The Hunter's Code

By: Yuri Vinokuroff, Oleg Sapphire, Alix Merlin Williamson - translator

Narrated by: Brian Telestai

I was a Hunter, and I honored the Code. For my services to humanity and for leading a "proper" life, I was to be rewarded. A new life after death, and a new world to give me some well-deserved rest.

But something went wrong. Once again, I must fight. The Monsters that face me here are far more terrifying than those of my past life. They are cleverer, crueler, more unpredictable. And their name is . . .

©2023 Yuri Vinokuroff and Oleg Sapphire; English translation copyright 2023 by Alix Merlin Williamson (P)2024 Tantor

OP MC with big ego

Great first book in series. I like the slayer past life and hiding his strength from his family. OP MC with big ego and interesting side stories (quests?) Seems like there are unresolved plots but lots of action in between the plots. Introduction of Carmel and snoop are nice support characters

Good Start

Not much to say overall, it was a good book. It was a good start to series, and the writing was quite good. I do find the ending a bit of a letdown. I kind of dislike stories that feel they have to end on a cliffhanger in order to draw you into the next book . 

The hunters code is an amazing opening start to a series

Very entertaining, very funny great character development funny as heck and enough action to keep you on the edge of your seat

Bruce Campbell, Monster Hunter

I nearly gave up on this book early on, due to the fact that the MC is an unmitigated @ss; but then i realized i was reading it wrong. ;)

He was raised, in this life, as the heir to an aristocratic family; but he tells the reader that couldn't overcome the speech and mannerisms of his previous rough-and-tumble lifestyle; He did however, take to heart all the lectures about how much better he is than everyone else, including "commoners", "peasants" and "servants" at one point he is rude to a waitress and says to himself something like "while i don't like talking to the servant class like that, as soon as you're nice to them, they take advantage of you." We're not told how old he was in his first life, other than being "much, much older" than his current 18 years; but his thoughts and actions are incredibly immature, much closer to that of an 18 year old brat than a theoretically battle-hardened veteran.

In summary, his is incredibly immature, selfish, arrogant, overbearing, horribly sexist, he is crude, a bully and a thief. As i said, a complete @ss.

It was at some point after his first spar with Helga, however, that i realized i had entirely misunderstood this book. This isn't an action/adventure with a complex MC, This is a campy B-Movie, with bad acting, bad costumes, and ...okay, the plot isn't terrible, if a bit convoluted.

With this mindset, i am now only disappointed that Xander has not - yet - grabbed Helga and demanded that she "Gimme Some Sugar, Baby"

Okay book

It was an okay book but I just can't find a way to like the main character. He's a heartless thief, womanizer, and pervert.