Heat Wave

By: Richard Castle

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

The title character from ABC's hit television series Castle kicks off his new series of books featuring tough and sexy New York police detective Nikki Heat with a bang.

©2009 Richard Castle (P)2009 Tantor

Entertaining

I enjoy this author very much bec ause he combines the mystery of the crime with characters that are witty and fun

Quite good.

I really did enjoy "heat wave, it's my first crime novel and I assume like most got into it because of the show castle. I didn't expect much but was happily entertained. And no hate on the narrator I thought he did a great job just sad it wasn't done by "castle"

worse than I expected

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Not really.

Would you ever listen to anything by Richard Castle again?

I wasn't expecting great literature, but honestly, this was worse than I expected. The level of writing was lacking, the storyline was lame and predictable.

Was Heat Wave worth the listening time?

No.

Any additional comments?

I will not continue with the series

It's like Castle!

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes the TV series Castle. Same storyline, same characters with different names. I didn't like the narrator. He didn't do different voices well and I just didn't like his tone. I did like that I could picture the characters from Castle as these characters since I really like the show.

I like the TV series

I like the TV series but the narrator is so horrible I couldn't tell you if the book was any good. He spoke in a monotone and never changed the voice for any of the characters. I made it about 4 hours and had no idea what the book was even about. Decided to just stop. After watching the TV series and then listening to this guy, I wonder if the TV series is even remotely based on the books. I see that there is a different narrator for some of the other books. Maybe I'll give the author another chance and try one of those.

I love this series

I am extremely disappointed that books 2-4 are not on here, that's a huge chunk of the series missing. I would buy the rest but I refuse to buy the others since I cannot finish the beginning of the series.

The entire book Would recommend

I liked how it connects to the tv series and how it flows and how it was written .

Good book terrible narrator

I love the TV show and I liked to listen to the book. I decided to also read the book and it was much better with the voices in my head. Many times the narrator makes the book but not in this case. He did not annoy me enough to quit listening but I will not listen to another Richard Castle book if he narrates it. I think a woman would have been a better reader since the lead was a woman.

OK, the TV show is better

I don't say very often that the show or movie is better than the book. In this case the show was first and then some one thought, lets write the book that was written in the show.
I thought that it was a interesting idea,and so I bought the book. The narrator was fine with me, descent voice, tone and inflextion.
The story was good. it mirrored the show, a writer doing a ride-a-long with a cop. In the show the writer is very witty and much better at helping to solve or having ideas to help solve the murder. In the show the two main charactors haven't gone to bed, yet. they have to string it along with the interpersonal conflicts, once they sleep together in tv the show ends soon after. In a book they always have to have a sex scene or two right?
So I enjoyed the listen. You might also.

Missing the Dedication

Okay, so any one that watches the show should know what the book is going to be like. I like the wackiness of the show and the book mirrors it. Good listen if you like to relax and have fun.