This is the first book in the Dexter series by Jeff Lindsey.
It could roughly be classed in the genre of crime. However unlike other crime
novels this is told from the murders perspective. It isn’t often I start a book
and consider the fact that I am going to be on the killer side. I have watched
most of the TV show which I thoroughly enjoyed, the book is different enough
that you don’t feel like you have been through it before.
The book starts with Dexter and his ‘Dark Passenger’ the
voice inside him that drives his need to kill. Dealing with a killer worse than
him by far. We follow him and his strange thoughts through his day to day life.
He repeatedly mentions that he is not human and does feel the way he should
towards others. His closest relationship is with is foster sister Deborah who
is following in her father’s footsteps and aims to move up from the normal
police to the homicide team. Dexter is a blood spatter analyst and manages to
keep his extra curricula activities hidden from all the police officers and detective
around him. However Dexter starts to question himself and his grasp on sanity
when it starts to look like he is involved with a string of vicious murders on
hookers grips Miami.
This book was so easy and fun to read. At no point did
anything Lindsey wrote feel like a chore to get through. I started to forget
about the show and just go with his utter brilliance that shone through every
single page. It is such a good book I can’t think of any other way to explain
it. The book won’t make you think too deeply but it is fun and different and
happily part of a larger series of books.
My lasting impression of this book is liking a character
that should be likeable. Hoping he stays out of the clutches of the law which
will always try and stop him. Also I can tell there is more to Dexter than
meets the eye and I can’t wait to read the rest and delve into his sick and
twisted mind again.
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