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Summary: ZZZZ
Review: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... strarts off promissing, then looses itself in complicated, hard to follow plot and characters. Lucas needs a change of air...
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Summary: Oh....What a fast moving book
Review: Having read the other reviews regarding this book I find that it is either a love or hate book. I happened to love it. I read it while I was layed up on vacation with a skiing injury and I was so engrossed in the book that I didn't even notice when the bag of ice melted and started to get my sweats and the couch wet. While I did not agree with some of things that Mr. Sandford had Lucas doing (even thinking about sleeping with a married women just isn't my style). I loved how the book seemed to focus on Alie'e death and not Sandy Lang's. In the end it turns out not to be the death of Alie'e that was the first murder. It just goes to show you what mixing drugs will do to people and even to the police when a famous person is involved. Like I said earlier, this book was so gripping that I can forgive Lucas for seeming like a playboy instead of a cop.
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Summary: "Prey" for this one
Review: I have read every Prey book. Unfortunately Easy Prey is a disappointment. I am committed to finish every book I start but this was hard. Lucas Davenport was out of his element. He was having sex with a bisexual woman who also had a previous relationship with her brother, lusting after an old flame from college and still bumping into Weather. Lucas is a womanizer but this was pretty far fetched. The plot was hard to follow. There should gave been much more looking into the killer's mind. That is the great part of previous Prey books. I read another review that said this one was written on autopilot (like the house payment was due and he needed some coin). I am sure his new Prey book will return him to excellence.
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Summary: Easy Prey is great suspenseful writing
Review: I'll be candid. I'm not comfortable with novels that are splattered from end to end with salty language. Typically it bespeaks an author with little else to say.Oh, sure, I know all the arguments about "the feeling of truthfulness" in this scene or that, but unfortunately this scene and that don't become the least truthful with the use of the language. This preamble is for a reason. John Sandford's "Easy Prey" is littered with more language of the gutter than any such collection of such words I have experienced since 5 years as a rather young man in the Air Force. And it works. Beautifully. And for one very simple reason. Sandford can write. Oh, boy, can he write. Taught scenes filled with real people you can care about and get involved with. Dozens of characters, more than any novel I have read in years, and yet each fills an interesting, complete, and necessary part. Pretty good trick that. A simple phrase "She's gonna make it" pulses through the latter pages, and wrings at your heart a little time each time you read it. Tension? Plot? Honestly you can't predict what's going to happen next. He doesn't dangle the bad guy in front of you and tease you with it. Nope. He takes you through a thoroughly believable process of police investigation with its ups, its downs, and its dreary monotony of nothing happening. And even while he does that he makes his protagonist, Lucas Davenport human and vulnerable, and ... well, likeable! The final sentence in the book (no cheating by peeking now) is just perfect.
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Summary: a new sandford style
Review: having read all his books, I find this one to be more of a mystery than the usual style of his phsycological thrillers. I found it to be somewhat confusing with the infusion of his characters. This will not change my opinion of his work as I think highly of his books and will look forward to the next and hope it will return to his older format.
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Summary: Well written, however not as strong as others in this series
Review: Supermodel Alie'e (which is pronounced like Alia) Maisone is found murdered at a tony, upscale party. To make matters worse, when the police are searching the house they find another woman's body stuffed into a closet. There is seemingly no connection between the women, except for the possibility of drugs. So Davenport has more suspects than he needs or wants. However some of these suspects are, in turn, murdered and the police are left scratching their heads looking for the connection. As others have noted, the plot is convoluted and you won't guess who the murderer is in this one. I have to think this is mainly because Sandford doesn't play fair with the reader and the murderer literally comes out of left field. So, to me, the ending was somewhat of a letdown. His character, Lucas Davenport, has matured. Yes, he's still involved with beautiful women but it doesn't seem as frenzied to me as it has in other novels. I consider this a plus. It makes Davenport more human. As always, Sandford's writing is very good. The dialog is always crisp, clear, and believeable. His supporting characters are always well drawn, and even though this novel has quite a few of them I found them all likeable. This book may not be as strong as others in the series but it's still a very good mystery. It's head and shoulders above much of the crap that passes for mysteries these days and I'd recommend it.
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Summary: A 3 1/2 for a different kind of Prey book
Review: This book was definitely different from the other Prey books. This book was actually a mystery. In so many of Sandford's other novel half of the story is told from the viewpoint of the killer and there is little question throughout the book of who Davenport is hunting for. There a couple scenes in the beginning told from the viewpoint of the murderer, however you are left in the dark as to the identity of the killer. Murder follows murder in this book but it makes a little more sense in the storyline than the concept that Minneapolis is running rampant with serial killers. The story is told in a somewhat disjointed way in that it switches from scene to scene often, which does make the story a little harder to follow but I don't think that really takes away from the book. The issues I do have with the story are the ending and Davenport's character. The ending is definitely abrupt and it reminds me of Patricia Cornwell's sudden ending to mysteries to come up with a solution within the last 40 pages, as if the author is tied in to a certain thickness for their novel. Now as far as Davenport, I think that far too much of the book centered around how screwed up he is in the head and what woman should he sleep with. It got old real quick and I have no sympathy for the man. So what does this all mean. It means if you are a huge Sandford fan you may be intrigued by the difference in the way the story is presented, but you will recognize it is not one of his best. I am sure you will choose to read it regardless, and it is not nearly as painstaking a chore as many other reviews have made it out to be. If you have not read Sandford before, and are choosing this book at random to read, my advice would be to give another book of his a read. I think that although Davenport is not as likeable a character that "Rules of Prey", the first book is the best one, and would also recommend "Winter Prey" and "Sudden Prey". Most people's complaint with this book seems to be the story itself, and how it moved along slow.
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Summary: Easily the worst book in the "Prey" Series.
Review: Easy Prey is a waste of time. The Prey Series always grabs my attention and I purchase a copy of the book as soon as it becomes available. Easy Prey is in a word - Terrible. I think John Sandford got tired of writing it and just wanted to get it over. The ending is a total letdown. This is the last time I will purchase another "Prey" book without doing a little checking. Fans of this series seem to be totally in sync in their comments on just how bad this book is. Hopefully Sanford will get the hint and return to his high standards. I do believe his web site was closed down after his TV Movie was panned.
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Summary: Not his best, but ya know, I liked it alot
Review: I'm a big fan of both the Davenport and Kidd books. It's been awhile since I've read a Prey novel (and I've re-read them a bunch of times) and while Easy Prey is not Mr. Sandford (Camp)'s best, it was still a very good read. Super ending too! Keep em coming.
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Summary: Why So Many People Hate This Book
Review: At the risk of seeming shallow-minded and easily amused in the eyes of many of the other reviewers, I have to say I truly enjoyed this Davenport outing. What I think is bugging so many of the other readers is that Sandford has adjusted the series to the times-quick cuts and lots of dialogue. Right, this isn't the Prey of ten years ago--but this isn't 1990 either. I also can't agree that the story is overly convoluted or confusing; Sandford set the stage for the generic if not the specific solution to the killings in the first fifty pages with the First Man, Second Man scenes. After that it was just a matter of keeping track of which one was doing what. Yeah, he could have laced in a few more hints about the second man, but that's a minor quibble. And finally I have to disagree with those who say this is a cruise control effort (look at some of the Robert B. Parker Spenser novels from ten years back if you want a true example of that).
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