The first is the government agency in charge of keeping monsters “under wraps” so as not to spook the public. When he awakens he is visited by two groups. While unconscious he is contacted by a mysterious, eastern European man who tells him he has been chosen for a task to stop the coming storm. Pitt, or “Z”, manages to kill the werewolf, but is seriously wounded–he technically dies on the operating table. And that’s before he turns into a werewolf and tries to kill him. The story is still king, and I enjoyed this story quite a bit.Īnd just what is the story, you ask? Let me tell you! Owen Zustava Pitt is an accountant (who put himself through school as an illegal pit fighter) whose boss is a real monster. There’s certainly a lot of gun description and gun admiration, but it makes a certain amount of sense, as these monster hunters rely on their weapons. So perhaps it could be considered Rural Paranormal Fantomance? Or perhaps “gun porn”. You could maybe consider it Paranormal Romance, except there’s a lot of gunfights, monster-hunting, and other assorted action getting in the way of the romance. You could consider “MHI” urban fantasy, except it mostly takes place in rural Alabama. That bookseller sold enough of his books that he made it on a bestseller list without the help of a major publisher.īefore long Correia had a contract with Baen Books for “Monster Hunter International”. He sold over 2000 copies, and caught the attention of a bookseller who likes to champion independent authors.
#Monster hunter international gun review serial#
Encouraged by the amount of hits his serial was getting, he decided to try a full-blown novel.
He got his start in writing with a collaborative serial on a gun enthusiast forum.
He’s a self-publishing success-story who parlayed his success into not having to be a self-publishing success-story any more. A man punches a woman in the face, knocking her out.I’ve been hearing about Larry Correia for a few years now. We see the skeletons of several animals and humans in a spider cave. Two vehicles fall off a cliff after getting sucked through a lightning vortex, though nobody is permanently injured.Ī man ties his dog tags around his leg in case his head “gets blown off.” Dozens of creatures stampede off a cliff after they are frightened by fire (and one is set on fire). A woman cauterizes a wound using gunpowder. Later, her team finds their burnt remains, and we see their corpses.Īrtemis and Hunter fight several times, punching, kicking and attempting to stab one another. Artemis listens to a recording of her comrades radioing for backup, and we hear gunshots in the background. We see several other people tied up in the spiders’ webs, some dead from being poisoned. The eggs burst open and the baby spiders eat him alive. (One man is crushed beneath a truck when this happens, and others are thrown roughly into rocks.)Ī man wakes up to discover that spider eggs were laid in his skin. However, they are often unsuccessful with multiple people getting eaten, impaled by the sharp extremities of the creatures, or simply thrown around. Characters battle against a variety of monsters, including dragons, giant spiders and a shark-like creature with arms and legs that swims through sand dunes.ĭuring these encounters, humans use guns, swords, fire and explosives to trap, kill and escape their prey (and sometimes split their skulls).
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