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I was very disappointed in this book. Dexter cheated on his wife and he showed none of the affection or caring for his child or her children that has been hinted at in the past. He seemed selfish. A large portion of the story dealt with how much he lived the character he cheated with and my stance is that if he could have true emotion and connection with her then he could have a real connection with his child and his wife's children but his book discussed frequently his lack of real relationship with them. His relationship with his sister was also destroyed which I disliked. The best part of reading his past books was seeing the glimpses of hope that he had more "good" in him than he realized. This book totally destroyed that hope. Before I finished the book I found myself disliking this character intensely whereas before I liked him "despite of himself".


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Dexter Final Cut A Novel Dexter Series Jeff Lindsay 9780385536516 Books Reviews

Another great entry into the Dexter story line. These books are so great that it ruined the TV show for me. I understand that they can not show the stuff on TV that the books cover but Jeff Lindsay's writing is so superior that it left the show really lacking for me and I never watched it again after the first season (which is the reason I picked up the books). Every book has kept me pulled into the story and worrying about what is happening to our anti-hero, till this one. The True Dexter takes a backseat to this unexplored version of himself and even catching the bad guy is really kind of a let down. It does have some of the twists I look forward to but the story felt very anti-climatic. It was good but it almost felt as if Mr. Lindsay is tiring of writing Dexter books.
After the frankly terrible 6th book, the 7th was really quite fun to read. The series is starting to feel a bit like the original series Star Trek Movies -- are the odds good, the evens bad? Who knows?!

But at least in book seven the awful, excruciating, "Witness" plot of book six is a thing of the past, and we have Dexter thrown into a Hollywood production (Lindsay is pretty hard on the whole TV pilot process and it makes me wonder if he is taking jabs at whatever his involvement was in the Showtime production).

<spoilers ahead>

In this book Dexter starts to show us again quite clearly that he is a creep. A lovable creep to his fans, but a creep nonetheless. And I'm relieved, as that's exactly what he's supposed to be. He has no reluctance to leave his wife, home and family, and when the woman he wants to leave them for is murdered, he feels sorry for himself, not her.

Dexter is pretty bone-headed about a few things in this book. This is not the first time it's happened in the series, but our lovable creep can also be pretty darned stupid. From my perspective as a fangirl it is a bit unpleasant to be confronted with that stupidity. Being a creep is one thing, but being a moron? That's something else.

Dexter is also quite heartless about Rita. The heartlessness is painfully brutal. Even his sweet little baby daughter is mainly just a way to cast his DNA into the future. Indeed, this is a vastly different Dexter than the one in the last few books since Lilly Ann was born, when it seemed he was maybe, just maybe, becoming a bit more "human."

It's a good story with the normal dry humor we have come to expect (you know, I would love to adopt Dexter's positive and productive attitude about driving!), and thankfully Deb has a very minor role. So this book is mostly about our serial-killing, paranoid schizophrenic, adulterous anti-hero. And I like that. He's why I read these books. And at least in this book, Lindsay seems to acknowledge that.

<really big spoilers ahead>

<you have been warned>

This is a case of art imitating... art...? Because Rita gets killed at the very end (gosh, what a cliff-hanger) and it is similar to what happens in the Michael C. Hall series in a way... he's there with Rita's body and it looks bad for Dexter. And in fact the only reason it seemed he cared about Rita at all was that she might help with his alibi (and that he'll no longer benefit from her cooking). Regardless, she dies, literally in his arms. And we won't know how bad things are for Dexter until we buy the next book....

And to be honest, I wasn't planning on buying the next book because I think maybe Lindsay kills off Dexter in it (if I am to believe what I have written about it), and I don't want him deaded. I hate it when authors and TV shows kill off beloved characters, and I avoid such things whenever possible.

What a conundrum!
"Deeply Disappointing Dexter" would have made for a more appropriate title, in my opinion.

Without providing spoilers, I felt like this seventh installment in the Dexter series provided us with a Dexter unlike we've seen before. He was not cool, calm, or collected through most of the story and was instead lead by emotion, fantasy, and disillusion which is very unlike the Dexter we have come to know throughout the series. The only consistent piece found within this series was Lindsay's decision to have the villain of the story use the kids as a plot device to string Dexter along, which I think at this point has been a little overused.

I appreciate Lindsay's attempt at making changes to a story readers will already recognize; however I think the changes need to be made to the events and story, not the main character. As a constant reader, I enjoy reading the story from Dexter's perspective and one thing I've always enjoyed is that Dexter, for the most part, is a predictable and simple creature.

Knowing what to expect from Dexter makes the story exciting to see what situations he will end up in and seeing him wrapped in a mystery. With "Final Cut" Lindsay has altered Dexter's core being, making him seem more 'human' than he's ever been and he has used some of the same plot devices that we've already seen in other books.

As a side note, I think if Lindsay would've focused more on a better story and new plot devices rather than Dexter's witty comments it may have turned out a little better. There were many times where it felt like Lindsay probably spent more time trying to think of Dexter's clever response rather than the story as it unfolded.

Also, I feel like it's finally worth saying that Lindsay has not fully utilized the story arc of guiding Rita's kids down the "dark path." He touched on it in earlier books and always left the reader wondering how far he would go, but at this point being seven books in I find it a little disappointing that he has not ventured into this darker, unexplored territory.

The only redeeming quality of "Dexter's Final Cut" is that it ended with a cliffhanger, so maybe the next book will bring us back to the Dexter we all know and love.

Pros a decent cliffhanger.
Cons you're more eager to be done with the book rather than to find out who the identity of the "mystery killer"
Bottom line still worth a read for fans of the series, just don't get your hopes up
I was very disappointed in this book. Dexter cheated on his wife and he showed none of the affection or caring for his child or her children that has been hinted at in the past. He seemed selfish. A large portion of the story dealt with how much he lived the character he cheated with and my stance is that if he could have true emotion and connection with her then he could have a real connection with his child and his wife's children but his book discussed frequently his lack of real relationship with them. His relationship with his sister was also destroyed which I disliked. The best part of reading his past books was seeing the glimpses of hope that he had more "good" in him than he realized. This book totally destroyed that hope. Before I finished the book I found myself disliking this character intensely whereas before I liked him "despite of himself".