Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

26 reviews

thescarletangel's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Cursing, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Racial slurs, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, Child death, and Death of parent

_sawdust's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, and Blood

f_amiliar_happine_ss's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

What a nice read :)
I watched the show a while ago and enjoyed it, reading it was equally as entertaining. From what I remember the details are pretty much parallel with some minor changes. I'd recommend if you're already interested in the series as this was a nice refresher.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Death of parent, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse and Child death

directorpurry's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Misogyny, Blood, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Murder, Death, Stalking, Torture, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death of parent, Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Medical trauma

thrillakilla's review

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Blood

muffmacguff's review

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This book was not that good! Not nearly creepy/gory enough to live up to its premise and the twist ending was, like, surprise nonsense. I liked the first season of the show when I watched it and remember it being better than this book. Also this book is crazy horny in a distracting sexist way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Blood

Moderate: Misogyny

sexualedward's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gore, Violence, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, Addiction, Cursing, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcohol

flederm4us's review

It has a very racist and sexist framing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Child death, Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Misogyny

imagine_big's review against another edition

dark lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Ideal book for when you are in your "i wanna be edgy" days. A fast read with simple writing too. It's not a book i highly recommend, unless serial killers are one of your guilty pleasures. 

There are two ocasions at the end with slight homophobic jokes/comments done by a character, which was something i found a bit unnecessary. Im not sure if this was intensional by the author or not, so that's why im mentioning it. It could easily be just because that character was supposed to be unlikable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Minor: Homophobia

c_dmckinney's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book was adapted very well as the TV series Dexter. Some of it was adapted line by line

except of course for what happened with Laguerta and Deb finding out

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Torture, Stalking, Racism, Pedophilia, Murder, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, and Gaslighting