Gathering Prey

Another freaking winner by John Sandford. I wait in anticipation hoping that when Letty finishes college and becomes whatever career badass she's going to be Sandford will give her her own series. Please, please give Letty her own series.

Anyway, lots of crazies here in Gathering Prey and Lucas has kind of gone off the rails. It started with the events in Field of Prey and we've seen it before throughout the series. Lucas needs something.....but he's not sure what yet. All he knows that what he has now isn't working. So he puts everything into finding these killers. But about 98% is born from a kind of stupid thing Letty does that seemed slightly out of character, (but then again not) that sends Lucas into a protective father rage. It's hard to talk about without giving too much away.

The humor is always there, the reality of these people. The instances that make them seem like real people that you could encounter or know in this life. After a bad experience Lucas tells Letty he's going to call Weather. Letty warns, ‘She's gonna scream,' to which Lucas replies, ‘Yeah, well - it's her turn.' And later when Lucas is vaguely outlining his plans to Weather she says to him, ‘All right, if you say so. I reserve the right to smirk when it all goes wrong.'

Sandford's writing is just so perfect. And the problem with that is for awhile after I've finished a Prey or Virgil Flowers novel everything else I pick up to read just kind of sucks. So I have to take a break from reading for a bit. I've said I was thinking of restarting the series and I wonder if now is a good time to start.