This review was first posted on Ruby's Reads. 
 Narrator Review: When I was first listening to The Prey, I had a hard time getting used to Sean Runnette. His voice is a little bit too mature for a seventeen year old boy. However, by the end of the first book, I'd grown to appreciate Runnette's nuanced narrative style. He does a fantastic job with Gene and I even appreciated the way he embodied Sissy. Without a doubt, I'll be listening to the rest of the books in this series, rather than reading them myself. 
 Book Review: My tolerance level for gore is only slightly higher than my tolerance level for white chocolate (IT'S NOT CHOCOLATE!). When my roommate watches The Walking Dead, I have to go to my room, close the door, put a pillow over my head and sing "LALALALA!" at the top of my lungs so I don't accidentally hear any zombie noises. But this book? Oh, this book? I loved it, gooey, cheesey, melting flesh and all. Okay, I gagged at those parts, but I kept listening. 
 Before I continue with my review, let me recap a little. At the end of The Hunt, Gene was outed as a human. It also turned out that his crush, Ashley June, was human. She sacrificed herself so Gene could get away. Well, and come back to save her later, of course. (If you get the sense that I'm not an Ashley June fan, you're right.) Unable to save her, and needing to get away from the ravenous vampire-creatures, Gene takes off on a river voyage with the hepers beneath the dome, including Ben, Sissy and Epap. 
 The Prey picks up so exactly where The Hunt left off that my head was spinning, trying to remember all the details of the last book. I know that I've complained about authors recapping in series books, but a little easing back into the world is, I think, necessary. No matter. I was soon swept up in the action and I never looked back. Andrew Fukuda is a master at creating suspense. It was almost unsafe to read The Prey while driving because I was gripping the steering wheel so tightly. I don't think I ever breathed easy, not even when Gene, Sissy and Co. finally arrived in "the land of milk and honey, fruit and sunshine." 
 The Prey isn't without flaws. Gene, the main character, often irritated me. He's still learning how to put others first, and he's lucky that he's got Sissy there to show him how it's done. (Seriously. She's awesome like that.) He's also slow to understand what's going on in the human village, even if he senses that something is off from the very beginning. The village scenario is pretty standard to dystopians, but I think Fukuda does a pretty good job of explaining how it came to be. He manages to humanize the elders (as much as that's possible), but disappointingly doesn't do the same for the village girls. I wanted have a better understanding of why they obeyed the elders. Or at least one that confirmed my suppositions. And I'm pretty sick of the he's dead/he's not dead back and forth about Gene's dad. 
 But, really, the flaws just made The Prey that much more awesome. Or, rather, they made me realize how much I good the book really was. The Prey was completely engrossing. The ending left me hitting my steering wheel in frustration because it doesn't just end on a cliffhanger, it ends on one that makes you go, "WHAT?! HE COULDN'T HAVE ENDED THE BOOK THIRTY SECONDS LATER?!?!" Basically, the most successful cliffhanger in the history of cliffhangers. I must have book three. I simply must.