Book #516 – Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

Continuing in the Southeast United States, I picked the book based in Florida. Originally published in 2004, Darkly Dreaming Dexter was the first of the Dexter series. It spanned 8 books, that were being published just slightly ahead of the television series (at least until that last book). If you pick up the book series after watching the television series, be prepared for a few changes. (That’s pretty typical though, isn’t it?)

I watched the series first, at least the first few seasons. My husband is currently watching the entire series for the second time because it popped back on Netflix. So, of course, certain scenes in the book felt like deja vu, as the book covers the first season of the show. In an interesting twist, the show and the books ended up being simultaneously written after about the 3rd season, with the last book being published about 2 years after the show’s conclusion. I’m actually interested to see how far they diverge in plotlines.