Monster Hunter International

Freaking epic

Adrenaline rush, bloody pure adrenalin rush. Seriously, started slow but once the action started it was nonstop. Loved it and loved some of the concepts. Got to know many things. There are some reviews about authors comments or something. But, as an Indian I don't care about US politics lol. So this was fun and if the series will be like this, I will read it.

Owen Pitt is a masculine power fantasy who joins a private militia to kill monsters for profit and stick it to The Man. He's so good at hurting things, he scared himself into becoming an accountant. The accounting thing is used for a few punchlines and little else. He hits on the attractive female hunter repeatedly regardless of her refusals and her already being in a relationship.

The opening fight is especially gory. The others might have been as well but they go on and on so long I stopped paying attention by the time serious injuries occurred. The only thing more tedious than the fights are the specifications of every single gun and blade carried by every single character.

Painful racial and cultural stereotypes abound.

There's an okay story buried in there but it's not really worth finding.

3.5 Really entertaining dude-lit!

???Our business is monsters. And business is booming.???

Owen Zastava Pitt was just trying to be normal. He used to be a bouncer who spent his evenings participating in illegal pit fights, but he managed to earn a CPA and became a boring accountant for a big corporation ??? pension and dental benefits included. Being tall and weighing in at 300 lbs, he didn???t quite look like an accountant ??? and he still spent his weekends as a gun hobbyist ??? but he was making progress???. until his boss turned into a werewolf and Owen managed to defeat him and push him out a window on the 14th story of their office building.

That caught the attention of a covert freelance organization called Monster Hunters International. In contrast to the secret government organization that hunts monsters, MHI is a family business. The Shackleford family has selectively recruited and trained a group of highly skilled men and women who work in teams to rid the world of all sorts of dangerous supernatural creatures. Then they collect large bounties from a special government fund. It???s extremely lucrative, but extremely dangerous, too.

Owen???s stature, militant upbringing, gun expertise, quick wits, and tenacity are exactly what MHI is looking for. When they send Julie Shackleford to interview Owen, he can???t resist her good looks and her guns. So Owen signs up for the craziest job in the world and is soon dealing with vampires, gargoyles, ghouls, zombies, werewolves, meddling government bureaucrats, and the insects of the Deep South. He gets some help from his diverse set of MHI colleagues and the good supernaturals ??? head-banging orcs, trailer park elves, and the ghost of a dead Jewish man that lives in his head.

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