Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

As many others I picked this up after seeing the show on TV. I was a bit shocked about Dexter at the beginning and questioning the wisdom of making a serial killer the likeable hero of a TV show. He grew on me and by season 2 I was hooked. It didn't hurt that I really like Michael C Hall and was a fan already from Six Feet Under.

I got the book to see how it compares, on the off chance that it might be even better. It's not, the show is hard to beat. But I still liked the book a lot and enjoyed reading it very much. You are even more in Dexter's head than you are in the show. And the sarcasm is great -- it hits you on almost every page and I was laughing out loud several times. It is not a gory as the show, but perhaps I am just missing the visual cues and others would feel differently.

Towards the end the inner monologue got a bit too much for me and I was wanting for a more action driven plot, which is why I gave the book one star less than possible. But I am pretty sure that I will read book two at some point, this was too much fun to stop.