Author: Larry Correia
Publisher: Baen
Review: Jeff
I was a little intimidated at start with the 713 page count, but this book is so fun, and entertaining that it didn't feel long at all. I think I would file this under urban fantasy, but most urban fantasys the main character is either a wizard, a vampire, an exorcist, or at least has some sort of special gift that he/she uses to take on creatures that a regular person could not. That isn't really the case in this story. In this story they fight vampires, zombies, and all kinds of other evil, but these guys don't use magic or special gifts to fight them, these guys fight them with REALLY BIG GUNS!
Owen Pitt the main character in this book, is having a normal day at his boring acounting job when his jerk of a boss calls him into his office before he is going to leave for the day. Well this time he finds out that his boss turns into a werewolf! After a few close calls Owen survives the werewolf attack by throwing his boss out of a 14th story window.
Owen didn't even know that werewolfs exist, but now that he does there are people visiting him in the hospital to tell him about the different kinds of evil in the world but he can't tell anybody, and even if he did they would just think he is crazy. They also have the fight with the werewolf caught on tape from the security cameras in the office. Since Owen handled himself so well against the werewolf they tell him about a team of people who kill monsters for a living called Monster Hunter International. They also ask him if he would like to join.
I am not a "gun nut" but I would expect that those who are would really apriciate the detail of the different guns that the different members of the team use. I don't know the first thing about guns so I kinda just picture everyone with huge guns fighting the different monsters they encounter throughout the book.
Monster Hunter International soon finds out that there is an evil being called the Cursed One, and he controls seven master vampires that all seemed to be dertermend to help the cursed one use an ancient artifact that on a specific time, and at a specific place can cause a rift in time and basically destroy the world as we know it.
Throughout the book Owen also has dreams. In these dreams he sees a "Yoda" like character that shows Owen the Cursed Ones past and hints on what he needs to do to defeat him. At start I admit I thought I would have got tired of these dreams, and thought maybe they could have been left out of the book to trim the page count a little bit. Towards the end though I didn't really mind them at all and I think it added to the book and made the ending even better.
I really enjoyed this book from start to finish. There is tons of action, the characters are great and fun to root for. The humor in the book was also something I apriciated as there are moments that are very funny. I look forward to reading the second book Monster Hunter Vendetta wich comes out in October. The second book is half the amount of pages wich is still a good amount for a book. I definatly recomend this book if you love action packed with lots of guns, blood, vampires, and everything that goes along with it. Check it out if you get a chance, I'm glad I did.
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