Interesting Storyline
Customer Rating: 
I just finished Phantom Prey and probably was not my favorite of JS books but definitely interesting. I almost stopped reading after a few chapters because I really didn't care for the whole "Goth" thing and almost seemed we were getting into paranormal which I really don't like. However, I was curious about some other details of the book so kept reading and finally realized we were just dealing with the figment of someone's imagination. In other words they were a bit on the crazy side-okay perhaps more than a bit! This made more sense than the direction I thought JS was going. Nora Roberts and some others are big on the parnormal but hadn't picked that up in other JS books. However, I haven't read nearly all of his books. I'm still pretty new to them.
Mr. Sandford seems to be a talented author who knows how to weave a story, with sometimes 2 or 3 storylines going on. If I have any complaint is the amount of profanity and crudeness which is over the top sometimes. The crudeness bothers me more than the profanity at times. So after a couple JS books, I have to read something else a little lighter. I can skim over the parts I don't like because I'm interested enough to want to know where the the storyline is going.
I have not read JS's early books in the Prey series so don't know how Davenport evolved but like his character as he is now and the other characters who keep popping up in the books. Mr. Sandford's style seems to be to let the readers know the villian early on which gives a whole different concept to reading the nystery. I think perhaps a bit more suspense to the story because I keep thinking, oh no, you're telling the wrong person all that information. I guess that's the whole idea.
Phantom Prey though not my favorite so far, still had enough interesting storyline to keep it moving along.
