Shadow Prey

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

In Shadow Prey, the crackling sequel to Rules of Prey, Twin Cities sleuth Lucas Davenport teams up with NYPD Lieutenant Lily Rothenberg to track down an elusive killer known only as Shadow Love. Among the victims are a Minneapolis slumlord, a judge from Oklahoma City, and a Manhattan politician. The murder weapon is a Native American ceremonial knife.

©1990 John Sandford (P)2012 Recorded Books

Ok, not as good as the first but still great!

This book was not as good as the first, but was still just a great book! I did not think it seemed true murderer/serial killer fashion like I was hoping for after the first Lucas Davenport book. This book was more so a social warfare drama with some casualties on the way of finding the lead perpetrators. I want to hear more about the crazy mind of a killer like Rules of Prey did for us. I will keep reading and listening though.

Entertaining

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes - unusual storyline and it kept me interested due to the mix of characters

Who was your favorite character and why?

Lucas Davenport - non-conformist

Which character – as performed by Richard Ferrone – was your favorite?

All ok

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

no - found it mostly enjoyable

Any additional comments?

None

I'm done with the series

I was ready to settle into a new series starring Lucas Davenport. I liked Rules of Prey a lot. But this one was a put-off on several levels. I felt like the author wrote about native Americans without knowing very much about them. (Contrast this with the Tony Hillerman books) However, he included all of the "no good" stereotypes. We had drunken, drugged, miserable Indian characters in this tale, not one of whom inspired any real interest or worth for the plot. But it was the Lucas character that left me disgusted....the way he uses women with no regret. He just goes on about how he loves women, can't help it, and...implied...."take it or leave it." He's now a father...but that changes nothing. I felt sympathy for the New York lady cop who fell into step with this character and cries and begs at the end. Not fun to read. I'm not easily put off by personality flaws. So many great characters in other action novels are deeply flawed....Like Jo Nesbo's Harry....but this Lucas guy just bugs me!!!

Not his best. love all the others though

I love the story's normally since in a Southside Minneapolis guy. but this book I didn't .care much for. I absolutely love the rest I have read or listened too. this one I struggled to get through. Do yourself a favor and listen or read it for yourself. to each his or her own. I can't wait to listen to his next book I purchased already.

The Sandford books just keep getting better.

Very well written and narrated, Lucas Davenport is a chick magnet and one heck of a detective.

confusing

a bit confusing and seems to end with no conclusion the story itself has the possibility of something exciting and interesting but becomes very confusing with too many characters and too many storylines going on at the same time

LOVE this series

One of my all time favorite series. Love Lucas. Lilly enters and she is awesome

It's ok

Audio books depend on the quality of the narrator. This narrator is OK. He doesn't have great range. Men and female characters
sound the same and his accent need work.

Doesn't get darker than this

One of the reasons I like Sandford's "Prey" series is because of their darkness and the evil of their criminal characters. With that said, this second-in the-series went a bid overboard. There is even one presumed "good guy" in the bunch who turns out to be more evil (in my view) than the real bad guys. I don't remember what, if anything" happens with Lily in future Prey installments. I have read many of them but it's quite possible that I missed the one, if any, that brought back Lily. Seems very logical though that she was a recurring character. Maybe she was short lived. Sandford reveals at the end that he rewrote the first draft of this book because it was more of a social statement than a thriller. I'm glad he did. Not his best in the series, but if you like Lucas, you'll enjoy this listen. And Richard Ferrone is the perfect narrator for this series. The book gets four stars. Ferrone gets five stars.

Too much on sex scenes

There are too many and too much detail in sex scenes. Good book but feels like cheap romance novel with “throbbing members” for about 10% of book.

Would recommend.