Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Jeff Lindsay

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
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Author: Jeff Lindsay
Edition: 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: Not The Dexter From "Showtime"
Summary: 2 Stars

I purchased this book thinking it would be a continuance of my beloved Dexter from the "Showtime" series. If you love blood and gore running rapid this may be for you. I like the characters and how they were established on the TV series. I didn't like the way his sister Deb was portrayed in the book; she knew that Dexter is a killer, how does that fit in with the story line? In this book Dexter doesn't kill his serial killer brother Brian; moreover, he watches as Brian kills LaGuerta, and in the end he lets his brother go. I like Showtime's Dexter character that follows Harry's code and I'll leave the books for those who like a more sinister, evil character.

Summary of Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

The Basis for a New Showtime? 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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