In fact, he flat out admits that his actions are wrong, yet they seem completely reasonable. Dexter is engaging and almost understandable. Lindsay does a terrific job at taking a character whom the reader should absolutely hate and turning him into someone they sympathize with. The criminal isn’t cryptic, and his motives aren’t incomprehensible, which is often the case in the average crime show or novel. Reading from the point of view of the criminal is a vastly different experience. Darkly Dreaming Dexter is the exact opposite its narrator is serial killer Dexter Morgan. Most crime novels and shows come from the point of view of the cop chasing a criminal. Luckily for these unsatisfied crime enthusiasts, author Jeff Lindsay offers an intriguing and unusual alternative in the first book of the Dexter series, Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Some fans don’t mind, but others are starting to get bored. Some horrible criminal commits a heinous crime leaving the cops disgusted, confused, and determined to catch him the only variety is the varying degrees of how disturbing the crime is and mentally messed-up the psychopath may be. There so many crime shows and novels in circulation these days, and they all seem to have the same general plot line.
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