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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385518338
ISBN: 0385518331
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Sales Rank: 12508
Studio: Doubleday
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“One of the most likable vigilante serial killers” (The New Yorker) faces his ultimate adversary…an evil so terrifying it scares away Dexter’s inner monster—and nearly dries up his sense of humor—in this wickedly witty, darkly suspenseful novel.
In his work as a Miami crime scene investigator, Dexter Morgan is accustomed to seeing evil deeds…particularly because, on occasion, he rather enjoys committing them himself. Guided by his Dark Passenger (the reptilian voice inside him), he lives his outwardly normal life adhering to one simple rule: he kills only very bad people. Dexter slides through life undetected, working as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, helping his fiancé raise her two adorable (if somewhat…unique) children, and always planning his next jaunt as Dexter the Dark Avenger under the light of the full moon.
But then everything changes. Dexter is called to a crime scene that seems routine: a gruesome double homicide at the university campus, which Dexter would normally investigate with gusto, before enjoying a savory lunch. And yet this scene feels terribly wrong. Dexter’s Dark Passenger senses something it recognizes, something utterly chilling, and the Passenger—mastermind of Dexter’s homicidal prowess—promptly goes into hiding.
With his Passenger on the run, Dexter is left to face this case all alone—not to mention his demanding sister (Sergeant Deborah), his frantic fiancée (Rita), and the most frightening wedding caterer ever to plan a menu. Equally unsettling, Dexter begins to realize that something very dark and very powerful has its sights set on him. Dexter is left in the dark, but he must summon his sharpest investigative instincts not only to pursue his enemy, but to locate and truly understand his Dark Passenger. To find him, Dexter has to research the questions he’s never dared ask: Who is the Dark Passenger, and where does he come from? It is nothing less than a search for Dexter’s own dark soul…fueled by a steady supply of fresh doughnuts.
Macabre, ironic, and wonderfully entertaining, Dexter in the Dark goes deeper into the psyche of one of the freshest protagonists in recent fiction. Jeff Lindsay’s glorious creativity is on full display in his most accomplished novel yet.
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Rating:  - Can anyone say ....worthless waste of time?
I listened to this book because I have read the previous two and found them interesting and smartly written. I listened to this audiobook and was first disgusted with the filthy language every other sentence from Deborah. GD, JC, and F is her vocab. Can we be more creative? Plus, is she a cop or is Dexter? Her character cannot do one thing without her brother Dexter! She is suppossed to be the chief? Dexter's dark passenger has left him throughout the whole book, which totally deviates from previous writtings. Training the kids Astor/Cody to kill, crazy and sick. This whole book was dissappointing, dont bother, but if you do prepare to cover your ears from the horribly unnecessary language. If this is what Jeff Lindsay gives, I'm done with him!!
Rating:  - Dumbing Down Dexter
It's sad to see such a good series descend to this level. This book was a real disappointment. It's hard to know where to start but the overall premise of the book, that Dexter's "Dark Passenger" is actually a supernatural possession by some kind of child of Moloch an eternal something-or-other, lacks so much believability that it ruins the entire series. What made the first two books so good was that Dexter was the sociopath trying to live in the real world. His "Dark Passenger" was simply a different part of Dexter's personality. The success of the books was that we rooted for Dexter and his "Dark Passenger" in spite of him being a sociopath. But how can we root for some horrible monster that possesses Dexter and forces him to kill?
But Lindsay goes too far even with his idea of how someone becomes a sociopath. Every child, at least according to Lindsay, who is abused as a child, grows up to be a serial killer. Rita's two kids both become sociopaths because they were abused by their father. But that isn't how it happens in the real world. Not all serial killers were abused and not everyone who is abused becomes a serial killer. We can root for Dexter when he is unique and only killing other serial killers, but how can we root for him to create more serial killers? Dexter should be sending the children for intense psychotherapy, not lessons in how to kill.
And worst of all, the book is simply boring. Nothing much happens. There are murders but it is impossible ... Read More
Rating:  - Not as good as the first two but still enjoyable.
As most have said, this wasn't quite as good as the first two Dexter novels. I didn't dislike it as much as many though. Most people's biggest problem was the supernatural aspect to it. This part didn't bother me too much since it wasn't specific to any belief system that I am aware of. I think the biggest downside to it is that the supernatural explanation of the dark passenger sort of deflated a bit of the intrigue built up around Dexter's character. I would also have to agree that changing from Dexter's first person narrative to the third person narrative of IT, and the hhird person narrative of the Watcher did break up the smooth flow of the book. I can see why Lindsay did it, but I think that reducing the amount of detail about IT and the Watcher could have allowed the narrative to stay in Dexter's first person, and increased the mystery and suspense.
Rating: - Unexpected, and not in a good way
Shortly into the book I told a friend "either the latest Dexter book is taking a sharp turn into the supernatural, or something really mindbending is being set up."
I had high hopes for the latter, because we've had psychological twists before. Unfortunately it wasn't, and even more unfortunately, it wasn't done *well*.
Rating: - Just did not work for me
I am all for taking a different approach to a novel to avoid the stale repetition so many series suffer from (and quite frankly Dexter would of been in that category if the third book was in the same vain as the first two). In some ways I think Lindsay deserves some credit for recognizing this and is why this book is getting two stars and not one. Wow, did this not work though. Hopefully just a case of a good author wanting to expand his abilities by trying something a little out there and it just didn't come off as expected. I fear it is the case of a poor author who happened upon a great initial idea and is now not sure what to do with it. As others have said it seems quite possible that Lindsay does not understand what made his first two novels, and the character itself of Dexter, likable.
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