They are the first line of defense against the things that go bump in the night. They are the keepers of a centuries-old legacy of The Church defending the world against the forces of darkness. They are a bunch of highly armed rednecks, internet video celebrities, soccer moms, and assorted broken nutjobs.They are the new Templars, and things are about to get weird. From the pages of Bubba the … weird.
From the pages of Bubba the Monster Hunter comes a new series featuring the Hunters from around the United States hunting down monsters, fighting off supernatural baddies, and making life really, really bad for the things that hunt people.
He’s Mason Dixon, and he’s a bona fide internet celebrity. He has his own video series, a pistol that deserves its own area code, and a high definition video camera, and he’s not afraid to use any of them.
In this introductory urban fantasy novella, we meet Mason, his right hand Emma, his “handler” Noah, his anime-styled hacker friend Himari, and more monsters than you can shake a stick at. Unless it’s a really big stick.
With Mason, it’s always a big stick. This first novella in the series follows Mason through the wilds of Missouri as he hunts down monsters that hunt men, monsters that eat chewing tobacco, and monsters that make pancakes. And there’s moonshine.
And then Bubba the Monster Hunter shows up.
The New Templars novella series is a new series of short novels, similar to BookShots. Mason Dixon – Monster Hunter is the first in the series by popular urban fantasy and steampunk author Eric R. Asher.
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What a fun book. Mason Dixon is the star of a YouTube monster hunter series who is also employed by the church as a hunter. Although the creatures he hunts are real, he intentionally makes his show campy and hard to believe to protect viewers’ sanity. The characters in the book are fantastic. I am especially partial to Stanley. Although the book is about monsters, it is filled with humor.
Mason Dixon is the perfect addition to the Bubba world.
Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Bubba the Monster Hunter by John Hartness. But I’m more of a subtle humor kind-of gal instead of Bubba’s overt funny, and Eric Asher’s take on the Bubba sandbox with a crypo-hunter creating a faux youtube show about real hunts he goes on is LOL funny to me.
The new Monster Hunter series by Falstaff is still comedic, and monsters, and rural-sassiness. But subtler, smoother. Like finely aged apple shine. One left in the barn the entire winter before drinking.
The first part of the book introduces us to Mason Dixon and the second part of the book, after the major action is done, ties the series into the larger Bubba world.
I received this book for free. I am voluntarily leaving this review and all opinions expressed herein are mine.
This is the first three books in the Mason Dixon, Monster Hunter series. It is a standalone story with no cliffhanger ending but what could be viewed as the start of the next story in the series.
The MC Mason Dixon is the host and hunter of a YouTube series which he believes no one really watches. He goes out to hunt real [and imagined] monsters with purposefully blurred or doctored images to keep up the facade of is it real? Mason is a great character – he is funny, at times superficial and completely human. This was a well-written and humorous monster hunt.
The narrator, Joel Froomkin is someone with whom I am familiar from several historical fiction books where he has a distinctive British aristocratic accent. So I wasn’t sure how he was going to do with an American swashbuckler series – well, he does it very well. No trace of the Bristish aristocracy but a pure American [and at times southern] accent. He was perfect and conveyed the sense of adventure and fun in his narration.
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I did not know what I was getting when I first started reading this book. I did not read any description, only knew that it was wrote by an author I liked, because I wanted it to be a surprise read. Indeed it was.
The first few pages I thought were a bit slow, really only because I did not realize that his monsters were real and not merely a human searching for fairy tales. Once I realized that this is real, I was able to read it and enjoy it a lot more fully.
Mason hunts/searches out cryptids that have either been spotted by the locals of different areas or are harming people in said areas. He has his own internet show about them that he finds a surprising number of people (and things) watch. He and his camerawoman go on different adventures and finds many things, including a mystery that has yet to be solved…