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A review by tmmarkos
Dexter Is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay
3.0
I was a fan of the TV show up until the fifth season and I tediously sat through it all to the miserable end. I picked up these books mostly out of curiosity knowing that they take the story in a completely different direction.
On the plus side, they are short. However, I wouldn't be quick to call them "mysteries". Every little reveal is blatantly obvious to the reader chapters before it becomes obvious to the characters and the author still condescends enough to spell it out for you long after you've figured it out. Dexter's inner monologue is not "sardonic and clever" so much as flat and punny. The overuse of alliteration will start to wear on your nerves after the second book. And perhaps the greatest offense is the villains- each more cheesy than the last. I'll keep reading them because I'm curious to see how far it goes from the TV show and if the author had the nerve to end it the way the show should have ended, but if you're going to read them you have to accept that your intelligence is going to be insulted quite a bit. They're not the worst books I've ever read by any means, but they're very disposable.
On the plus side, they are short. However, I wouldn't be quick to call them "mysteries". Every little reveal is blatantly obvious to the reader chapters before it becomes obvious to the characters and the author still condescends enough to spell it out for you long after you've figured it out. Dexter's inner monologue is not "sardonic and clever" so much as flat and punny. The overuse of alliteration will start to wear on your nerves after the second book. And perhaps the greatest offense is the villains- each more cheesy than the last. I'll keep reading them because I'm curious to see how far it goes from the TV show and if the author had the nerve to end it the way the show should have ended, but if you're going to read them you have to accept that your intelligence is going to be insulted quite a bit. They're not the worst books I've ever read by any means, but they're very disposable.