A review by arthur_pendrgn
Chosen Prey by John Sandford

3.0

 
 I'm glad Weather and Lucas are back together finally. Beauty taming the Beast is a cliche as old as time, but Lucas does indeed settle down under her influence*, which makes him more palatable in the later books (Virgil Flowers taking up the mantle of wild playboy with less violence).

The body count is pretty low in this book once the crime has been discovered. I prefer that to what happened in Easy Prey.

Ellen was underutilized as was Mrs. Qatar. Why didn't Lucas investigate the son she had mentioned?

*Although perhaps he settles down and that's why they marry. Perhaps the events of Sudden Prey taught him that he makes mistakes, that actions have consequences that directly affect him, that hellbent-for-leather isn't always the best choice. His moral indecisiveness/dilemma at the end is new for him. Previously he would have made a decision according to his own idea of "justice;" now he was concerned about legal justice as well. Even the question of what to do with the computer or whether they had arrested Qatar too early shows a burgeoning awareness of considerations beyond his typical alpha male (or sociopathic) narrow-mindedness.