This is the third book in the Dexter series. I found that it did go into more detail about Dexter's blood spatter/forensics job and about the orgins of Dexter's Dark Passenger (perhaps a little too much and yet not enough detail at the same time). The author makes me wonder about his own marriage as he portrays Dexter's impending nuptials as a trap and so very upsetting to Dexter that it is one of the few times in Dexter's life that he has actually felt emotional pain. I found the back story on the dark passenger hard to stay interested in and this book had quite a few more plot holes than the previous two. I still enjoyed it but I would have enjoyed it more if Dexter hadn't been (and complained constantly about) feeling unlike himself for most of the book. I missed the old Dexter much as Dexter professed to himself. I am hoping that there will be a fourth book that will have the old Dexter running a little amok on the dwellers of the dark under belly of Miami like the previous two. I found the Dexter of this book a little too defeated and down trodden for my tastes. I also was starting to find myself a little disturbed by the "adventures" of his new step children. Maybe I am a little prudish after all but I don't like to think of children experimenting with death and killing even though statistically most serial killers do this as children. It doesn't mean that I want to read about it and I especially don't like Rita's almost non reaction to it. Her character is becoming more and more like a drab dish mop to me, just a necessary prop to all of other story developments, no real character development at all. Again, this makes me wonder about the authors own marriage.
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