{"id":37,"date":"2010-04-24T10:03:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T15:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2018-04-10T17:28:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T23:28:41","slug":"sampler-monster-hunter-vendetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Sampler:  Monster Hunter Vendetta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So last year I picked up Larry Correia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/go2.wordpress.com\/?id=725X1342&#038;site=larrycorreia.wordpress.com&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMonster-Hunter-International-Larry-Correia%2Fdp%2F1439132852%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1242237420%26sr%3D8-1&#038;sref=http%3A%2F%2Flarrycorreia.wordpress.com%2Fmhi-sample%2F\">Monster Hunter International<\/a>, after the rest of the blogosphere had read it.  I&#8217;d heard good reviews, but honestly the whole premise of guys fighting things that go bump in the night didn&#8217;t really appeal to me.  But I bought it anyways, thinking that at the very least, I should support a fellow gunnie who&#8217;s trying to make a go as an author.<\/p>\n<p>I was blown away by MHI.<\/p>\n<p>I completely devoured it.  MHI was so well written, and so fast paced that I could not put it down.  Larry did such an excellent job blending the real world and the supernatural that I really began to believe that wraiths could be lurking around every corner.<\/p>\n<p>Baen has placed the first 2 chapters of the sequel, <a href=\"http:\/\/go2.wordpress.com\/?id=725X1342&#038;site=larrycorreia.wordpress.com&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fjiltanith.thefifthimperium.com%2Fsite%2Fbook%2FMonsterHunterVendetta%2FPARAMETERS%2F&#038;sref=http%3A%2F%2Flarrycorreia.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F23%2F2-free-sample-chapters-from-monster-hunter-vendetta%2F%23comment-8587\">Monster Hunter Vendetta<\/a>, online.  I read through them yesterday, and they have me stoked for what&#8217;s to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last year I picked up Larry Correia&#8217;s Monster Hunter International, after the rest of the blogosphere had read it. I&#8217;d heard good reviews, but honestly the whole premise of guys fighting things that go bump in the night didn&#8217;t really appeal to me. But I bought it anyways, thinking that at the very least, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dbm","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}