I love the Castle TV series on ABC. I was really intrigued when the Nikki Heat books started to become a reality and were actually published. I have read the first 3 or 4 and once I stopped trying to see the TV show in them they were fun to read. I was excited to see that some of Castle's earlier work, the Derrick Storm books, were starting to appear as well. The advantage here is that the characters are not based upon people, real or TV characters. This and the next 2 books are really just three parts making one book. I am not a fan of the serial novel but mostly because I don't want to wonder how much the complete story is going to cost and while I don't mind cliff hangers that allow for a sequel I don't like my books to just end with a "too be continued" message. But I did not not read these books until they were all out and I found them all in the Library so there was no cost involved. :-)I like to get lost in my stories when I read and this one let me do that for the most part. There were, however, two or three weird errors in the story line that broke my concentration. I cannot remember all of them but the one that comes to mind (no real spoiler here)is a time when Storm leaves his Ford Taurus at a Mall to keep from being followed and switches to a Van. Soon after that the author refers to Storm parking the Taurus. I actually thought that I had missed something but as I looked back and forth in the pages it became clear that the sentence should have said Van and the Taurus really was back at the Mall.I did not think that the writing was bad but I did think that the writing in the Nikki Heat novels was better. This leads me to wonder if these were written by a different author. I do appreciate the fact that I have never stumbled upon the true author(s) writing for Richard Castle so that I can continue to "believe" that they are written by a character in a TV show I watch each week. My sister introduced me to the Castle television and I was hooked. I enjoy watching Nathan Fillion. When I heard there were real books in the Castle series I was amused that Fillion also portrays the writer of the printed books. What a brilliant scam to get tv watchers to read.The book (novella, serial installment?) was disappointing. It had none of the witty repartee that makes the television show so entertaining. At least it was very short. Spoiler alert, it ends in a cliff hanger, just like many season ending television episodes. I started reading the next in the series and gave up within two pages. Just not worth my time.
What do You think about A Brewing Storm (2012)?
A quick fun read. Not much more than a pulp/hardboiled fiction with manly men!
—Alia
this is the first part of a 3 part series.. Short quick read.
—lily
Cheesy and predictable...but enjoyable for fluff reading.
—chandan
