Dearly Devoted Dexter Book Review

Book Review

Max Duckworth

Dearly Devoted Dexter by: Jeff Lindsay

Publisher: Vintage Books

Genre: Crime Fiction

Where I Got It: Amazon.com after reading the first Dexter book, (Darkly Dreaming Dexter).

One Sentence Summary: Dexter Morgan is not your regular blood-splatter-analyst; he is a serial killer, but he only kills bad people but a new killer is tearing through Miami with a series of gruesome murders and only Dexter can stop him.

First Sentence: It’s that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the quivering ears of that dear old voice in the shadows, the Dark Passenger, nestled snug in the backseat of the Dodge-K car of Dexter’s hypothetical soul.

First Chapter Review: The first chapter of Dearly Devoted Dexter is great. After sinking your teeth into the first three paragraphs, you’re left on the edge of your seat or whatever it is you might be sitting on. It perfectly expresses the scenario in a way that is: humorous, suspenseful and informative at the same time. You are lead on to believe that Dexter is about to kill the first victim of the book when he is just playing Hide and Seek with his newly found step children.

It introduces you to the books general theme quite well; a serial killer bound by rules (taught to him by his late step-father) and family (his long-term girlfriend and step-children). It makes you want to read more and more and more and more.

Verdict: A FANTASIC read for fans of the show (on Showtime and CBS), those who enjoyed the first book and people that want to experience quite possibly the best book ever; it’s just as good as it’s show.

Cover comments: We see a chopping-knife laying in a bed of rose petals behind the words: Dearly Devoted Dexter written in blood-splatter. It’s elegance matches its content; as does the ‘New York Times Bestseller’ banner along the top, the comment, “Morbidly funny” taken from a review and a sticker at the bottom, informing you that this is indeed what the HIT Showtime series ‘Dexter’ is based on.