Title: Too violent
Product review: Perhaps I should have started the "Prey" series with the first volume, but this is where I began. And what a shock. Without going into plot specifics, as other reviewers have, I will say that the novel is one detailed gruesome scene after another. Gruesome scenes can be effective when used sparingly, for effect, but in this case the number is mind numbing. Did the writer think that violence and gore were the only hooks to keep the reader's attention? One must assume so.The plot, I might add, is improbable. In fiction, criminals are a too, too clever lot, but penitentiaries and hospitals for the criminally insane are filled with people with below average intelligence. The perp here is only silly.The other characters are a little better. The atmosphere, Minnesota in summer, could be anywhere. That's unfortunate, because a realistic locale is essential in fiction. There was nothing to mark it in place, only in time.If this is an accurate sample of the "Prey" series, I'll skip the others.
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