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@Ashdroid Ha! Agreed. It felt like the whole of the internet was pushing me to read this book, and I just fully did not like the main character. The world was fun, but I kept looking for clues that I wasn't supposed to root for the protagonist, and never found them?

Jeff Lindsay: Darkly dreaming Dexter (2005, Orion)

I don't remember when I read this; some time after starting the show. Season 1's main arch is lifted straight from this book, then the show went a totally different direction from the book series. (And I'm glad it did) I read the second one as well and it was... more supernatural?

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (Paperback, 2009, Classical Comics)

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of …

I started this after a binge/hyper-focus on the Universal Monsters franchise, and particularly enjoyed the Frankenstein movies. The book is (literally) an entirely different monster. Surprisingly little of what is in the movies are in this book. I very much do not regret picking it up.