Everything's changing for our friendly neighbourhood serial killer. As if getting married wasn't enough to complete his nice-guy persona, Dex is now the proud father of a baby girl. And disconcertingly, he actually seems to care. But even if fatherhood is distracting Dexter from his midnight excursions to rid Miami of a few more lowlifes, there's no let-up at work. Two young girls are missing - and it's not long before one of the bodies turns up, partially eaten. But as Dexter and Miami PD's finest investigate, Dex can't shake the feeling that somebody's watching him...At home, there's no rest for the wicked. His stepchildren are clamouring to learn how to control their bloodlust and Dexter must train up his young apprentices. But to do that, he'll have to find the missing girl, find out who's tailing him and survive a dark journey into a underground community who really have a taste for death.
This was my favorite Dexter book so far, and not because I won it for free in the Goodreads Giveaways! It actually managed to be shocking and unsettling, which is a bit difficult to be among all the serial killer mysteries on the shelf. Dexter is heads over heels in love with his new baby daughter, and he's finding himself less enamored with his Dark Passenger as he contemplates life as Dex-Daddy. His mental musings about Lily Anne are like his normal internal thoughts on speed, and it's entertaining seeing him feel real, human feelings for the first time. On the downside, Jeff Lindsay's side characters are still as one-note as ever. Rita spends the whole book speaking in strings of half-sentences, and Deb is maddeningly snarly and one-track-minded about finding a kidnapped girl, even when it gets her and Dexter in danger multiple times. The new television series starts tonight, and I'm looking forward to returning to TV-Deb, who always has more going on emotionally than book-Deb does.
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