This book is now released, so let the ACTUAL reviews begin!
Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever is the first book in a new collaboration between Larry Correia and Jason Cordova. The first three in the MHI: Memoirs series were in collaboration between Larry and John Ringo, hatched in one of those legendary John Ringo moments ("Hey, Larry, I really like your Monster Hunter universe. I wrote a sidequest trilogy in it last weekend. Interested in a collaboration?")
Fever is set in a different decade from that trilogy, and follows a new character: Chloe Mendoza, a PUFF-exempt half-nagualii monster hunter who is...older than she looks (early twenties). When we meet her, she's working with a Mossad strike team, taking down a demon summoned to take down Anwar Sadat (which helps set the timeline). Things are going badly until she lets out her nagualii side...when things go very badly, and not just for the demon. Soon Chloe's on a plane to the US for a new job; the action soon moves to 1970s Los Angeles where the fan gets pooped up in earnest. But to say too much more would be spoilery. I will say we meet some characters from the main Monster Hunter storyline, including Earl Harbinger and...someone from the MCB.
There's a good mix of Aztec, Maya and Olmec mythology, some disco-era Angeleno nostalgia for this expat who grew up in that time and place, and the usual blend of action and humor that make the MHI universe worth revisiting - whether Larry Correia is writing in his main epic, or his guests such as Ringo, Sara Hoyt, the many who contributed to Monster Hunter Files, and now Jason Cordova have added their own voices to.
A side note.
It's frustrating that Goodreads permits "reviews" of books long before their actual release, with no verification of actual contact with the books (some haven't even been written yet - just an author announcing, 'next book will be tentatively titled X' - enough for a placeholder, and thus "reviews").
Naturally, fans will say "I love author Y so book Z will surely be uhmaaaaaazing!" but there's also that brand of author or topic deemed controversial for whatever combination of reasons, some of which have nothing to do with the quality of the specific book. You know, *the thing you're supposed to be reviewing AFTER you've read the darn thing*. Larry Correia is one such author: hated by many, beloved by many, and thus the target of one star/five star "just because it's Larry, I don't need to read the book to have an opinion" (p)reviews.
I don't check reviews to see whether an author is popular, a saint, or a jerk; I check reviews to see whether a given book is worth reading. Goodreads is significantly less helpful when it enables this nonsense.