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Title: Monster Hunter International - Free!
Post by: airboy on May 31, 2015, 07:48:38 AM
Monster Hunter International is now free from www.baen.com
http://www.baenebooks.com/c-1-free-library.aspx?sectionID=176

I highly recommend this book if you like modern-day, well written, action books.  The premise is that monsters are real, that President Teddy Roosevelt put in place a bounty system for killing monsters, and there are professional monster hunters out there.

Couple this with a government agency charged with keeping the existence of monsters secret and you have a free-market oriented, weapon happy, monster killing environment.

I own every book in this series.  It is awesome!!!!  I've given copies of the book to buddies.  Everyone I gave it to bought every other book in the series. 

Warning - if you read the first book you may have sold your soul to reading every other book in this series.  This is the Baen "here - try the crack for free! marketing method."

Title: Re: Monster Hunter International - Free!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 31, 2015, 07:55:14 AM
Thanks for the heads-up!

How do these compare to the 'Laundry Files' series of books by Charles Stross? (assuming that you've read any  :)))
Title: Re: Monster Hunter International - Free!
Post by: Nefaro on May 31, 2015, 08:16:27 PM
Thanks.  I'll check it out.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter International - Free!
Post by: Skwerl on June 26, 2015, 02:55:03 PM
Thanks for the tip!  This sounds like a great read.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter International - Free!
Post by: bob48 on June 26, 2015, 03:31:42 PM
Excellent - just downloaded it for free on my Kindle  O0
Title: Re: Monster Hunter International - Free!
Post by: bob48 on July 02, 2015, 09:33:28 AM
I'm more than half way through and it is a very entertaining book. I can see me eventually reading the rest of the series. Good stuff.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter International - Free!
Post by: airboy on July 09, 2015, 11:34:09 AM
Quote from: bob48 on July 02, 2015, 09:33:28 AM
I'm more than half way through and it is a very entertaining book. I can see me eventually reading the rest of the series. Good stuff.

Glad you enjoyed it.  The audio versions are also exceptionally well done.

I was given "monster hunter" swag for my birthday.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter International - Free!
Post by: bob48 on July 09, 2015, 12:32:34 PM
Finished the first one, and enjoyed it - the rest are on my 'to read' pile. O0