{"id":325,"date":"2008-08-15T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=325"},"modified":"2008-08-14T15:53:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T20:53:01","slug":"looking-for-a-final-summer-read-try-phantom-prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/325","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a final summer read? Try <em>Phantom Prey<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/phantomprey.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Phantom Prey\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Phantom Prey<\/strong><br \/>\nby John Sandford<br \/>\nMCN San<br \/>\n<strong>McNaughton Collection<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n<p>This just might be my last review for \u201csummer reading,\u201d since classes start very soon (I refuse to think in more specific numbers). I\u2019m back to series reading again, but this time it\u2019s a series by a male author. I\u2019ve been reading John Sandford\u2019s \u201cPrey\u201d series for years, and have been anxiously waiting to read this latest one. When I finally got the chance, I found it to be\u2026not bad.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Davenport is the star of the series, which is set in Minneapolis. He started out way back in the beginning as dark and dangerous\u2014he followed his own path, solved crimes, had lots of love affairs. Over the years he\u2019s matured and changed and is now a family man. Frankly, I preferred him the way he used to be, but oh, well.<\/p>\n<p>This latest book has Davenport looking for a killer (or killers, we don\u2019t know) who is viciously stabbing people involved in the Minneapolis Goth community. All seem connected in some way to the disappearance of Frances Austin, the crime Davenport is originally recruited to solve.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason I found this book only \u201cnot bad\u201d is because the author reveals the killer\/killers (to the reader, not the police) about halfway through the book, and for some reason that made the rest of the book anti-climactic. <\/p>\n<p>Like the J. D. Robb \u201cDeath\u201d series I blogged about a few weeks ago (see our <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/category\/whatcha-reading\/summer-reading\">blog archives<\/a>), I find the books in the \u201cPrey\u201d series hard to keep straight due to very similar titles (<em>Invisible Prey<\/em>, <em>Broken Prey<\/em>, all the way back to the first book, <em>Rules of Prey<\/em>). Most of them can be read out of order, but there are a few titles with recurring criminals. The complete list of books and their synopses can be found on the author\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnsandford.org\/directory.html\">web site<\/a>. The University Library has five of the series titles in our Main Collection and two more\u2014including this one\u2014in the McNaughton Collection. All seven can be found using the library\u2019s online catalog, or by asking a reference librarian.<\/p>\n<p>Give this series a try. Lots of action, great characters, all set in locales you may have visited (or even lived in) yourself. Enjoy the rest of your summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phantom Prey by John Sandford MCN San McNaughton Collection, 2nd floor This just might be my last review for \u201csummer reading,\u201d since classes start very soon (I refuse to think in more specific numbers). I\u2019m back to series reading again, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/325\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[919],"tags":[220,939,1060,940,167192],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-reading","tag-fun-stuff","tag-leisure","tag-murder","tag-mysteries","tag-summer-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}