Let me start by saying I mostly liked this book. I know, faint praise. I love the Castle tv show and would gladly marry/run away/ shack up with Nathan Fillion in a heartbeat. I've loved him since Firefly. But (and yes, I know you aren't supposed to start a sentence with "but") I can't get into the Castle books. I thought my problem with the first one was that I listened to it on audio and couldn't tell the main characters voices apart. Which is bad when one is male and the other is female. "Naked Heat" I read on my Kindle. I thought the writting was thin, the plot ok, and the inside jokes bugged me. My sister says the jokes are supposed to be funny and sometimes they are. Mostly though I don't like the Nikki Heat or Jameson Rook characters. Or probably I should say I don't like them as well as Beckett and Castle. I see Heat and Rook more like pale echoes of instead of inspired by. And my time is valuable so I'd rather spend it with the originals instead of the imitations.That said. I've read worse. It had it's moments and the last third wrapped it up nicely. This would be a great vacation book or airport book. It doesn't take alot of thought and you don't mind if you leave it behind after reading. I'm glad I checked it out of the library. I also don't mean to pick on the author, because I know it had to be a tightly controlled process. here are your characters, your story, but don't stray to far or do anything drastic because it still needs to fit within the Castle world. I haven't decided if I'm reading the next one yet or not. We'll see.
(Originally posted 01/19/2012)
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