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Title: Saints
Series: Monster Hunter Memoirs #3
Author: John Ringo, Larry Correia
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Pages: 288
Format: Digital Edition
Series: Monster Hunter Memoirs #3
Author: John Ringo, Larry Correia
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Pages: 288
Format: Digital Edition
Synopsis:
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Chad blows up at
MCB after the experience in New Orleans. This puts him on their Super
Shit List and one of the agents starts making things personal. A bad
scrying shows Chad is involved with a black magic group kidnapping
virgins to raise an Old One. Turns out it is Chad's brother but that
makes Chad involved anyway. Chad takes down his brother and stops the
ring. That's enough proof for the agent AND Agent Franks. Franks
beats Chad almost to death and hospitalizes him. Chad then sues MCB
and while things are in full swing heads over to England to do some
reasearch at the Van Helsing Institute.
There he
investigates why some of the occurrences are happening in New
Orleans. Turns out, his brother has slightly awakened an Old One's
cocoon. The Agent in charge of MCB in New Orleans has taken MCB being
sued by Chad extremely personal so he does nothing when even Earl
Harbinger tells him there is a baby Old One about to wake up and eat
the world. That means its up to MHI to toe the line again and stand
between the Earth and total destruction. MHI wins. Was there any ever
doubt? Of course, they get a little help from the Fey and a High
Hunt.
The books ends with
Earl taking over and describing the events at the Christmas Party
where Ray Shackleford IV almost destroys MHI. Turns out it is Earl
and Chad who close the Portal to the Old One and Chad gives his life
to allow Earl to do so.
My
Thoughts:
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This was a great wrapup to the trilogy. A nascent Old One growing
under New Orleans? Man, how much more of a threat can you get than
that? Everything leads up to that though, so the story goes from
threat to threat to threat.
Everything isn't directly connected, so things feel a little
discombobulated sometimes. The whole thing with his brother ends so
quickly that there was no tension and besides it leading into Chad
getting the snot beat out of him, was rather anti-climactic.
Chad's time in England was boring. It didn't help that the story
about the ghost and the super special metal was included in the
Monster
Hunter Files anthology so I kind of felt cheated. Him
teaching was just as boring.
The final battle was EVERYTHING I want out of a Monster Hunter
International fight. Guns, bombs, flamethrowers, Holy Water, and so
many monsters. So many, many monsters. Ringo and Correia did a
fantastic job of making this a pulse pounding fight!
The ending, with Chad's sacrifice, was how this trilogy needed to
end. Chad's story had a beginning and this was his end. For all his
philandering, dickheaded braggodocio and general arrogance, Chad goes
out like a hero.
Overall, this was a worthwhile read in the MHI universe, even if a
little bit off from Correia's style.
★★★★☆
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