Julie, while not incredibly developed in the previous books is reduced to a vehicle for complaining about government, the EU and gun control while talking about how bad ass she is and how much she loves her baby. Libertarianism, Europe bad, Julie loves her babyĬongratulations, in reading the title of this review you have now read the entire book. My suggestion-don’t buy this until Correa comes out with the next book-then listen to the two in order-hopefully the next book will eclipse this one. I’d of thought the editor could have stopped this travesty? When Butcher and Audible blew Ghost Story, he manned up and had it re-read by his partner voice actor-for free-but how does one recover from both poor writing and poor reading? Not sure. Shouldn’t the new reader at least listen to the previous books? As a reader, you likely need this book to get to the next one. Maybe the original reader could have covered over some of the poor writing, but this reader was even less engaged with the Monster Hunter series than the author! Name one series where changing the reader in the middle was a good thing? This women has no southern accent, missed Julie’s normal behavior/attitude completely, and gave us a whiney ‘girl’ that couldn’t pronounce Earl’s last name, or any of the European monster hunters’s last name either. Correa wrote an outline, then had serious life issues that caused him to be fully out of touch with this text. The reader was bad for this character, and I have to imagine Mr. I’ve read this series, and the Memoirs set, multiple times. Really hurts your brand.Ĭan’t really skip it, but not like the rest Correia, why did you and your producers do this to your loyal fans? It would have been better for there to be no book at all instead of this horrible offering. I am returning this book unfinished because I could not get through the first few chapters. I strongly recommend that you NOT purchase this book if you are a MHI world lover. Doing so basically changes ALL the characters in the book and in the MHI world, the characters are a major draw. Note to producers - you should NEVER change narrators in a well loved series, particularly when the narrator being replaced, such as Oliver Wyman, is fantastic. Not at all the way Julie should sound - and I mention again that the voices of all my favorite characters are totally different, and wrong, Totally ruins the listening experience. The female narrator in MH Guradian sounds like a California teenager. On top of that, the narrator of MH Guardian is not good. and his absence ruins the whole book for me because the voices of the characters I love are all missing. Oliver Wyman's voice is one of the MHI main strengths. The narrator is NOT the narrator I am used to hearing for the previous books in this series and whom I adore. Larry Correia apparently had no part in the writing of the book - not his style of writing or his sense of humor. This is NOT a Monster Hunter International book as we know it! Because I absolutely LOVE the MHI world, I automatically bought it without looking at the reviews and did not notice the addition of an author. But Julie Shackleford is no ordinary woman - she’s one tough mother! It’s one woman against an army of monsters. And she’ll have to do it all before Brother Death can unleash the Kamaresh Yar. To reclaim her son, Julie Shackleford will have to fight her way through necromantic death cults, child-stealing monsters, and worse. But when you’re dealing with an ancient evil, the devil is in the details. With no other choice left to her, Julie agrees to Brother Death’s demands. If Julie doesn’t hand over the artifact it means death - or worse - for baby Ray. The price for his safe return: the Kamaresh Yar. Then Ray goes missing, taken by Brother Death. In the wrong hands, it could destroy reality as we know it. Julie is the Guardian of a powerful ancient artifact known as the Kamaresh Yar, and Brother Death wants it. But when a routine field call brings her face-to-face with an unspeakable evil calling itself Brother Death, she’ll get more excitement than she ever hoped for. Julie’s devoted to the little guy, but the slow pace of office work and maternity leave are starting to get to her. Her task: hold down the fort and take care of her new baby son Ray. When Owen Pitt and the rest of the Monster Hunter International crew are called away to mount a month’s-long rescue mission in a monster-infested nightmare dimension, Julie Shackleford - Owen’s wife and descendant of MHI founder Bubba Shackleford - is left behind. New entry in the best-selling Monster Hunter International series by Dragon Award-winning authors Larry Correia and Sarah A.
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