The Red Dragon is a twistedly amazing story. It’s fast paced, intelligent. You can tell that he did his research on practically every matter. The way things work, the psychology, everything. This is where it kind of loses it though. There seems to be so much that you need to understand and the author needs to spell out for you before he goes into it, that there seems to be large moments of info bursts. While good at times, others it just bores.
Another thing that seemed to really throw me off was Dolarhyde’s backstory. It seemed as though he was told to include more of him, and why he is the way he is, that it felt rehearsed. It stuck out from the rest of the book in a bad way. The style was different, it was rushed, not paced very well, and just all in all odd feeling.
Everything is rather fantastic though. The characters are human, they’re flawed and relatable, to a point. The story is paced extremely well, kind of like a Hollywood film. The detective side of the story is pretty well written.