Monster Hunter Legion

Yep, that's a dragon.

Newsflash, I still freaking adore this series and nobody can tell me I am wrong to do that. This book in specific, is possibly my favourite. Then again, I love all of them. But there is just something ridiculously hilarious about this one. I also love dragons.

In Las Vegas they organise the first international convention for monster hunters, so MHI needs to take part, right? Hunters work hard, party hard, earn big money they enjoy spending as well, the fight each other, because hey, they are all alpha as hell, which you need to go against unearthly powers. (Doesn't help that right next door someone has a huge gun trade show thing. Go figure.)
Then... monsters start popping up. Ones that have absolutely no place in Las Vegas. Why? How? What do we do now???

At this point we have so many cool characters and a convention is exactly the kind of place where they all can hang out and interact with each other.
Bonus points for more Mosh. He is a disaster and I love him.

Not much else to say about this, it's more like a monster-of-the-week thing with introducing a bigger context and setting things up. You could almost call it filler. BUT. It's the best kind, where you just fall in love with the characters even more than you did before. I needed it. The story needed it.
You would think we can't do much else interesting after the whole cosmic horror of book 2, but this is just different. After that stuff you hardly feel like characters can't handle this, it's still a lot of excitement and fun.

All in all, to me this is hall of fame, best stuff, highest shelf.

After the high of Alpha, Legion was a bit of a let down to be frank. The monster that was unleashed did not really rise to my expectations and the other hunters were pretty poor too. Hope the next one makes up for this one.

This book has been amazing. Larry Correia keeps them coming and I can't get enough. I read through this very fast because I kept wanting to pick back up and not stop. The latest Monster Hunter International book was fast paced and added more to the story so far. We see the return of a lot of characters that we are all familiar with and get a glimpse at the big picture. Owen is struggling in this book with becoming who he needs to be. We meet some of the major players here now too, things that have been foreshadowed through the past three books finally starting to come around.

What I did see here was much less persepctiv changes, while the last book Monster Hunter Alpha had more than the first two this one had almost no change at all. 90% of the book is told from Owen's perspective this time. Sorry for those fans of the other characters but I have a feeling we'll see more from them in upcoming books as the four chosen ones have been hinted at. We already saw a book dedicated to Earl in this aspect and now one for Owen. Maybe the next one we will see is Julie's turn up to bat?

Anyway, to all fans of the series you will love this latest entry into the series, and to new readers, start with MonsterHunter International and work your way up. It is definately worth it and will keep you better informed.