Dare I say better than MHI

Well, the story and characterisation is definitely as good as early monster hunter international books. The main character isn’t as likeable as Z but he does grow on you. The reader manages to convey easily the fact that it is a different character speaking, although this does mean that some characters voices have changed as they are being passed through a different narrator. Cool new monsters, cool new species, monster hunting is about badass humans biting evil monsters with wisecracks and superior firepower… Now they have A dude with a sword! Yes he is a bit of an arsehole but he is a bad ass as well!

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laughing out loud from behind the sofa

enjoyable trip to the world of monster hunter international, that combines grand battles with assorted evils, blood, gore, and lots (and lots) of guns with a narrator who'll have you laughing out loud from where you're hiding from the bad things behind the sofa.

highly recommended

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A good edition to the Monster Hunter International story

A good and easy read. Even though it is not need I would advise reading a least one of the novella from the Monster Hunter series as it will give you a better flavour and understanding of Larry world of Monsters & Myths

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great series

Very much enjoyed this (Grunge) and the second book (Sinners) which left quite a few questions unanswered, however, having just gone onto the writers blog I see that there will be a third and last book in the series which I hope will answer the queries in my other review. It seems the last book 'Saints' will be released in July 2018. :)

Love the narration by oliver wyman, really grabs your attention. There are some very funny one liners and laugh out loud moments in both books.

Overall, I have enjoyed the series of monster hunter books and hope they will continue

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Good story

Good story with some good laughs and some really interesting story telling well worth listening to

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loved it

Well written and engaging story with plenty of detail even when you don't want it :-)

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great addition to the monster hunter series

great addition to the monster hunter series, answers some question about MHI and provides great action and some really funny moments.

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Enjoyable

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this after finishing the main Monster Hunter series of books.

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Mary Sue. Or Marty Stu, if you like.

I initially hoped it would somehow redeem itself before I totally lost patience and returned it, but it could only realistically do that by seriously changing tracks - for example, by explaining that the protagonist began his life as remarkably unlikeable, self-obsessed, convinced of his own exceptional brilliance, obsessed with loathing for others and with a mental monologue peppered with racial slurs because he's infested by brainworms from another dimension? When a character spontaneously breaks out in algebra in kindergarten and mysteriously becomes infested by a variety of classical languages and elite musical performance skills shortly thereafter, there better be a really, really convincing reason for it, and ideally I should not have to wait through another hour of a person burbling about stuff like mowing gardens as a teenager to find out what it is. Also, when that payload arrives, it should be a little bit more interesting than the cliché 'Because He Is A Chosen One.' Eventually gave up on it.

Really surprised me as I read Monster Hunter International etc and enjoyed 'em, and have read other books by John Ringo and got on with them too, but this book reads like Sam Fisher (of E-force fame) wrote it on a bad day, on a short deadline, while suffering from a severe migraine headache. Seeing as Sam Fisher reads like bad Thunderbirds fanfiction, that's saying something. The Internet tells me that this installment indeed reads like fanfiction because it was written by Ringo as fanfiction, the whole thing, Chad included, being one of those fanfictiony spoofs of something that was already arguably 80% spoof, which would be a perfectly reasonable approach if the thing were distributed for free, as fanfiction generally is.

Performance is OK, so there's that.

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Gary Sue Memoirs: God Awful

Getting the good out if the way first the book is read really well and no complaints there and the valley girl jokes are pretty funny.

Sadly however the book really goes downhill from the start as the main character is immediately revealed to be a complete Gary Sue that is the bestest ever marine, intellectual, musician, swordsman, pick up artist and super coolest guy in the world that totally gets Japan and isn't a total weeb ever times a million.

I mean I could even suffer Early Suebringer from the main HMI series because at least that series is actually exciting when he's not in it but this one is dull as ditchwater and I genuinely wanted the main character to die the entire time. Don't waste your time with this one.

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