This was a bit of an disappointment. I was expecting something with the same cracking good dialogue as the TV series *Castle* (the book is a tie-in), but, instead, it's more like a female-version of a Mickey Spillane novel, with sex and sexism included. The tub/naked Nikki Heat scene alone was totally ridiculous, and you could tell it was written by a man. Also, the mystery didn't really...
more This was a bit of an disappointment. I was expecting something with the same cracking good dialogue as the TV series *Castle* (the book is a tie-in), but, instead, it's more like a female-version of a Mickey Spillane novel, with sex and sexism included. The tub/naked Nikki Heat scene alone was totally ridiculous, and you could tell it was written by a man. Also, the mystery didn't really work.
The worse part is that this novel gives tie-ins a bad name by being so bad, well, pretty bad. I've read a LOT of tie-in novels (I collect them, so I have tie-ins going back to the the mid-1960s) and frequently they are really good stories. A tie-in has to capture the spirit of the source product (e.g. a TV show, movie, or more rarely a play or other series of novels) AND provide a story that couldn't be done in the original format - usually for reasons of length and story complexity. *Heat Wave* does neither - Nikki Heat isn't really Kate Beckett, and Jameson Rook (a thinly-disguised Rick Castle and Marty Sue par excellance) doesn't have Nathan Fillion's charm as Castle. It was a nice idea to try a tie-in to the TV series *Castle* of the book Rick Castle was working on, but, unfortunately, the results misses the boat.
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