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Summary: The Night Screw
Review: Sandford's "Prey" series are all good to great thrillers. "The Night Crew" is garbage. He's written this totally politically correct novel(i.e. a super strong woman, weak guy as a love interest) hoping to interest a Hollywood leading lady into pushing the book into a script and a movie.(My opinion, of course). The book is implausable to the max. Enjoy the others in the "Prey" series, but skip this one.
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Summary: I liked it!
Review: Like other reviewers, I am a big fan of the Prey Series. And like other reviewers, I found the style of Night Crew substantially different from that of the Preys.But I liked it. With respect to the style -- there are two really obvious differences. One is the location, Los Angeles, as opposed to Minneapolis-St Paul, the center of the Prey universe. This is perhaps the biggest weakness of the book. The reader doesn't get a real feel for the locale, or the feeling Sandford spent much time there. LA was just a name, with its associated collection of street names, but it could have been almost anywhere else, for all I knew. I had no sense of the atmosphere that comes out in Michael Connelly's work. The other obvious difference is the main character is female. I find it fascinating when an author writes on a protagonist of the opposite gender. In this case, Sandford is more successful, as far as I can tell as a male. I never had the feeling that the character was straying into a male perspective. Other aspects of the book were also good. Unlike most of the Prey material, this book was a bit more mystery, a bit less thriller. In mysteries, the question is what did happen, while in thrillers, the question is only what will happen. And Sandford plays fair. He provides enough clues for educated conjecture without making it easy on the reader to guess the answer. I also liked the characters. Probing characters isn't Sandford's strong point in any of his work. But I found the ones in this book likeable and, unlike other reviewers, I found them believable. So I recommend Night Crew. It was a lot of fun to read, and I didn't feel at all cheated at the end. It isn't Lucas Davenport, but it doesn't need to be.
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Summary: How about a series with these characters?
Review: I enjoy John Sanford, I must admit, but sometimes I don't like it when authors waste there time writing books about anyone but the characters I am interested in. I love Lucas Davenport and all his cohorts and wanted to be disappointed in this book. I wasn't at all. In fact, when this book was over I was hoping he could manage a second series featuring these characters. It was an exciting and fun read with an unusual job bringing the characters into interesting situations. I highly recommend this book and I also recommend that Mr. Sanford write a sequel!
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Summary: Go Read Prey!
Review: The Night Crew is so different from Sandford's more famous "Prey" books. When I say "different", I mostly mean "worse." Not only is it an arduous read, but character development (which Sandford excels at with Lucas "Prey Series" Davenport) is weak and inconsistent. The red herrings are painfully obvious and the cop turned lawyer who still gets incredible access to crime scenes is ridiculous. I really don't understand what happened in The Night Crew as Sandford's regular series is consistently excellent.
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Summary: Did John Sandford Really Write This?
Review: After reading this , I'm convinced some guy who has it in for the real John Sandford somehow got this book published under his name. It seems almost impossible that the same author who turns out the great "Prey" series could also be responsible for this. Weak , unexplored characters, a uninvolving plot and a "who cares?" resolution makes this the worst book I've read in awhile. I can understand how an author can get sick of writing the same characters over and over and want to try something new, but this entry was just a wasted effort. I don't mean to sound so brutal, but I can't fathom how someone can write such consistently excellent books like the "Prey " novels and then turn around and write something so terrible.
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Summary: An exciting thriller
Review: I decided to review this because of so many pans. While I enjoy the Prey series, I found this as good as many of those. I think series often run out of steam and its good for the author to work with new characters. I found the heroine to be a strong and interesting character and the book an exciting read. My only complaint is that the ending wasn't as strong as I hoped. Other personal favorites are Connelly, Hiaasen, and Raymond Chandler for American. LeCarre, Rendell, and Charles Todd for the Brits.
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Summary: Too Many Loose Ends....
Review: This is totally a mediocre stuff from John Sandford...the story begins with a suicide jump and the video crew picturising it,this is followed by some more killings,some more false leads and what not.If John sandford thinks that he has kept the readers on the edge of their seats through out the book then he is totally wrong.When you come to the ending and find out who the killer is then you realise that almost three-fourths of the book does not lead you anywhere.There are so many loose ends and i could not find any connection between the suicide jump and the killer.Did the killer murder him or did he commit suicide..well who cares.I think John sandford should stick to Lucas Davenport character and his prey series ....avoid this book at any cost.
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Summary: Couldn't wait to put it down...
Review: ...literally. This is one of three books in my entire life that I have just given up on. I got about halfway through and still found no likable characters or anything holding my interest, so I quit reading. I've always enjoyed the Prey series, and was actually looking forward to reading this because I wanted to see how John Sandford would do without Lucas Davenport to fall back on. Now I know. I could not have been more disappointed.
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Summary: Unbelievable! ... and I mean that literally
Review: I too am a fan of "The Prey Series" and can't believe this book is by the same author. There were so many things that were unbelievable and stupid in this book that you will just start shaking your head. I would have to say at the top of my list is that the main character lets a man she has met once move in with her to protect her... come on. I'll let you guess what happens next. The climax was anticlimactic as a three year old child could see through the so called "trap" the villian fell into. If you want true enjoyment in a novel BAINE KERR'S HARMFUL INTENT is the best courtroom thriller I've ever read, buy that not this garbage.
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Summary: not worth the time
Review: An interesting start, but fades quickly. Plot is very disjointed and several characters are never developed or developed very poorly. I read the entire "Prey" series before this book, and highly recommend those stories.
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