Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge

Generally speaking, I am not really into short stories. Even with series that I love already based on the novels... I almost always just skip the short story collections and such. Something about the format doesn't work well with me.
Now this book is somewhere between a novel and a short story collection. Still the same universe as Monster Hunter International, though a different city, a different team and a whole new protagonist, namely Oliver Chadwick Gardenier, previously a Marine, now monster hunter.

I would absolutely not recommend to read this before MHI and by that time I think you already know what sort of a thing to expect. It's fun, it's fast, it talks about the different, more important cases during the early career of Chad, what he did before hunting, how he got into it, how he was doing at first.
Let me tell you, he is good at everything. Chad is a.... chad, really. But there is something hilariously fun about the way they just absolutely demolish things that come to mess with the humans in their area. It's perfect to just relax, have a fun time and let it go.

Not everyone will like it. We know that much. But man, if you like this kind of stuff, you will most likely have an absolute blast with it.