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Owen later gets fired from work for violating this rule. 'I never did like that rule,' I said as I bent down and drew my gun from my ankle holster, put the front sight on the target and rapidly fired all five shots from my snub-nosed. There was nothing recognizably human in that look. His yellow eyes bored into me with raw animal hatred.

'You know that 'no weapons at work' policy?' I asked the twitching and growing hairy monstrosity standing less than ten feet from me. Even though I was in accordance with Texas state law, I was in direct violation of the company's workplace safety rule. To this day I don't know why at that moment I felt the need to make a confession to my rapidly mutating boss. There were plenty of these in Monster Hunter International, but I'll highlight a few to give you a taste: These moments are often accompanied by a somewhat camp utterance, but I think that's an appropriate homage to the monster action genre in general: the hero has to say something pithy just as he or she triumphs.

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Monster Hunter International is full of those 'fuck, yeah!' moments where the hero, against all odds, comes back with the full force of his awakened fury and doesn't just take down the bad guys but obliterates them. When Pitt is fighting monsters, I feel like I'm right there with him, hitting the ground, loading the guns, and coming back up to blow the head off an ugly beastie just before he bites off a piece of me. Correia has a talent for writing the types of 'scene-and-sequel' action sequences that keep the book moving at a healthy pace. Although there are only so many ways to be original when writing about the classic monsters (e.g., vampires, zombies, werewolves), Correia has still managed to create a story that is entertaining and fresh. With that confession out of the way, I'm going to try not to hold Monster Hunter International up against the Dresden Files, or any other series for that matter.

Dresden Files has just burned itself into my brain as the golden standard for urban fantasy. Pitt is a monster hunter (and chartered accountant) he wields submachine shotguns and RPGs to fight the forces of evil. Harry Dresden is a wizard he sets traps and flings around magic to fight the forces of evil. Both the Dresden Files novels and Monster Hunter International deal with urban fantasy and feature a main character with a great voice, but that is about where the similarities end.

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It's more of an action movie stuck inside a novel. I feel like this comparison is somewhat-but not entirely-unfair, because unlike the Dresden Files, this is not really a mystery. I couldn't stop comparing this book to the Dresden Files while I was reading it.