I don’t begrudge Mr Correia this one bit, mind you. Monster Hunter International does have its charms despite being so obviously an exercise of self-gratification on the author’s part.

So, will Larry eventually rise to the top and penetrate the trophy female in triumph with his virile overflowing testosterone overload? Of course he will, darling. This only makes him more special to MHI, naturally, despite the fact that there is nothing about Larry that marks him as psychic, religious, related to aliens, or whatever that would attract dream buddies like he does in this story. So anyway, our hero Larry isn’t just super amazing and awesome, he is also visited in dreams by a mysterious figure who gives him inside information on the rise of an Old One, aided by the Cursed One and some Master Vampires in what seems to be a plot straight out of HP Lovecraft’s imagination. If you look up Mr Correia’s background and photo, you may come to the reasonable conclusion that Owen is Mr Correia, only with extra steroids and even more extra inches in the pee-pee department. Owen, by the way, may be an accountant but he is built like a tank while at the same time moving in “unbelievable” speed, aims and shoots like a professional, spent time in the military and underground fighting circuit, knows everything, speaks and understands a dozen or so languages fluently, takes down monsters even without prior training… oh, and his brother is in a rock band.

The MHI eventually recruits him, and he even gets the girl – the daughter of the MHI boss – when he’s not usurping the current golden child’s spot in the MHI (this fellow, Grant, was Julie’s boyfriend until Owen comes along) and getting special powers to help him rise up the MHI ranks. The boss transforms into a werewolf and tries to chomp on Owen for dessert, but Owen puts up an amazing fight and ends up sending the werewolf out a 14th story window and down. Owen Zastava Pitt is an accountant who hates his boss and his job, and the hatred comes to a head when he works late one night and stumbles upon the boss in the middle of chewing on human body parts in the office. What better way to introduce the internal working of the MHI by having a newbie join the group, undergo training, and rise up the ranks, right?

If they don’t get paid, they may be paying for any mistake with their lives. Monster Hunter International is the first book in a series revolving around a group of organized bounty hunters of the same name, who get paid for killing the spooks that threaten the good folks in this world. Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia

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