Recent Reads: HEAT WAVE

The preposterously silly HEAT WAVE, by Richard Castle, is precisely what you think it will be. Rick Castle, if you don't know, is the crime novelist played by Nathan Fillion on the TV show "Castle". HEAT WAVE stars Nikki Heat, the character Castle has based on Kate Beckett, the "real life" police detective he's following around and studying for his next series. You get the idea. :)

There are two splendid things about this book. One is that it reads very much like an episode of Castle, with very similar interactions between the characters, who are all obviously (and deliberately obviously) based on the TV show characters.

The other utterly great thing, though, is that HEAT WAVE is *exactly* the kind of book that Richard Castle the character would write. Everything about it is exactly what you'd expect from Castle, which I think takes a rather deft (ghost-writing) hand. I'll have to read the next one, because that was just pure silly fun. :)