While there were some stories written by favorite authors, and others by authors I have always intended to read, there was much that turned me off of this collection. I think the over-emphasis on heavy guns and ammo in several, including teenagers with assault rifles, were too over the top for me.

I appreciated the variety of what are considered monsters by the authors: not just gangs of trolls living underground and nasty werewolves, but also Imhotep and an encounter with Dippel's Oil by Benjamin Franklin. The Monster Hunters International (MHI) Organization is kept intact by all of the authors, although there do seem to be competing factions within the monster hunting world.

But, I will steer clear of this series. The idea of blowing away "Others" by great firepower is just not my thing. ( )

The Monster Hunter Files
(Monster Hunter International)
by Larry Correia (Author, Editor)
I love the Monster Files and this has different author's stories. I like these authors but I felt some of these stories were only about 3 stars and some 4 stars. Most 3 stars! I liked them just not what I am used to with Monster Files.
The narration varied also with each story. ( )

Kurzgeschichten aus dem Monster Hunter International Universum - von Jim Butcher zum Beispiel. Das kann nur grossartig werden! Oder auch mal klitzeklein ;)

Ja, die Geschichten sind teils nicht ganz so packend, aber die meisten haben mir sehr gut gefallen. ( )

Fabulous audiobook, filled with excellent short stories perfect for travel, walking, sitting or just ignoring the people around you. The narration was very well done. I think this is the first anthology where I enjoyed all the stories and authors.
Two of my favorite authors were included in this monster hunter collection of short stories, Jim Butcher, and Faith Hunter. Both write fabulous characters and truly wicked monsters, so I was thrilled when I won a copy of this. Yes, both knocked it out of the park with their tales. Really I had no doubts they wouldn't. What surprised me was how much I enjoyed each of the other authors previously unknown to me. I think the last story was my favorite new to me author story, it was about a Golem, I love Golems.
I plan on reading each of the other authors from this collection. ( )

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Title: The Monster Hunter Files
Series: Monster Hunter #7
Author: Larry Correia, et al
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Pages: 336
Format: Digital Edition

Synopsis:

A collection of short stories about various monster hunts and hunters, some good, some bad, all interesting. Correia starts the parade but then each story is by a different author and none are overlapping or interconnected. A nice montage to fill your Monster Hunter craving.

My Thoughts:

I enjoyed this collection immensely. In fact, I stayed up until almost midnight monday night reading it. I kept on telling myself, ok, THIS is the last story for the night. And before you know it, bam, midnight!

There were only 2 stories I actively disliked. One was a Jane Yellowrock/Faith Hunter story. It reminded me why I don't read 99% of Urban Fantasy. Bad attitude assholes with chips on their shoulders so large that they have their own gravitational pull. If I had my druthers, Yellowrock would get run over by her own motorcycle while having her shotgun shoved up certain orifaces. That's how she makes me feel after just a short story. Imagine a book, a whole series? No thank you. The second story was about some vietnam vet who rescues a commune of hippies from a vegetable demon. First, it portrays Vietnam vets as nothing but mentally disturbed violence seekers. You know how many Vets from that time settled down afterwards and just got on with life? Yeah, you don't hear about all of them, they don't make the news. Second, the hippies turn out to be semi-intelligent and OK people. Yeah, I'll believe that in a heartbeat. Hippies are just soft Commies. In fact, if you put a Hardline Communist and a Hippie in a sealed room and gave me a Sig P938 and ONE bullet and told me to choose, I know exactly what I'd do. I'd line them up, Hippy first. At least if the Hardliner survives I'll know he'll go for my jugular. /End ranting and raving/

Here's 2 of my favorites. One about a girl and her hippy dad (hahaha) who move into the Enchanted Forest trailor park because the girl tried to kill her science teacher because he was a werewolf. Not even her father believes her. Of course, moving in where the Queen of the Elves lives doesn't help things. But when the girl helps take out an invading clan of garden gnomes, it's all good! My second favorite was about Janitor One who hooks up with talking mice because his janitor2 coworker opens up a portal to hell to summon a demon because the janitor2 is jealous of how Janitor One actually does his job. I think part of the appeal was how Janitor One would literally try to fight anyone who looked down at him, even Owen Pitt :-) That takes some serious balls.

The rest of the stories varied between pretty good to hohum. Some were funny, some were sad. One of the ho-hum ones dealt with the douchebag hunter from the Monster Hunter Memoirs series. But overall it was nice to get another MHI story. It's about the only Urban Fantasy series I look forward to reading or can even stomach in most cases.

★★★★☆ ( )