Ah Lucas

Thirty books and Lucas Davenport still is a charmer. Masked Prey is set in DC but there is just something very Minnesotan about Lucas that makes me love him.  He is now a U.S. Marshall.  Great story line, great Sandford.  Thank you and now I can't wait until October for hopefully a new Virgil Flowers!

Spring!

And how excited does that make me for a new Prey novel from John Sandford!!!  Twisted Prey was GOOOOOOOD!  I was so worried I wouldn't like it, being that it was a political-type thriller.  But this was a Prey novel, so it was beyond political and it was, indeed twisted.  REALLY GOOD 

Lucas Davenport, U.S. Marshal

Lucas is now a U.S. Marshal!  Golden Prey is the first book that details his new career.  It also introduces two other Marshals, Bob and Ray (not sure if it is Rae or Ray because I listened to the book instead of reading it).  I hope these two become regular characters!  Great, great, great!  I have to admit, the beginning totally had me fooled for awhile!  I thought maybe Lucas had hit bottom or something!  I was totally fooled!

I don't know...

I am feeling a little sad about John Sandford lately.  Extreme Prey is #26 in the Lucas Davenport series that I have loved from the start.  Okay.  Now I am feeling a little better!  I just read that there is a Virgil Flowers book coming out this year!  There wasn't one last year and that made me SUPER sad.  I thought that maybe Flowers was all done.
Sandford has made his way into the YA fiction gang with the series Singular Menace that he has written with Michelle Cook.  I couldn't get into it, but I will probably try again.  He also wrote Saturn Run last year, that came out when Virgil usually does, which is what scared me.  He wrote that with Ctein. I don't know who Ctein is, but I wonder if, in the science fiction world, Ctein is like Elvis or Dolly or Judy.  Oh wait!  Ctein is a photographer!  So I really don't want to listen to Saturn Run, I will have to read it!
Anyway...there is more political intrigue in Extreme Prey, which has been in some Lucas books and I wondered if he was taking Lucas in this direction.  I wasn't sure how I, personally, would like that, because I am not a political thriller kind of reader.  Not to say that they wouldn't be good!  It just isn't my thing.  But then, the end of Extreme has a REALLY good new direction for Lucas and I am SUPER excited about it.  Especially now that I know that Virgil is back, too.

Davenport in the Spring and Flowers in the Fall

It seems that way, anyway.  Parker, Woods and Sandford all seem to come out with a book around the same time.  Well, not Parker, but the folks who are carrying on the Parker Legend.
Gathering Prey was good, good, good.  Everything you expect in from Lucas Davenport.  Virgil even showed up for a bit.
I have seen the word Juggalo on bathroom walls over time and it was nice to find out what the word means!
Good stuff.

Lucas and the Heads

Virgil Flowers might like a band with a name like that.  I had been a little hesitant to read Field of Prey because I was worried, to be honest.  Storm Front, well, it just didn't seem like Virgil to me.  There was not much spirituality.  It was still a great, great book!  And I am still looking forward with as much expectation to the next Flowers installment, but I was worried that when I read Field of Prey, I would find it to be a little less awesome or something.  And so I was worried!  But there was no reason to worry.  This was the best Prey book yet! 
This was just awesome.  A great mystery that kept me guessing the whole time.  Loved it.  Still love Lucas. 

Lucas and Politics

Every Lucas Davenport book is a five-star for me.  That's just the way it is.  Sandford is one of my most favorites.  Silken Prey was loaded with political drama though, so with a different writer, I don't think I would have liked it.  With a different hero, no way.  But Silken Prey was awesome, political intrigue aside. 

No suprise

Just finished listening to Stolen Prey and of course, it was awesome.  Lately I have been listening to the Virgil Flowers books, so it has been awhile since I hung with Lucas.  Virgil had a bit part in this book as well.  And I love Lettie so much!  She has a big role in this one!  Well, maybe not BIG but important.  Great book.  Great series.  Great author.

Oh, Virgil

Oh Virgil
How I love thee.  Everything about thee.  I love your brains, your looks, your faith, your sense of humor.  Settling in to a Virgil Flowers' book is like going home, hanging out with an old friend.  So comfortable, yet always an enjoyable surprise.  Never predictable, but nothing off-putting.  Heat Lightning is the second Virgil Flowers book and Davenport is there, Shrake, Dell and Jenkins, too, Weather, Elle, but just on the edges, but it's great to see them again.  The end of the book leads right into of Wicked Prey.  Eric Conger does a perfect job reading the story.
And I've got another great audio lined up next with another old friend, Stone Barrington.  After that, the new Spenser.  I'll be enjoying my time in the car for hours to come.