf and wants to eat him.
After surviving the attack, Owen finds himself getting a new job offer. He could return to his (boring) job or he can train and become part of the secret group called Monter Hunter International who takes care of the bad monsters who are hiding in plain sight. Yes, vampires, werewolves, gargoyles do exist and someone has to take them out. The Government knows about their existence but they don't want the public to panic.
Suddenly, Owen's life gets very complicated. He has a very lucrative but extremely dangerous new job.
Monster Hunter International is a cool fantasy. It has a set of very unique characters.
In regards to the romance, I wasn't sure about Julie's character, Owen's love interest, but she grew on me. By the end, I couldn't see him with anyone else.
Cliffhanger No
4/5 Fangs - "Monster Hunter International" isn't great literature, nor does it pretend to be, but it is a barrel (as in gun barrel) of fun where the reader has no remorse seeing the bad guys (i.e. monsters of all varieties) get wasted with virtually every weapon in modern and ancient arsenals. The fun starts where the central character and narrator gets sucked into the monster hunting business when he is forced to kill his boss who, appropriately, had been turned into a werewolf. If the attraction of seeing the fantasy of hideously eliminating a bad boss isn't enough for the reader, then the author offers a full tour of modern armaments and their often more efficient way of taking out various mythical demonic scourges of mankind. For example, although silver bullets still work for werewolves, 81mm mortars and .50-caliber M2 Browning machine guns of the National Guard prove to be an easier and quicker way to kill off the worst vampires than the old stake in the heart. Moreover, some of the worst critters in other mythology are among the good guys in this and some of the good critters are considerably less glamorous than in other stories. One also finds out what it's like to have a vampire, a real vampire, as a prospective mother-in-law. Author Larry Correia hasn't created a great novel, but he sure knows how to make fiction fun.
- I was really surprised at the quality of the writing, having never heard of the author before. I picked up the novels all at once since they were only available in paperback and cheap. I really enjoyed not only the story line and the characters, but really like the little side development and interactions between the characters which absolutely don't have to be included, adding nothing to the story except to flesh out the current situation or location. But, without seeming to be contrived at all, just a natural happening for the characters.
Now, I'm huge John Ringo fan, purchased and read pretty much everything he's ever published. This reminds me a bit of that, at least in how the story develops and the action takes place. But in a 'nice", "clean" way. Unlike Ringo's 'Kildar' series, this has some of the same kind of action - except with monsters, not terrorists, and no S&M or really any kind of overt sexual stuff. I'd be ok with this in a middle school library. - Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer.
How can you argue with a description like that?
Yes, chapter one involves a brawl between the above mentioned Owen Pitt, and his boss, who has become a monster of a completely different stripe than he had been. Let's just say that I would have considered throwing him out a window before he became a large furry sociopath.
Yup. Pitt has to go toe-to-toe with a freaking werewolf. And he has no silver.
After Pitt hands in his resignation the hard way, he has officially fallen down the rabbit hole. Monsters are real -- all of them. Pick a B-Movie horror film or a Lovecraftian monster. There are only two forces that deal with the legion of nightmares (that we see in this book). One is the Monster Control Bureau (MCB), a government bureaucracy that looks like it's run by either the Keystone cops, or whatever random thugs can be brought in off the street (though it'll turn out that they aren't random). The other group is Monster Hunter, a private organization dedicated to collecting bounties as they exterminate the world's nastier pests -- including vampires, giant spiders, and a few creatures from the black lagoon.
And MHI offers Owen Pitt a job. The perks are good -- play with weapons, hang out with the stunning woman who recruited him, and the paychecks are insane -- and, well, why not?
Unfortunately for Pitt, his first day on the job is going to get messy. He soon finds himself being haunted by an old Jewish ghost, is getting visions of an ancient entity called "the Cursed One"who just arrived on US soil, is hip deep in ghouls, vampires, flying killer gargoyles that bleed magma, and did we mention that the Cursed One might be about to end the world?
MHI has a wonderfully colorful cast of characters. From a former Vegas stripper who is more vicious and bloodthirsty than the lot of them, to Julie, a member of MHI's founding family, who is also a sniper... and her physical description in the book reminds me a lot of Bayonetta, but we won't go there.
There is a wonderfully broad collection of folks here, from the high school chemistry teacher who had to blow up his school filled with spiders, to the poor guy who had to kill his zombiefied students, to the explosive-happy Q-variant, to Earl Harbinger -- an old member of MHI's founding family with an interesting history. The characters are likable, the dialogue engaging, and I don't think I came across a single flaw in the execution.
And yes, this book was awesome from start to finish. It didn't really slow down. Despite the constant description of these books as "gun porn," I have yet to be bogged down by a single page on guns. Most of the time, the weapon details are critical to the plot, considering what fresh new horrors they run into all the time. The chapters that amount to a large training montage are detailed and interesting, and establish the characters better than heading straight into the action.
Then the shooting started, and didn't really stop for another three hundred pages or so.
And just remember vampires only sparkle when they're on fire.
