There’s no random, pointless scenes where the Good Guys are fighting something for no good reason. The thing that distinguishes these books from others for me is that the action is necessary given the plot elements and the construction of the world. The story moves fast, and there is plenty of action. These people do their whinging while they work, like real people who get things done. There’s none of the usual gray, “everybody does it” dark world where nothing is ever worth doing, and people sit around whinging about their feelings instead of fixing the situation. I get to live in a world where evil has a physical manifestation that you can fight.
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This story and the rest of the series are like a rest for me. He trusts his comrades to do that for him, and goes ahead because he knows he has to. One minor example, he goes forward with planning and executing the operation knowing he won’t be home for the birth of his first child, and knowing he won’t be able to protect his family from the monsters while he is gone. Pitt makes the kind of personal sacrifices routinely expected of soldiers every day, and the cost is made very apparent.
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This involves ship movements, the practicalities of how to shoot an evil giant with an armored vehicle, logistics for 1000 Hunters in a remote and inhospitable location, and what to do when you’re facing the very personification of Chaos. In Siege we see Owen Pitt continue his development from leader of a small unit hunting monsters one at a time, to an officer in charge of taking the battle to the Enemy in a brigade-level operation. Monster Hunter: Siege is far enough along in the series that we have seen the main characters develop from know-nothing civilian, to raw recruit, to veteran Hunters. All the stories have that mix of the fantastical and the practical, down to the exact mix of silver and lead you want in a shotgun shell, to be sure of taking out the werewolves in a cost-efficient manner. These are people who approach a werewolf the same way the exterminator approaches a raccoon in your attic.
That notion of ingenuity and sheer attitude, the idea that not only one should fight evil but one should also be well paid for doing so, that’s very appealing to me. Monster Hunter International is a group of people that made a business out of killing evil creatures.
If monsters like werewolves, vampires, undead zombies and other, more obscure evils really did exist, if Chthonic demons did exert an influence in the world, and you found out… what would you do? Monster Hunter: Siege is published by Baen and runs around 399 pages. I can’t personally read all the books released in 2017, so here’s a guest review by The Phantom.
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