![]() ![]() Expect over-the-top feats of strength and awesomeness. It’s a B-movie monster killing novel with lots of guns. The thing is, most of the issues are kinda supposed to be in the novel. ![]() And truthfully some short stories about her adventures would be awesome (probably not a full novel, but a series of connected short stories would totally be great). As usual there won’t be any spoilers in this review, but it’s worth mentioning that Kerkonen doesn’t come off as a copy of the other female characters in the Monster Hunter series. Deputy Heather Kerkonen is a fantastic new cast member. All the other characters of the novel are new, and they all manage to entertain. This side-character story succeeds because Harbinger is a great character with a detailed past. His characters are what keep the readers interested. Correia doesn’t just write mindless action novels. It’s mentioned in every review of Correia’s novels on this blog, and it will continue to be mentioned until people wise up. MONSTER HUNDER ALPHA is a B-movie monster killing novel with lots of guns, silly one-liners, and over-the-top feats of strength and awesomeness. From the accurate gun-play to the brutal claw-to-claw werewolf battles, it will have you grinning ear-to-ear. There aren’t too many people that pull off action in Urban Fantasy as well as Correia does, and he doesn’t disappoint here. The action of the novel is, of course, extremely well done. The novel plays out a bit like the isolation horror tale of 30 Days of Night, but using werewolves instead of vampires. The current portion of the story deals with Harbinger being notified that his nemesis (an ex-KGB werewolf) is running around the woods of Michigan. The entries ride a fine line of almost overpowering the actual modern-day story without actually managing to do so–yeah, they are completely awesome. So what we have is a series of journal entries describing how Harbinger became the werewolf he is today. It starts following the events of MONSTER HUNTER VENDETTA with Harbinger deciding to write down his crazy past. In fact, the novel succeeds at feeling very fresh and different from the previous Monster Hunter stories. MONSTER HUNTER ALPHA, fortunately for everyone, never falls prey to those problems. More often than not the story feels like a money grab. So often the danger in writing a full story focused on a side character is that it doesn’t feel natural or full developed. This novel will easily please Correia’s legions of fans. Larry relented, and we have MONSTER HUNTER ALPHA ( Amazon) to show for it. From the moment the character Earl Harbinger was introduced in MONSTER HUNTER INTERNATIONAL, fans pleaded for Larry to write more about the werewolf. This was the case with Larry Correia‘s Monster Hunter series. But if we are lucky (sometimes), we get a full novel with that chosen side character as the main focus. A lot of times we see this in the form of some short stories or novellas. The readers beg, plead and offer bribes to the author for more information or more “screen time” for their beloved side-character. There comes a time in nearly every series where the side characters of the first two or three novels become so interesting that they take on a life of their own. ![]()
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