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.

Not like the show.......

Reading the book probably would have been a better choice. I'm a fan of the show and it was confusing hearing a voice different from Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic. The narrator tried but missed the mark and sounded boring and old. It would be great to get Fillion and Katic for the audio of the next book!

I liked it

Where does Heat Wave rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Full of castle like humour.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

Enjoyed the story, but it wasn't a edge of your seat kind of story.

What does Johnny Heller bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Good narraion and story telling ability.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Any additional comments?

Loved it. Full of Richard Castle fun

Audio version better than the book

Was Heat Wave worth the listening time?

I have the Kindle version of Heat Wave and I was never able to finish reading it because it dragged on. The audio version was so much better than the actual book. I would recommend the Audible version over the reading version (first book I have ever recommended this way).

Just like the show

I really like the Castle TV Show. So I tried this because it was a essentially a short listen. It was very good. While I like Scott Brick it is good to hear other narrators and Johnny Heller did a very good job especially conveying the sarcasm between the characters. About half way through I was pretty sure who did it, but it was great escapism.