I Am Not a Serial Killer By Dan Wells is a book that falls between fiction and science fiction, Jeff Lindsay and Frank Peretti...even reminiscent of C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters. The protaganist seems like a pubescent version of Dexter without a mentor to keep him from spiraling out of control. John Wayne Cleaver, our serial killer obsessed teen narrator lives by a set of rigid rules determined not to become the monster he believes he will one day become only to find himself confronted by a darkness more brazen and sinister that he could imagine. As Cleaver lets down his own safety nets to confront a killer and save his small town he must battle his inner demons and own thirst for carnage to keep himself intact. This debut novel is the first in a trilogy.
