Wine, Women, & Song
Bubba the Monster Hunter Seasons • Book 3
Why You'll Love This
Monster hunting, voodoo priests, and guitar solos walk into a novella collection — and somehow it all works.
- Great if you want: Southern-fried urban fantasy with genuine humor and heart
- The experience: fast, fun, and episodic — four punchy stories, zero slow stretches
- The writing: Hartness leans hard into voice — drawling, self-aware, and gleefully absurd
- Skip if: you prefer serious, grounded fantasy over campy monster-of-the-week fun
About This Book
Bubba the Monster Hunter has always been more Southern Gothic than polished urban fantasy—and that's exactly the point. In this third collection, Bubba and his crew tear through four novellas packed with vampires in New Orleans, museum monsters, Midsummer mayhem, and an Odyssey-riffing road trip that somehow involves guitar solos and dimension-hopping. The stakes are real enough to matter, but the heart of the book is the found-family loyalty holding these misfit monster hunters together when things get genuinely dangerous. It's the kind of series where you laugh out loud and then realize, quietly, that you actually care what happens to these people.
What makes Wine, Women, & Song work as a reading experience is John G. Hartness's voice—sharp, self-aware, and relentlessly funny without undercutting the tension. The novella format suits him perfectly: each story hits fast, lands its emotional beat, and gets out clean. Hartness writes Southern vernacular with real affection rather than caricature, and the cultural touchstones he layers in reward attentive readers without slowing the pace. If you've been in Bubba's corner since the beginning, this is the season where the world feels genuinely lived-in.
