Owen saves everyone from the cowardly French vampire, and is left for dead by Julie’s asshole boyfriend (and who didn’t see that one coming?). When the book finally gets back to the action, it’s a mess of vampires on a cargo ship. Multi-page monologues leave the reader with only one questions: Who will be beating our hero with the exposition bat this time? In training, Owen proves that he is the best at every possible thing (except running), earning the admiration of all the instructors. Correia had the fortitude to kill his characters.
We are introduced to some more monster hunters, whom the reader might be tempted to worry about if Mr. The hundred pages or so that pass between the werewolf fight and the first vampire fight are filled with Owen’s monster hunter training. I decided to read this book based on the strength of its action scenes, but to my dismay I found that the narrative is dominated by lectures. He expresses his love by staring at her a lot, and when that doesn’t work, by pretending to be her friend. Owen decides that he is in love (though whether with her or her handguns is sometimes an open question). Afterwards, he is visited at his home by Monster Hunter International’s recruitment team, including one Julie Shackleford, who tells him that not only is he the first man in history to kill a werewolf with his bare hands, but that his scores in various firearm competitions are even better than hers! Also, his college degree proves that he is a genius.
Our hero, Owen Pitt (brother of the heavy metal artist Mosh Pitt - not kidding about that one, either), gets involved in the monster hunting business when he defeats his evil-boss-turned-werewolf in single combat. These days, the only thing they fear is the EPA (and Fish and Wildlife, and OSHA, and…). In the years since, Monster Hunter has made its founder’s family rich by collecting government-sponsored bounties on supernatural creatures like werewolves, zombies, and vampires. The company called Monster Hunter International was founded when a group of good Southern boys got a lynch mob together in order to drive some unsavory elements (read: vampires) out of their town. The plot reads like something intended for a weekend of tabletop gaming, complete with prophetic visions from the storyteller to keep the protagonists on track. Because it was self-published and only later picked up by Baen, Monster Hunter International shows no sign of an editor’s pen. I don’t have space to cover all the flaws in this book, so I’ll just hit the highlights. This book was originally self-published, and owes its success to Mr. And we hate you.”) Unfortunately, I decided to read his novel, Monster Hunter International. I had a warm spot in my heart for Larry Correia after reading his HK rant.
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