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A review by lethaldose
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
3.0
Like many people I read this book because I am a huge fan of the tv show. All my favorite characters were here and the story is basically the first season of the series.
I have seen movies that were just as good as the books, but here is a case where the show far outstrips the book. The characters are basically the same, but they are better in the show. Dexter is a show where you love the characters in spite of their major flaws. Here every character other than Dexter himself are very uninteresting.
But the story should have been bette too because it is the story from the show, but it really isn't. There is none of the flavor here, and apparently the series writers are more clever than Jeff Lindsay because the came up with better spins on the story than he did. And the end of the first season of Dexter was very satisfying, here the end of the book is aggravating and cheap.
This is not to say that this is a bad book, it isn't, but I think most people are coming to this book because they are fans of the show. And that might not be a good reason, because like the book fan that gets upset when the movie doesn't live up to the book, here is a book that doesn't live up the show.
I am not sure at this point if I will bother continuing with the book series, maybe I will just stick with the Michael C Hall Dexter, and leave the Jeff Lindsay Dexter on the shelf.
I have seen movies that were just as good as the books, but here is a case where the show far outstrips the book. The characters are basically the same, but they are better in the show. Dexter is a show where you love the characters in spite of their major flaws. Here every character other than Dexter himself are very uninteresting.
But the story should have been bette too because it is the story from the show, but it really isn't. There is none of the flavor here, and apparently the series writers are more clever than Jeff Lindsay because the came up with better spins on the story than he did. And the end of the first season of Dexter was very satisfying, here the end of the book is aggravating and cheap.
This is not to say that this is a bad book, it isn't, but I think most people are coming to this book because they are fans of the show. And that might not be a good reason, because like the book fan that gets upset when the movie doesn't live up to the book, here is a book that doesn't live up the show.
I am not sure at this point if I will bother continuing with the book series, maybe I will just stick with the Michael C Hall Dexter, and leave the Jeff Lindsay Dexter on the shelf.