maitland 's review for:

Rules of Prey by John Sandford
2.0

I wanted to like this book more than I did. It was OK. I found the main protagonist a little bit too perfect at first. I am really not a fan of the "cop who is also a rich guy in his spare time" trope. Like with the Pendergast series. Or where the cop simply knows what to do at all times which is how I felt the book started out. However, I also feel towards the later quarter of the book this improved and the protagonist seemed much more fallible.

I also found the main love interest very unlikeable and the main protagonist's reactions to her extremely hard to believe. If I read more of the series I hope she is somehow written out.

Again, I wanted to like this book, which was recommended to me by a friend, much more than I did. But in the end, I was just not very invested in the characters and it's one of the few books I would have been OK with pretty much any character dying in.