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Summary: The WORST in the series....
Review: ...but not a bad book overall. It's just a little weak follow-up to "Rules" and I was left a little disappointed. Luckily, Sanford followed it up with the one-two punch of "Eyes of Prey" and "Silent Prey".
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Summary: Maybe it was the abridgement of the book on tape format...
Review: ...I found the over-arching plot to be a stretch. Two Indian medicine men (two cousins called "the Crows") inspire a murder spree of people who have wronged Native Americans across the country in an attempt to draw out the Attorney General, a truly despicable man, so that they can kill him. I think it would have been much more believable if Sandford had made it a more Minneapolis-based character, such as the head of the Minnesota State Police.
That being said, the gunfight scenes were well-done, especially the one in the hotel room in the dark.
The reading was done by Ken Howard (the coach on CBS's "White Shadow") and he did a good job with voice characterizations and reading with the proper drama. However, at times the editing was a little weak - I sometimes had to turn my stereo up and down to make up for louder and quieter parts of the tape.
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Summary: Another Good Prey Novel
Review: Although not usually a fan of detective series, I very much looked forward to seeing the return of Lucas Davenport in this second installment of the prey series. While not as strong as the first, Rules of Prey, Shadow Prey is an amusing thriller. The plot, as always, is well conceived and the action is great. What I believe is most unique about these novels is the degree to which we're given insight into the main character's life. The background story is almost as important and interesting as the main case Davenport's working on. Its interesting to see how this character evolves.Overall, Shadow Prey is great fun.
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Summary: Lucas Davenport
Review: Davenport does it his way, break the law to enforce the law. This character does not have any qualities that I can admire or relate to. I actually was rooting for the bad guys. For a series this is my least favorite since I'm unable to like Lucas Davenport.
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Summary: Your pain is felt Shadow
Review: Great plot. Kudos to John Sanford for writing about racial problems in America and how a minority often views them. I was more impressed w/the author and his narrative from the Native American viewpoint, than I was the book itself. My second prey book, must read in order
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Summary: Save Your Money!!!!!
Review: I am a big fan of this author, however, I have to tell it like it is. This book is absolutely "Awful". It dragged and dragged. There were too many characters and the plot was senseless. The only redeeming factor in the story is the relationship between Lucas & Lily. Save your money, this one was a loser!
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Summary: Homicidal Loves
Review: I enjoyed this book more than the others in the Prey series because I am a Native American, and my last name is Love. The characters may have been homicidal, but they also had pride and character. Lucas Davenport is very intense and a bit homicidal himself. Excellent thriller series, Sandford never weakens, his stories are always strong, intense and complete
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Summary: Playing in the Shadows, Davenport just gets better
Review: I just had to write when I read the other reviews because I was surprised that they were so negative. I loved this book. It is well writen, with some fine observations. And the plot was unusual - not the 'standard' serial killers who were abused by their moms... but people who had a cause and then took it too far, especially when they conscripted Shadow Love, who had no cause. It was quite a complex book in that the good guys acted questionably and the villans had good motives. That's why I liked it, it was full of shadows, full of shades of grey. Lucas Davenport is a great fiction character - complex, passionate, driven, devious, and great in bed - who could ask for more!
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Summary: Need Shadow Prey on UNABRIDGED audiocassette
Review: I love this book. It's eerie and creepy; about a culture I know very little about. I recommend it to my Native American students.
Mr. Sandford: Please command your publisher to record this book on UNABRIDGED audiocassette. Please. I'm begging. Please
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Summary: The flaws in the series start to show
Review: I read 3 books in this series before I decided to start from the beginning. As with Rules of Prey, Shadow Prey is fun to read. Sandford leads Lucas and friends on a believable pursuit of the killers. Nothing comes easy as Lucas tries to get to the bottom of a group of Indians who are killing people who have harmed Indians in the past.
After reading five or six novels in the series, I decided to voice my complaints in this review. I still plan on reading the entire series, but some things have got on my nerves. First, Sandford reveals Lucas' age to be 41 (probably real close to Sandford's age at the time.) Forty one is fine, but in current novels that makes Lucas in his late 50s. If this series is going to continue, Lucas needs to stay young.
I've accepted the fact that Lucas has a foul mouth, dropping constant f-bombs. But does every single cop, or person for that matter talk that way. In Sandford's books, every single character, except for the nun, cusses like a sailor. And Lucas and Jennifer even cussed around their baby. Obviously everyone doesn't talk like this, and even people who cuss all the time don't want their kids to talk that way.
Third, Lucas says he just "loves women" and therefore can't keep his hands off them. He can't resist cheating on the mother of his child with a married woman NYC cop Lily Rothenberg and then going right back to the mother of his child and sleeping with her. Lily shows some guilt in having an affair yet goes out of her way to cheat on her husband. What a woman! Actually, all of this womanizing by Lucas doesn't bother me too much, except for the fact that we don't know why he does it. Why does this 41 year old man still think he's a 25 year old batchelor sleeping with every woman he can?
Finally, all the cops seem the same and run together. They all talk alike and do the same things, and there isn't any characterization to set them apart.
On this book specific, Sandford draws from his knowledge of Indian culture to write some Indians as bad guys. Probably the weakest bad guys of the series so far. Yet their final motive is just, and none of the cops actually mention that the Indians' ultimate goal was more than just terror.
I recommend this book and the entire series. But be prepared for a lot of bad language and loose morals.
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