Double Dexter

That was a fun one, more focus on the life with Rita here. I really like how the characters around Dexter developed in the book series. It's interesting to see how the tv series understood the characters, how they developed them and how different it can be.

While the tv series “Dexter” is quite intense and dramatic, the books are run on ridiculous slapstick that i'm enjoying very much. I find it hilarious when Dexter speaks about being “off his game” when the guy hadn't had anything going his way in 6 books lol.

It was nice to see Dexter get out of Miami for a while.

I always seem to forget that Dexter of the novels and Dexter of the television exist in two separate universes, universes in which Deb is either privy to Dexter's hobby or ignorant of it, universes in which Doakes is dead or alive, universes in which Rita is dead or alive... There's a lot of Schrodinger-ing that goes on for me before I open a book or start a new season...

This book felt like a return to the delicious form of the first of Lindsay's Dexter stories, but perhaps it is just because I have been so long without Dexter of the television that I was more forgiving of the failures of the storytelling to begin with. However, as the tale of the shadow wore on, I found myself so bored - exposition for ages, and then ten pages of brick throwing! child snatching! boat jumping! shark attacking! sneaky escape! Phew. Not enough tension for the short and conclusive burst of intensity that we finished on.

Darling Dexter has lost his Dastardly Charm in his old age, and his inability to move beyond his inanities(he's obsessed with how he has lost his edge - YES WE SEE THAT, TOO!) and failure to fight having fallen into the married life mask he tried so carefully to create.

An honest attempt, it was laugh out loud funny during some parts but I still felt like it wasn't on par with the earlier novels in the series. Overall it was a good time though, I really enjoyed it.