Monster Hunter International

Monster Hunter International

2007 • 736 pages

Ratings43

Average rating3.5

15

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.

July 30, 2018