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Summary: Davenport - could that be a fold-out sofa bed?
Review: When John Sandford published 'Certain Prey,' I thought there might have been some hope for the 'Prey' franchise. The previous couple of 'Prey' books were disappointing, particularly 'Secret Prey,' in which a competent female detective becomes a giggling sex toy for hero Lucas Davenport amid a very mediocre and ultimately implausible murder caper. But Sandford stumbles again with 'Easy Prey,' which spends too much time regaling us with details of Davenport's sex life and not enough time constructing a crime worth caring about. This effort even creates a character and subplot that apparently has no other purpose in the book than to show us that there's yet another woman who dreams of dropping her drawers for Davenport. And if I read one more obnoxious reference to Lucas and his Porsche, I'm really going to pull someone's hair out. With regard to the crime, the writer delivers 400 pages of cartoonish characters and a climax that's limp and disappointing. Early on, he gives us a little narrative from the killer's viewpoint, a common feature in earlier 'Prey' books, but quickly abandons it, leaving us to wonder whether it was intended to stay in the book at all. Instead, we get some kind of convoluted explanation as to why the crime was committed, so over-wrought and cumbersome that I don't even care that I can't remember it anymore. The book was a page-turner all right; I wanted to keep turning the pages so I could finally get through this mess and move onto something more worthwhile. Still, I'll probably read the next 'Prey' book, at least to see whether Sandford can turn this franchise around -- but it will be against my better judgment.
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Summary: NOT HIS BEST EFFORT
Review: As a fan of all the "PREY" novels, I found "EASY PREY" to be Sandford's worst. I thought there were too many characters & the plot was somewhat confusing. Did this novel go thru the editing process?
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Summary: BORING
Review: I am trying to finish this book, hoping that something exciting will happen. It is as bad as "Night Crew"
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Summary: Not his best
Review: I was so excited to see the latest installment of Lucas Davenport's adventures. But I was slightly disappointed. Sanford did a pretty amazing job with keeping the murderer underwraps by throwing many curveballs at the reader. It was until the last chapter or two that the murderer is finally revealed. However, I didn't find the characters as gripping as he has written some before. I thought this book would carry on the same tone and pace of his previous book, Certain Prey, but that was not the case. I was also slightly put off by how the author concludes the book with Lucas caught among 3 women in his life. It seemed like the middle aged detective was going through a mid-life crisis with settling down with a woman. Is Lucas going to be a family man soon? I guess that could be the next stage of development a character will go through. But I liked the raging and passionate Detective about his cases, not this "I'm torn between these 3 women," guy.
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Summary: Enjoyable read
Review: Lucas Davenport is back in good form. This was an enjoyable novel and a fast read. A little hard to get caught-up and hooked at first, but soon it develops into a fast-paced book.Look forward to more of his novels with this interesting character, Davenport.
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Summary: Certainly No Easy Murder Investigation
Review: Starting with the puzzle of the death of a famous model and a lesser known woman, author John Sanford takes the reader on a journey of mounting intrigue and suspense. Minneapolis Police Department's Deputy Chief, Lucas Davenport is charged with the case and he certainly is given no easy task. Events continue throughout the story that make any simple solution to the murders seem impossible. Davenport must wade through the events of a party at which the murders took place only to be met with more murder in the person of the last photographer to photograph the dead model. The killings don't stop there. More people meet their death and Davenport appears to be running out of suspects. Easy Prey is a wonderfully developed mystery that keeps one fairly glued to a chair in search of new developments. Ultimately, and at complete surprise, all is apparent. A thoroughly enjoyable addition to John Sanford's, Lucas Davenport mysteries.
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Summary: A different John Sandford
Review: While I have enjoyed all of the Prey books,I sometimes find the mood of them a bit blue and depressing. Sandford seemed to be in a playful mood in this book -something unusual for him. Both my spouse and myself noticed a lighter, happier mood in this volume where Davenport seems to be at a crucial turning point in his life. The story is actually only a background for a kind of midlife crises for our hero -which woman? Which job? What to do with life? Instead of getting all dark and broody about it, thought, he seems to enjoy just riding the events that unfurl. I don't think I'd want a steady diet of this -anymore than I'd enjoy a steady diet of doom and gloom -but it was a pleasant change -and a good tale.
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Summary: A Struggle to Read
Review: Sandford has always been my favorite--until now. This book was really a disappointment. I didn't even like Lucas in this one. Did a computer write it?
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Summary: Could have been better
Review: I thought it wasn't one of his best, it wasn't a super thriller like some of his other prey books, but it was vintage Davenport.
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Summary: Rough language and too much sex
Review: I have read every Prey novel to date. I liked the inricate plotting, dead ends and false leads. I thought Sanford was very sophisticated in what he did with regard to the bad guys. However, I really could do without the graphic sex and copious uses of the F*** word. I know Mr. Sanford has said in interviews that he toned down Lucas Davenport after the original Prey novel, but the wild man still has to be there somewhere! Go back to women with power drills and silenced .22's.
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