Monster Squad 1: Return Of The Phoenix

Monster Squad 1 by Heath Stallcup is really just the beginning to a series that is supposed to be all about action, a war between vampires and werewolves, not necessarily on opposing forces. The story is long and convoluted in order to clearly draw battle lines, but really weaves a meandering narrative full of contrived story beats, vapid character development, and overly generous exposition that focuses more on the attempt to manufacture political intrigue out of whole cloth rather than demonst

3.5 Looking for an MHI fix. You can get it here. Book 1 us off to a great start and I've already got the end one. I'm hoping for more character development though, someone in which to cling, love or hate etc. The story itself is action packed and fun though.

Rather than having one or two major ‘this didn’t work for me’ bits (other than the sense of humor, which I’ll get to in a minute), there were a lot of little things. It’s easiest just to say that the writing quality wasn’t very good. Characters lacked believable depth, or were ridiculous in their behaviors; characters’ plans had holes in them; the book ended at an annoying place; etc. One (military) character, upon being captured by the enemy, volunteered an amazing amount of sensitive informati