Heat Wave

Cheesy fiction, but if you like the show "Castle" you are sure to enjoy it.

Silly, but cute. Just like the TV show, which is what you picture when you read it.

New author good story with plausible twists and turns.

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.   hide

Some of it seemed very amateur in the writing... other parts were very well done and thought out. Overall it was interesting and had enough twists and turns with peppered humor that catches the shows stigma.

Story was like an episode of the show, but they need a book editor.

I love the TV show Castle and I loved this book!

I don't usually read fiction, and this is what I consider to be a 'light' read. I read it in one sitting, but it was very enjoyable. It is purported to be a mystery novel written by Richard Castle, the titular hero of the TV show CASTLE. The novel is about Castle's fictitious character Nikki Heat, based on Detective Beckett, who Castle studies to get inspiration for his novels. Got it? In this...more

I don't usually read fiction, and this is what I consider to be a 'light' read. I read it in one sitting, but it was very enjoyable. It is purported to be a mystery novel written by Richard Castle, the titular hero of the TV show CASTLE. The novel is about Castle's fictitious character Nikki Heat, based on Detective Beckett, who Castle studies to get inspiration for his novels. Got it? In this novel, Jameson Rook is Castle's alter ego, and he does to Nikki Heat what Richard Castle would like to do to Detective Beckett!   hide

If you like the TV show Castle, you will love this book.