Dexter is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay

Dexter is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay

Dexter always lived by a single golden rule: only kill people who deserve it. But the Miami blood spatter analyst has recently become a daddy - to an eight-pound curiosity named Lily Anne - and strangely, Dex's dark urges seem to have left him. Is he ready to become an overprotective father? To pick up soft teddy bears instead of his trusty knife, duct tape and fishing wire? What's a serial killer to do?

Then Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of an eighteen-year-old girl who appears to have been abducted by a bizarre group who just may be vampires... and, possibly, cannibals. There's nothing like the familiar hum of his day job to get Dexter's creative dark juices flowing again. Assisting his bull-in-a-china-shop detective sister, Deborah, Dex wades into an investigation that gets more disturbing by the moment.

To compound the complication of Dexter's ever-more-complicated life, a person from his past suddenly reappears... moving dangerously close to his home turf and threatening to destroy the one thing that has maintained Dexter's cover and kept him out of the electric chair: his new family.

  I've come to a certain problem with the Dexter series. Constant, near death situations that Dexter always gets out of unharmed to any extent at all - there just is not an tense build up anymore. I feel there is not enough interest in Dexter's somewhat unusual hobby...being a serial killer and all. He is not challenged enough, where as in the Dexter TV series, Laguerta is a prevailing force who would have been scrutinizing Dexter's activities with great interest.

The character of Rita(Dexter's wife) can be considered rather aggravating in relation to her stumble of speech. Her dialogue consists of half sentences, that are broken up by other mumbled, often pointless statements. Although, I am quite pleased with Dexter's brother Brian. He is serial killer with purpose, charm and for some untold reason he has a considerable amount of interest in Dexter's family. Brain is to some degree a Dark Daddy Dexter Defender.

Barely any to no mentoring is done by Dexter to try and stir Astor and Cody firmly and directly down the Harry path. Dexter finds himself intoxicated with family life prior to being intoxicated by a certain Dark Passenger... The constant need that pulls from the gleam of the moon to the dark, feathery wings that tickle his neck with a piercing insight into what it thinks he needs to do is gone. Will it stay gone? Will Dexter Morgan, blood spatter analyst ever return to his former guilty pleasure?

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 A big bubble of a surprise bursts triumphantly into the crevices of the this very book - a fascinating theme crops into view for the duration of the book - that is cannibalism. Not a particularly light theme, but has a respectable amount of blood and gore, like is expected from the combination of the blood spatter design that glows a proud red on the cover, and from the lengthy description. Several scenes honestly were simply too much for my mental gag reflex - various flesh chewed, cooked, violently torn, generally ripped to shreds and eaten...Furthermore the dysfunctional vampires with purposely sharpened canines that like to dance and sway to awful sounding music, while drinking masses of blood colored, red punch...

All of the Dexter book series always have good conclusions. There are no big wriggling worms of cliff hangers, but instead a nice, concise ending. It mightn't have the effect of wanting the reader to read more about Dexter experiences, but then again I don't think an exploding cliff hanger is needed to keep one's attention; Jeff Lindsay's clever writing style and general creative story telling is quite enough for readers to lock and load their minds' for another Dexter book.