Those, dear readers, are two words the Dexter novels should never be associated with. Simply put, going back to the status quo made DEXTER BY DESIGN… boring. However, after reading this fourth Dexter novel, we changed our mind. Just horrible.) Now remember, we originally stated we thought this would be the way to go.
(Let’s all hold hands and say it NEVER happened! Wee! Horrible. The situation is like the terrible ending of the novel SPHERE by Michael Crichton.
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There is only one thing worse than taking your series in a completely un-foreshadowed direction, and that is going back to the way it was before without even an informative comment. And he decided to mention the events of the prior novel exactly once. So, in the DEXTER BY DESIGN, we figured Lindsay would go further with that line of thought to make that story-line less jarring. If Dexter were an author, he would kill you for such an oversight.) Lindsay decided the third novel should be all paranormal horror.
What do we mean by an odd third novel? Well, for whatever reason (With no foreshadowing we might add. We understand those opinions, and prior to reading the latest Dexter novel, we too had hoped the fourth novel would get us back on-track after a decidedly… odd?… third novel. Some may (mistakenly) consider it a worthy addition to the Dexter series, and an improvement over 2007’s DEXTER IN THE DARK ( Amazon). To be quite honest, we are getting tired of the novels, and are turning more towards the Showtime Series for our Dexter fix.ĭEXTER BY DESIGN is not a bad novel.
The fourth novel by Jeff Lindsay that follows the exploits of Deviously Deadly Dexter - if you followed our advice earlier and read the first novel DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER ( ), you know why we use the alliteration… and it should be fairly obvious anyway.
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