Darkly Dreaming Dexter
by Jeff Lindsay
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Author: Jeff LindsayEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-08-25
ISBN: 0307473708
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Blood Sets my Teeth on Edge
Summary: 5 Stars
It took me a while to read the Dexter series of books because I had been a longtime fan of the series and I was afraid of what I might find here. I personally couldn't imagine a different Dexter and i thought there might be a different person described in the book that would ruin something for me. Waiting so long - that really was a mistake. When I sat down with the first Dexter book, I recognized the characters immediately. What's more, I understood some things that I really hadn't taken the time to recognize before. The shirts the detectives/ forensic personages wear, for example, really didn't strike me as odd until I saw the "why" that was described here. I also never thought of the way Maimi cleaned up a crime scene and made it look like something like Dahmerland - by Disney! - until I read the book. Even phrases Dexter mutters in his mind are in both places, completing a character that I have grown to love over the last 4 seasons.
If anything, the book allows a complete picture of Dexter to flourish.
In the show, Dexter has flahses that he shares with the audience and, in the book, he has thoughts that describe his mindset. The two are the same in a lot of ways, only Dexter in the book shows some details that add to the way I see him. Combine that with the show and you have a superb look at a great writer and a great script that allowed Dexter to be born. This book took me a day to read and another to read again for comparison, and I was surprised by how much I had known but that could be pointed out to me. There are bit players in the series I had never known by name, but now that I see them I understand them and the little things that make them unique. Couple that with our Debs and out detective/forensic squads and you have somethint aht is creative, that flows well, and that had a hook that I can only described as addictive.
Since I do not want to ruin the book or the series for people who have not read it, I will say that the descriptions of Dexter are right in some ways but off in others. In places i have seen him described as an emotionless man (he even adds that), but he is far from that. He has complexities that make you like him, a sense of humor that runs dark enough to make you find him interesting, and a past that makes you want to keep learning more. In the series of episodes, I have 4 seasons that are still giving me more, and the books (I'm on the 4th now) also do that. That keep on giving me complex pictures of a man who has a code and a dark passenger riding shotgun with him, and that makes things very interesting. Even the beginning of both sets, the childkiller and how it sets up, both show you the same thing and yet - and yet they give you little pieces of a puzzle that are uniquely their own. This should make this reading a must for fans and nice read for people thinking about getting into the character, because the book provides many latyers along many lines that even make smaller pieces interesting to see as they develop. Decide what you want to see fgirst, however, because one will give away answers to the other and, well, you can't have it both ways.
you simply should try it on in both directions to see how you love the packaging.
I can't say enough about how much I was wrong to wait. Sorry Dexter. I'm glad you don't collect slides just because a person likes to put things off. Also, do not forget the other books that have come out because the on-going era of Dexter is a great thing to watch.
If only I had a bowling shirt like his now, i would feel rather good on this Halloween night.
Summary of Darkly Dreaming Dexter
The Basis for a New ShowtimeŽ Original Series Starring Michael C. Hall(Sundays at 10pm ET/PT - starts Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 10pm ET/PT)
Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep?s clothing. He?s handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. He?s a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad people. And his job as a blood splatter expert for the Miami police department puts him in the perfect position to identify his victims. But when a series of brutal murders bearing a striking similarity to his own style start turning up, Dexter is caught between being flattered and being frightened?of himself or some other fiend.
Meet Dexter Morgan. He's a highly respected lab technician specializing in blood spatter for the Miami Dade Police Department. He's a handsome, though reluctant, ladies' man. He's polite, says all the right things, and rarely calls attention to himself. He's also a sociopathic serial killer whose "Dark Passenger" drives him to commit the occasional dismemberment.
Mind you, Dexter's the good guy in this story.
Adopted at the age of four after an unnamed tragedy left him orphaned, Dexter's learned, with help from his pragmatic policeman father, to channel his "gift," killing only those who deal in death themselves. But when a new serial killer starts working in Miami, staging elaborately grisly scenes that are, to Dexter, an obvious attempt at communication from one monster to another, the eponymous protagonist finds himself at a loss. Should he help his policewoman sister Deborah earn a promotion to the Homicide desk by finding the fiend? Or should he locate this new killer himself, so he can express his admiration for the other's "art?" Or is it possible that psycho Dexter himself, admittedly not the most balanced of fellows, is finally going completely insane and committing these messy crimes himself?
Despite his penchant for vivisection, it's hard not to like Dexter as his coldly logical personality struggles to emulate emotions he doesn't feel and to keep up his appearance as a caring, unremarkable human being. Breakout author Jeff Lindsay's plot is tense and absorbing, but it's the voice of Dexter and his reactions to the other characters that will keep readers glued to Darkly Dreaming Dexter, as well as making it one of the most original and highly recommended serial killer stories in a long time. --Benjamin Reese
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