Having said that, there are definitely flaws with the book.įor starters, as others have pointed out … there actually isn’t much ‘siege’ involved in a book with ‘Siege’ in its title. You’re going to get plenty of battles with evil creatures, lots of details about guns and other weapons, and a solid slice of humour along the way.Īny Correia fan is going to enjoy this one, and I recommend picking it up if you are one. Overall, if you’ve been reading up until now, you’ll largely know what to expect.
Monster Hunter Siege continues this tradition, with a somewhat new bad guy and a new location – the wilds of Russia – which the same characters battle.Ĭorreia uses Monster Hunter Siege to advance both some of the plot he has been building in the Monster Hunter series, in addition to lightly developing some of his characters. It’s not the most amazing meal you’ll ever eat – but it’s the sort of meal you’re happy to eat most days. I have found reading the Monster Hunter series akin to biting into a delicious hamburger. Correia has gradually introduced a larger context for his monster hunters that makes it clear he is setting the stage for an end of series epic showdown between the forces of good – and their champions – and the forces of evil and theirs. Then too, the series has been getting deeper as it has progressed.
His heroes have well-defined character traits based in the ‘capable man faced by insurmountable odds’ approach and are supported by a cast which the author uses to provide comic relief in between the explosions and epic sword, knife and martial arts fights which fill his pages. The books – starting with the bombastic Monster Hunter International – are a highly enjoyable, rollicking read set in our current society, but with the addition of every type of fantasy monster you can imagine – and a bunch of ruthless mercenaries determined to keep society safe from them – as long as it’s at the right price.Ĭorreia’s drawn from strong material for the series.
If you are the type of reader who admires gutsy, humorous, urban fantasy with lots of guns and explosions, you would have had to have been living under a rock for the past decade to have missed Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter series. Review More of the same: Monster Hunter Siege is a largely satisfying new entry in Larry Correia’s popular Monster Hunter series of urban fantasy novels, although it strongly demonstrates Correia’s unwillingness to take risks at this stage of his writing career.
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