Hey, I can’t help it if Sanford chose to put this scene on the first page of his new book.ĭespite the teen sexting, I feel compelled to post this excerpt to demonstrate really bad writing, and most of that has nothing to do with the sexting (my comments are in parenthesis):Īudrey Coil and Blake Winston had been sexting each other for weeks. I have to warn you that this excerpt from Masked Prey might be seen as perverted. I don’t mind tough talk in fictional characters, but somebody should talk like a normal person. Plus, all of Sandford’s characters talk like tough guys, even the women.

I quit reading after Lettuce Prey because I couldn’t stomach a serial killer who was targeting religious vegetarians. I think Masked Prey is his 30th Prey book. I thought the old Prey series got tired in the late 1990s, but people keep buying his books, so he keeps writing them. I haven’t been a fan of John Sanford’s books for a while. He probably could have made the characters a little older… just because. I’m not saying he shouldn’t be allowed to do it. John Sanford is an old guy at least he’s older than I am, and he probably shouldn’t be writing a scene with teenagers sexting each other. It kind of makes the author, not the characters, come across as a pervert. It might not be the best way to start a book. Masked Prey by John Sandford starts off with two teens sexting each other.

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