Kirkus Style Review

Monster Hunter International  by Larry Correia

 

Waking up in a hospital after tossing his boss out of a window and finding out monsters are in fact real, scarred and battered Owen Z. Pitt gets a job offer to kill more of them with Monster Hunter International.

Surviving the attack by his werewolf boss is the catalyst of Owen's entry into this secret society.  He accepts the job to become a monster hunter in a private company that trains and works with others who survived their own attacks. Of course, immediately after he is employed, there is a horrible enemy that appears and Owen and his fellow hunters need to save the world.  Unfortunately, readers are continually reminded that the main protagonist is large, ugly, and bald, and although he is not perfect at everything, he's oh-so-close. The fellow hunters are all uninspiring, especially the two female characters who are nothing more than bland clichés; one is a stripper that only wanted to put herself through medical school and the other is the main character's love interest, with whom he fell for at first sight after watching her shoot a gun better than he can. However, the real love story, waxed poetically upon pages and pages, are all things regarding guns and bullets. The premise of this book sounds intriguing: a secret group that may have to save the world as they fight against these real-life monsters. Alas, the result gives readers nothing new, using all the common tropes of the genre, without any satisfying reward at the end of this very lengthy novel.