Spoilers Prey: Book 2: The Jackal's Trick by John Jackson Miller Review Thread

Just ordered mine, hopefully here before the weekend. Looking forward to it, I rather enjoyed the first part.

 

Mine has not shipped.

 

Just picked up my copy yesterday. I'm not a fan of the Satanic-looking figure on the cover, but I'm enjoying the story in book 1 so far.

 

Another good book - although I don't know if I enjoyed it as much as Hell's Heart - and I definitely plan on rereading the entire thing as a trilogy after the last book comes out next month. Again, I kinda wish some other characters (I'm looking for President zh'Tarash and her staff, the I.K.S. Gorkon and its crew, maybe another Starfleet vessel) would make an appearance, but what we did see from the Enterprise and Titan were pretty cool. Lt. Kyzak is an interesting character, and I think Titan's new protocol officer, Lt. Xaatix, will be a welcome addition to the crew.

 

I just foy at my found a copy at my local chapters and plan on starting it tomorrow

 

I suddenly had the urge to rewatch The Magicks of Megas-Tu (animated) while reading this, just in case...

 

Finally got mine. Hope to start it this weekend

 

I got my book the other day. I'm looking forward to getting time to read the first 2 books soon.

 

Ok, got to a certain point in the book, and I'm gonna call it, just in case.....

Spoiler: Calling it!!!!!

The Nausican that's studying the Houdini is Ardra.

 

Spoiler

Yes she didn't seem to mind her planet got destroyed....

 

Again a good read, fast paced. Hard to put down. Did not see this ending coming in any way. Very curious about the third and last installement now.

 

I enjoyed it, but it seemed the twist at the end existed only to justify a third book.

 

This one lead to some great conversations on Literary Treks!

 

Finally got it started. So far more of the same. Have to wait a while before listening to the podcast

 

Just finished it. I just found bit tedious between the machinations and several POVs.

 

I just finished this a few minutes ago, and I enjoyed it just as much as Hell's Heart.
Cross is a great villain, and I really enjoyed how much this one focused on him.
I was a little annoyed that Worf ended up getting himself captured again, but that whole storyline ended up being good enough that I didn't mind it once things got going.
The Excelsior flashback was a fun little bit that I didn't expect.
Kyzak is quickly becoming one of my favorite Titan characters. The idea of a 24th Century Cowboy sounds a bit goofy at first, but the authors have done a great job. Xaatix and Aggadak were good too, and I hope we see more of them in The Hall of Heroes.
The big twist with Shift was a huge shock, I was reading back in the breakroom at work, and it was really hard not to yell "Oh, shit" out loud when she took off her helmet.
Even after reading to whole book, I'm still not sure what the cover is supposed to represent. I'm assuming the demonic looking guy is meant to represent Cross? Or Korgh?
I was a bit surprised at Cross and the majority of the Unsung being killed off in this book. The set ups for Bk3 were very interesting, and I'm very anxious to see where The Hall of Heroes takes things from here. I do plan on reading a couple comics before I start it, but those shouldn't take long.

 

Cross seems like the sort of character Bruce Campbell would play.

 

I reread this book a few weeks ago and thought the book was really well written and I enjoyed reading this trilogy again.

 

I was originally picturing him as some quite a bit younger, like 20s or 30s, but I just double checked the year for Devil's Due and that was 19 years before Prey, so I he would actually have to be quite a bit older than that. In that case, Bruce Campbell could definitely work for me. Now I'm almost finding myself wanting to reread the first two with him in mind.