Darkly Dreaming Dexter : A Novel

by Jeff Lindsay | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 038551123x Global Overview for this book
Registered by MadameUrushiol of Milford, New Hampshire USA on 9/18/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by MadameUrushiol from Milford, New Hampshire USA on Sunday, September 18, 2005
This is fighting it out for my favorite book of 2005.

"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

Journal Entry 2 by MadameUrushiol from Milford, New Hampshire USA on Thursday, October 19, 2006
Sent off today to live with Shadie.

Journal Entry 3 by Shadie from Indian Trail, North Carolina USA on Wednesday, November 1, 2006
This was such a great book! I Loved it...and I'm probably going to save this one for Ol'Pal to read before it goes off on another journey.

Thanks for sending it! And the pen caused me to laugh myself into tears.

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