Dexter By Design by Jeff Lindsay
But old habits die hard--and Dexter’s work as a blood spatter analyst never fails to offer new temptations that appeal to his offbeat sense of justice...and his Dark Passenger still waits to hunt with him in the moonlight.
The discovery of a corpse (artfully displayed as a sunbather relaxing on a Miami beach chair) naturally piques Dexter’s curiosity and Miami’s finest realize they've got a terrifying new serial killer on the loose. And Dexter, of course, is back in business.
It took me slightly longer than it should have done to read this book. Why? Roughly half of the first part of the book is uneventful, with the exception of two interesting occurrences, that take up about four pages out of about one hundred and forty pages... I think a book should be addictive and hook the reader from the start; Dexter by Design does not accomplish this, but I read on nonetheless, as I have a simple expectation for Jeff Lindsay to deliver and he did.
It is a long wait, but there are a few unexpected twists - twists that bring Dexter farther afield than he would normally feel comfortable going...People trust Dexter - some of these unsuspecting people even have the same morals and perspective in life as Dexter himself has!
Dexter continues to mentor Astor and Cody - his wife Rita's children. They become impatient and want to learn more in relation to Dexter's specialty... Dexter does teach them some basic rules, but is often preoccupied with a new Dexter-threatening monster - which happens to be terrorizing Miami.
My Cat Catch Book Rating Scale above- I really liked it (4/5 cats)
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I should of mentioned this before, but at least I've finally got around to it now. Jeff Lindsay has taken full advantage of the many adjectives and nouns which coordinate with Dexter's name: Delightful Dexter, Daring Dexter, the list continues...Even the titles of the books are done this way: Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dearly Devoted Dexter, Dexter in the Dark , Dexter by Design etc. I appreciate the various titles Dexter has, for they connect the reader to the story, not to mention that each Dexter-title is exciting, descriptive and well suited to every situation Dexter finds himself in. I adore this technique which Jeff Lindsay has successfully repeated throughout the series.
The half-a-book-worth-of-boring is why I have taken a cat off my rating for this book. Generally a reader expects a slow beginning/ introduction - maybe a chapter or two - but following the introductory chapters a worthwhile story should unfold.
On a positive note; Lindsay delivered a big satisfying twist, that saved another cat or two from being knocked off my rating. The half-a-book-worth-of-boring is almost forgotten, but not to the extent of the book being classified as absolutely amazing.
