I HATE this book! Everything about it is terrible. I feel cheated of my time and robbed of my money.The plot is a simple one. In fact this would've served better as a novella because 300 pages was too many for what little was in them. And grammar nazis will have a fit, running out of red ink before they turn the last page.For a supposedly lethal hunter and fierce protector of the world against monsters and demons imprisoned behind a veil, Maxine Kiss was a pansy-assed pussy. I'm sorry for my cra...

As suggested, I read the prequel to Iron Hunt in the anthology Wicked Things. The short story was good, held my interest, and had me looking forward to Iron Hunt. However, when I trying to read this novel, I found myself struggling to stay interested. There were also moments where I found myself confused as well. During the first 2/3 of the book, I kept going back and re-reading just to be sure I didn't miss anything. Also, new characters seem to be added at every turn, and when your already con...

The Iron Hunt is a strange book. It took a while for me to get into it, but halfway through I was completely engrossed. However, by the time I got to the end, I was also completely confused.I love good worldbuilding, and Liu has built an intriguing mythology with this series. I don't like books with infodumps that introduce you to the world all in four paragraphs at the beginning, and luckily, The Iron Hunt isn't one of those books. My problem, though, is that Liu never really gives a clear pict...

"When I was eight, my mother lost me to zombies in a one-card draw." That's the first sentence of Marjorie M. Liu's The Iron Hunt, and it's just about perfect as opening lines go. It's the primary reason I bought the book. Not only does it draw the reader in, eager to find out how and why this happened, but I'm also pretty darn sure it's an Angela Carter reference. I love Angela Carter. It would be misleading to suggest, though, that Marjorie M. Liu sounds like Angela Carter throughout The Iron

Cryptic. Not only does everyone speak cryptically to the main character, not really answering her questions about the important elements of her world and what's happening in it, but this is a first-person narration in an uncommonly elliptical style, not unlike the speaking style of several strong, silent types I know. I didn't mind all the sentence fragments because I simply imagined her speaking to me, and the style reflects both her personality and her confusion about who she is and what she i...

The Iron Hunt.Intro Maxine Kiss.By day she is immortal, by night when her tattoos peel from her skin and become her 'boys' she becomes mortal. She had the best body guards in the world. They need her to survive and she needs them too. They are her friends, her family, and the only demons she loves. The Iron Hunt, is full of suspense and Mystery. It was an excellent book. I was weary about it in the beginning until I chewed through the first 200 pgs. Without a thought. I knew then that this was a...

Whew...OK. I just finished "The Iron Hunt" by Marjorie M. Liu and it's very different from her 'Dirk & Steele' series. This is truly an urban fantasy, and a damn good one. The mysteries and the mystical pull you in and you can't stop reading until you find the answers to all the questions.Maxine is a Hunter. She hunts the demons that possess the bodies of humans. By day her demons are her protection--tattoos that cover her body and render her invulnerable. By night, her demons peel from her skin...

I seem to be going through quite a few books that I DNF (do not finish). I just don't have the patience or desire to continue reading something if it feels like a chore. The blurb for The Iron Hunt caught my eye and I've liked other works by Marjorie M. Liu but the writing was sort of choppy and confusing to go through.

It was the coolest story I've ever read =)) what is grant FGS :D I've to read the second one too .can't wait.

Stilted writing. Writes without all words, expects you'll understand. Frequently, subjects not in sentences, verbs missing, commas instead of conjunctions, articles optional. Strange clauses strung together as one sentence, all in one, as one. Words. Phrases. Without grammar. Just a period. Sentence structure awkward, reading exhausting, what's happening unclear. Excerpt in book summary is an example. Not too bad, but whole book like that. But worse. Very confusing beginning, can't read more, to...

This book gets major points for originality. I love the demon tattoos. I like that the romantic interest is disabled - so rare to find people of various physical abilities in books. As others have mentioned, I love the opening line: "When I was eight, my mother lost me to zombies in a one-card draw." And I love the whole scene leading up to the sword.What I couldn't really get comfortable with was the writing style. Lots of choppy sentences, which have a place in action scenes, but for the whole...

This book is a great beginning to a unique series idea. This book introduces you to all the characters and given what you need to love them, along with the fast pacing to keep you going. The book is VERY well written to make me love and hate the characters with Maxine as we go through the story. I loved how there are many different demons and creatures. By the end of the book, I felt I knew the characters well, but had many curiosities of them. My curiosities were not from a lack in the story, b...

Maxine Kiss is a Hunter with a capital H. She is the latest in a long line of Kiss women–women who wear living tattoos as armor and kill the possessed for a living. They also live alone, forming no attachments. But Maxine want more–she wants her boyfriend, Grant, and a home. In between slaying demons, she works at a homeless shelter, finding a place where she’s something more than a killer.Then, something powerful passes through the veil into this world, and Maxine is in its cross-hairs. And onl...

Quite different from what I expected based on the summary, The Iron Hunt is a story in which all kinds of secrets are being kept very close to the vest by most characters, and thus, the whole storyline and plot became a little dis-jointed to me.This and all my other reviews are originally posted on my blog (un)Conventional Bookviews

Not my fave, interesting prose, but the world didn't hook me like other books.

I did like this, just not as much as I had hoped for. I think I got a bit tired of trying to figure out all the secrets, and then all the weird jumps in time/place that were never explained. I felt like I was constantly struggling to understand a lot of what the hell was happening when scenes would jump from one place to another, or somebody would suddenly appear in a different time or place than they were before, but there wouldn't be any real explanation as to how that happened. I'm not gonna

3.5Fun read!I liked the idea of this book, and I absolutely loved her 'demons'. It's always fun to find something new because, after a while, UFs tend to repeat themselves.So, yup, fun, fast-paced plot, with a lot of potential. And I like this author, I'll keep an eye out for more of her things.Worth reading? Worth a tryMust-read? Not really, but fun nonetheless.

You may also read my review here: http://www.mybookishways.com/2011/11/...I read a Maxine Kiss short story quite a while back in an anthology and remember really enjoying it,so I wasn’t surprised at how engrossing The Iron Hunt is. Maxine is a Hunter,from a long line of Hunters,tasked with keeping demons in check. She’s settled into tenuous comfort with her boyfriend Grant,former priest and so much more,and enjoys helping out at the soup kitchen and shelter that he runs. He veneer of normality t...

This was so good!

At once a reasonably good book and somewhat disappointing. Maxine Kiss, (oh dear) is the latest in a long, lonely line of female demon hunters. Protected by a pact with a group of demons who live on her skin as tattoos, Maxine knows that one day she, like her mother, will be abandoned by the demons who protect her, in favour of her daughter. On that day she will inevitably die, suddenly and violently, when the demons she hunt get their retribution.It sounds promising, and in so far as it goes, i...