{"id":5946,"date":"2018-09-05T14:40:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T18:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=5946"},"modified":"2018-09-05T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T18:44:31","slug":"book-review-predators-by-michaelbrent-collings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-predators-by-michaelbrent-collings\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Predators: The Hunt Begins by Michaelbrent Collings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Predators-Michaelbrent-Collings-ebook\/dp\/B07GZZZ9MT\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1536172095&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=predators+michaelbrent+collings&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=monstlibra0f1-20&amp;linkId=2a81f00313b6d8fb578c8d8fa786b3fa&amp;language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B07GZZZ9MT&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=monstlibra0f1-20&amp;language=en_US\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=monstlibra0f1-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li3&amp;o=1&amp;a=B07GZZZ9MT\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Predators: The Hunt Begins<\/em> by Michaelbrent Collings<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Digital Services<\/p>\n<p>ASIN: B07GZZZ9MT<\/p>\n<p>Available: Kindle edition<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Predators: The Hunt Begins<\/em> by Michaelbrent Collings is a horrific novel.\u00a0 Horrific in a good sense.\u00a0\u00a0 It is scary, gory and suspenseful, and will keep you reading late into the night.\u00a0 Reviews of his previous novels include comparison to Stephen King\u2019s novels because of similar qualities.\u00a0 While reading <em>Predators<\/em> I thought of the Swedish filmmaker, Ingmar Bergman\u2019s, classic 1957 movie, <em>The Seventh Seal<\/em>.\u00a0 In that film a disillusioned knight and his squire return from the Crusades to Denmark that has been decimated by the Black Death.\u00a0 The knight confronts the personification of Death, who collects the souls of characters that the knight meets on his journey home.\u00a0 Some are innocents, and some have a sordid past.\u00a0 One by one they perish.<\/p>\n<p>Collings describes a group of American tourists on a wildlife safari, stranded in the wild in a part of Africa ravaged by drought.\u00a0 The group is a conglomeration of despicable, pitiful, admirable and innocent characters.\u00a0 In the story, there are predators and there are prey.\u00a0 The apex predators are the hyenas, and the tourists are their prey.\u00a0 However, as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that some of the humans have been predators or prey in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The tourists and their guides are tracked, and some of them killed, by a hungry pack of hyenas led by a vicious, cunning queen.\u00a0 The queen must lead the pack to food and dominate her rivals, or be killed herself.\u00a0 The pack doesn\u2019t care who is good or bad.\u00a0 But does the author take into account the victims\u2019 character and past in deciding who dies and how they die?<\/p>\n<p>Collings writing is direct, powerful and vivid.\u00a0 How does it feel to be disemboweled by the queen and have your intestine, liver and heart eaten while you are still alive?\u00a0 Stephen King fans will enjoy this novel. Highly recommended<\/p>\n<p>Contains: Mild profanity, sexual situations, gore.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Robert D. 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