I liked this book, but it was not on par with the other Dexter books. Maybe my expectations were too high. Anticipation can do that. Or maybe it just wasn't quite as witty. In some ways that would be expected, since Dexter loses his "Dark Passenger". He even says that his life is dull because of it. So perhaps it was a conscious effort on the author's part. 
 I doubt it. 
 Still, for the further adventures of Dexter, it was a decent read. He's getting married, if he lives that long. In the meantime he has to solve a series of murders where the victims are burned, decapitated, then left with a ceramic bull's head in place of their own.