At times the clichés get a little too dense. It’s hard to say a lot without giving it away. As we learned about their back-stories, we immediately became attached to them. And it is good.īut really the character interactions are what sold us on the novel. We see their training, and then right into the guns-a-blazing action. He is joined with a small squad of other newbies who were each recruited after surviving a monster attack of some sort. Really, the story follows Owen Pitt and his journey after being recruited to MHI. The danger represented by each of the different monsters is handled well. It also helps that the monsters are all, well, monsters. It helps that the folks over at MHI get paid like bounty hunters (and paid well)–added a slight change to the formula. Yes, the book is full of clichéd monsters that saturate Urban Fantasy. No, hunting monsters isn’t the most original concept. Owen is injured, but is then offered a job at Monster Hunter International (MHI) as a monster hunter. Owen throws his boss out of a window after a fun introductory action scene. Really, it isn’t so bad though), and then tries to kill Owen. His idiotic boss is bitten and turned into a werewolf (Yeah we know, Urban Fantasy clichés, here we come. For an Urban Fantasy, just the size of the novel made us happy.Īnyways. This was within a few paragraphs of a 736 page novel. It was a nice quirk that essentially told us to expect loads of gunplay throughout the novel. As readers, we were immediately pulled into Owen’s story, and loved his obsession with guns. The connection was further established by the First Person Narrative. Being that Steve is an accountant, he immediately connected with the main PoV (that’s about as far as the similarity between them went though…). It all starts with an accountant, Owen Pitt. In all honesty, we were surprised by how much we enjoyed this novel, and how much we are now looking forward to the sequel. Larry Correia, the author, gives us all the ingredients that a book of this style might typically have, yet somehow makes them more than the sum of their parts. MONSTER HUNTER INTERNATIONAL ( Amazon), on the surface, seems to fit the need that most of us have for mindless, gunfire-laden fiction. See, we really do listen to your requests. After she met Earl during the incident at Copper Lake where she was turned, Heather and Earl began to date and are in a serious relationship.How about a requested review from one of our readers, Dan Burton. Heather was a workaholic who stayed at home with her dog Otto, a three-legged German Shepherd. Prior to meeting Earl Harbinger, Heather never had any serious relationships. Because the amulet chose Heather and imbued her with its power, Heather is immune to silver and is also in control of the curse, rather than the curse controlling her. The amulet chose Askel over Koschei and Heather over the Alpha. When Askel and his son died, the amulet's power was passed to Heather, making the amulet her 'birthright'. When Heather's grandfather, Askel, defeated Koschei the Deathless and stole the amulet, the amulet passed some of its power to him. Heather Kerkonen displays an unusual amount of control over her curse, even while being turned during the full moon she still has enough control to be safe around humans, although she's never willing to test that theory in case she's wrong. She is not good at politics and can't pretend to get along with people (or creatures) she does not like. Heather has an aversion to authority figures after her time under Stricken. Sometimes her over-emotional side can get her into trouble. She has a major hero complex and wants to protect whoever she deems "her people". Whatever she cares about, she cares about a lot. Heather is a person with a great deal of passion. Heather is a hardcore "junk food-junkie" and is excited that being a werewolf means that she doesn't have to watch what she eats anymore. Type II Diabetes runs in her family, as does obesity, so she was concerned about maintaining a healthy weight and lifestyle prior to turning into a werewolf. Heather is of Finnish heritage and has a larger nose, bright green eyes and waist-length red hair. Heather is described as being a tall, attractive women in great shape with a great body. Once Heather moved back to her home town, she became a Sheriff's deputy for Copper County until she was bitten by a werewolf and turned.Ĭurrently Heather works for STFU and is dating Earl Harbinger. After taking down a sex-trafficking ring she was on her way to becoming detective when her family's health problems brought her back to Copper Lake. Before she moved to Copper Lake, MI she was a cop in Chicago, IL with a promising career. Heather Kerkonen is the granddaughter or Askel Kerkonen.
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