We stopped listening to this audiobook (read really well by Nick Landrum) a while ago because we’d only just started watching Dexter and it seemed so redundant that we moved on to other content.

But now that the Dexter TV series is over I figured I’d revisit the book, just to get my Dexter fix at the end of what was one of our favorite television shows. I was blown away by how much of the characters’ personalities were fully fleshed out by Jeff Lindsay and how much of the story they used, wholesale, in the TV show. Dexter is a great character, and the story zips along. But enough different things happen along the way that make this book worth listening to.

The only drag on the story is the sometimes heavy lean on alliteration (so many darkly disturbed Dexters, deeply dented Debs). Other than that it was a really enjoyable read/listen, like looking at a childhood album of photos of one of my favorite television show characters.