It was quite enjoyable

I enjoyed the is story. I enjoyed the end of it. I work in a kitchen and It is a great story that helps pass the time in dish! Would recommend! Fast paced and intense.

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decent

decent , no Michael connelly or robert Crais but decent none the less. I don't regret listening to it

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Story

The story is ok. But the narrator is really not good at all. A different narrator might had some excitement to the story. Not getting the 3 rd one because of the narration

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Borderline Pornographic

I don't mean this book is full of explicit sex (although there is some). I mean that if 'Shadow Prey' were subjected to a TV/Film/Video Game rating system, it would be 'X-rated'. I'm just fine with viscerally-affecting "gut-punch" descriptions & subject matter (in fact, I quite enjoy True-Crime books that include jawdropping psychopathology and Crime-Thrillers with graphic autopsy findings), but John Sandford crosses the line between "uncomfortable" and "disturbing".
Every character in this book (including Detective Lucas Davenport - his 'Dirty Harry' archetype protagonist) is unethical, duplicitous, mean, and violent. Additionally, as in the first book in the series, readers are taken on the villain's journey into homicidal depravity - but his victims are as unlikable/evil as he is in this one. I found myself not caring about anyone in this book.. to the point that there's a startling lack of tension.
Admittedly, the book is well-written, the dialogue is quite believable, the plot is engrossing, and the pacing is gripping - but regardless, the graphic aspects of the book are unrelenting. Sandford doesn't let up on his dark-dark-dark theme at any point.

Richard Ferrone contributes to the sensation of an overdone atmosphere with a reading that's remarkably faithful to what he's given (an emotive performance - including some palpably angry voice-acting - creates a tone that matches Sandford's text perfectly). This is one of those odd occasions where excellent reading actually makes a poor script *worse*. He draws attention to it.
The biggest drawback to Ferrone's narration is awful timing (his reading is best consumed at 1.20X) - it's otherwise great.

For me, the excessively graphic descriptions and action took me out of the illusion.. and I'm not convinced Sandford can get out of the darker corners of his imaginative mind (I won't be reading any more 'Prey' novels).
Still, you aren't crazy to spend a Credit on this well-performed 6.5/10 star audiobook - in the end, it provides a distracting, thought-provoking, action-packed procedural about a frightening Native American Revenge Killer/Zealot.

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Slow burn? Social Commentary? Good, but not great.

A steady pace and an intriguing plot. The word "Indian" is used throughout the novel to reflect the time period in which the story takes place. While it is not appropriate today and the terminology is understandably offensive to the Indigenous community, it accurately depicts the public and government attitudes during the story's timeline.

Shadow Prey conveys the plight of the Indigenous community, their mistreatment at the hands of the government, and the public's blind eye. The actions of the "hunters" on both sides of the law are dubious, ambiguous, and a textbook case of ends justifying means.

The reader/listener is confronted with a moral dilemma and would be wise to maintain their objectivity as the story progresses.

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Can’t write Indians

Was a fan of the first book but listening to this one as an Indian myself pissed me off. Even murderers as suspects get questioned at home before cops can take them in but Lucas Davenport would go to “Friends” places and pull hair to question people in their own homes and punch old women for answers, frame a native kid with crack to get info from his father in jail? Never asked why they were doing what they were doing. So bad. Very disgusted.

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dull

the writer can't write women. the main character is a cocky man child who isn't much better then the killers he is trying to catch. it has its moments and the story line had potential but falls flat with the bad characters.

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