He tries new settings and makes it all that much more interesting for it. These stories don’t happen in Chicago, LA, or New York. On top of that, he avoids big-city traps that other authors write. Character is king, and Correia makes these characters lovable and admirable.

They’re what SyFy Channel B-movies could be if the characters weren’t idiots, the weapons were accurate, and the writer(s) really tried to do a good job. Why do I keep reading these books? Well, they’re good rip-roaring fun. Owen is invited to come to work for Monster Hunter International, and things go both up and down from there. What ensues is a Men-in-Black-esque briefing about the world of monsters, that they’re real, they’re a big problem, and the government pays private companies good money to hunt them down. Using a combination of firepower and brute strength, Owen kills his boss, but wakes up in a hospital under the watchful care of the MCB (Monster Control Bureau).

When he’s working after hours one night, he gets attacked by his boss, who is actually a werewolf. The premise is this: Owen Pitt is an accountant and gun enthusiast (much like Correia) with a flexible mind and a penchant for pounding the crap out of anyone who shoots first. Just be advised if any of you take my recommendations seriously, there’s a fair amount of language and violence in Larry Correia’s flagship urban fantasy series. This is one of the more adult series that I keep up with, so the tone and content of these is pretty different from what I normally plug.

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