Customer Reviews
Really enjoyed this... - By: C. C. Davey, 27 Sep 2008 
I can't believe alll the bad reviews Dexter in the Dark has got, they nearly put me off of reading it!
So glad I did though. I reallly enjoyed this book, thought it much better than Dearly Devoted Dexter. I thought the supernatural/historical twist was excellent & has brought something new to the world of Dexter.
Try it for yourself, you may like it.
Can't wait for the next book in the series.
Oh dear...doesn't do Dexter justice Jeff - By: Demo, 23 Aug 2008 
All I have to say has been said in other reviews, particularly about the author cashing in on the success of the series & previous books, but not reallly having any idea were to go. Dexter in the Dark changes genres from the first two books with appallling results. As a previous reviewer said, you can't say too much without giving away the plot, but what the author has done has removed alll the uniqueness from Dexter, & made him an ordinary person facing an unusual situation. Dexter loses his charm, wit, & character & becomes boring.
I've given three stars because the book was an average supernatural thriller;as one in the Dexter series though it should be given a miss.
I love both the tv series, & the first two books, they compliment each other reallly well, even though the tv series differs in major plot lines from the books. This third book should be given a miss by anyone who likes the first two books or the series.
Deeply Disapointing Dexter - By: John F. W. Richards, 14 Aug 2008 
Although Jeff Lindsay's third Dexter novel does have some of the style that made the first two enjoyable there is an irritating strand that converts this entry in the series from a crime novel to a fantasy & a somewhat trite fantasy at that.
Dexter, the artificial human being, in the sense that his apparent humanity is entirely a work of artifice, continues his twin careers as serial killer of deserving victims & Miami police blood splatter specialist & adds a third as mentor & guide to the burgeoning appetites of his fiancee's children. A pair of monsters in the making. So far so good. What spoils the book is the characterisation of the serial killing tendency as something truly external. Dexter has always talked of his Dark Passenger but in this book he meets a bigger, nastier evil which gets its own PoV passages in a manner that indicates that the author expects us to take on that this is a real disembodied intelligence with the ability to possess otherwise innocent people.
Dexter turns from being a psychotic vigilante to a supernatural investigator & ends up taking on a god in a climax that reallly doesn't fit well with the rest of the series to date.
A step backwards for Dexter - By: garyg373, 05 Aug 2008 As most of the earlier reviewers have noted, the supernatural element of this story is a big mistake. Is is certainly a load of old Molochs in comparison to the first two books. Jeff Lindsay appears to be trying to hedge his bets as to whether the demon possession is merely a figment of Dexter's imagination or actuallly true, but if it is imaginary the story becomes entirely implausible: why does Dexter's Dark Passenger go missing, why does he keep hearing the mystic tune, & how is he caused to black out at the most inopportune times?
On the plus side Rita's kids, Cody & Astor, are the real stars of the book & the obvious - but good - plot twist should have been the main theme throughout. As the title of the next book in the series is 'Dear Daddy Dexter', I can only hope that JL sticks with this story line & returns our favourite psychopath to less esoteric forms of murder & mayhem.
Demonically Disapointing Dexter - By: Wilhelm Piscini, 30 May 2008 
The First Dexter novel was a good intro to a nice slant on the genre. The second expanded the first into true American Gothic territory. The third... instead of continuing the internal voice of Dexter in exploring modern alienation, it cops out utterly. Dexter is not an amoral nihilistic ubermensch,damaged by the trauma of 20th century existence & trying to find a reason... NO, just someone possessed by a demon. How mundane. A very disapointing read. I only hope the sublime TV series does not follow in this sasquatch of a footstep.
