coral reviewed Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia
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4 stars
This is a really fun, mostly pretty predictable book. I can't tell whether the author just overdoes his foreshadowing, or whether he wants the reader to feel clever, since the main character is supposed to be a genius and doesn't figure out a lot of what the reader knows until the very last second. Either way, it's kind of fun to feel so smart.
The narrator of the audiobook, Oliver Wyman, does a fantastic job; I think his voice was a lot of the reason I stuck with this book, despite a fair bit of what I call "gun porn"--loving descriptions of weapons, at great length and in ridiculous detail.
I am loving that this is a total guy book, but the female characters are still fairly realistic--just as brave, flawed, and quirky as the male characters. And not one of them is described breasts-first. (The fact that I even …
This is a really fun, mostly pretty predictable book. I can't tell whether the author just overdoes his foreshadowing, or whether he wants the reader to feel clever, since the main character is supposed to be a genius and doesn't figure out a lot of what the reader knows until the very last second. Either way, it's kind of fun to feel so smart.
The narrator of the audiobook, Oliver Wyman, does a fantastic job; I think his voice was a lot of the reason I stuck with this book, despite a fair bit of what I call "gun porn"--loving descriptions of weapons, at great length and in ridiculous detail.
I am loving that this is a total guy book, but the female characters are still fairly realistic--just as brave, flawed, and quirky as the male characters. And not one of them is described breasts-first. (The fact that I even have to specify that says a lot, doesn't it? Hmm.)
