Dearly Devoted Dexter Blog.

Dexter Morgan is the ever trusted, smiling blood splatter analyst for the Miami-Dade Metro PD. And he takes life. Seriously. The thing is he only kills bad people. Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay is the second book in the Dexter series. In this volume the main character, Dexter, is be followed and watched by Sergeant James Doakes, one of the heads of staff at his job. He’s following him because of the recent death of Detective Maria LaGuerta, which Dexter is partially responsible for. Since Dexter has to keep a very low profile he is forced to act like any other “normal” human would. He spends time with his girlfriend Rita and her two kids Astor and Cody and starts to realize that he has fallen out of the serial killer loop. He hasn’t given into the urge in almost a month and is becoming in Dexter’s words, “a couch potato.” After weeks of no killing and being followed by Srgt. Doakes the police discover one of the most horrific crime scenes they have ever come across. The victim has had all of his limbs removed. Along with his lips, nose, eyelids, teeth and ears and he’s still alive. The victim turns out to be linked to Srgt. Doakes past and so is the FBI agent that comes to Miami to investigate the crime, Kyle Chutsky. Dexter’s foster sister Deborah stars working with and dating Chutsky, which causes more problems when he is abducted by the villain who we only know as Dr. Danco. Dexter now has to save his sisters boyfriend from a killer he knows next to nothing about and to make it all better he has to work with Srgt. Doakes on the case who would rather have him dead than anywhere near him.

In Dearly Devoted Dexter the one major theme that arguably is Dexter Morgan is one or morality. Is Dexter a good person doing bad things or a bad person doing good things? It is really up to the readers to decide if it is morally right to kill someone if that someone is a killer themselves. Dexter is written in first person and since the person in question is extremely clever the book follows suit. It is filled with puns, word play and alliteration always using the letter “D”. The way it is written is almost in thought form and really gets the reader interested in the book because it feels like they have an emotional connection with Dexter. There isn’t really any thing that someone could relate to with Dexter except the characters unless you are a serial killer with a lovely charm. That’s not to say that readers won’t get attached to the book. They absolutely do but there isn’t really any heartwarming message in the book. I think Dexter is too different from any other books we have or are going to read to have anything in common with them. The only thing that Jeff Lindsay could have done to make Dexter better is to make it longer. There is nothing I would change about it at all. This book is for anyone who likes crime fiction but I wouldn’t suggest it to people younger than fourteen just because some of the content is a little bit on the graphic side. In Dexter there is a lot of alliteration with the word “D” and that always has Dexter’s name in it. I.e. Dashing Dexter, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dexter’s Dark Dance ect. ect. This is very effective because it keeps everything light hearted and fun even though most of it pertains to killing people. Metaphor is also used a couple of times in the book. “That rascal moon slung itself so fat and low in the sky…”. It just gives the reader a better idea of what Dexter is really seeing or feeling at the time. Since Dexter is now a TV show I’d like to take a moment to just talk about the short falling of the show. Dexter is supposed to be a mildly out of control person with a monster inside of him and the show portrays him as in control all the time. I feel they could do a much better job with that but the show is still one of my favorites.