"Heat Wave" - Advance Book Review

The key with the aspect of the Richard Castle book “Heat Wave”, which acts as a companion piece to the ABC series, is that it gets right to the point. It also allows the characters to go a little farther than where network shows are allowed to go. This 10 chapter advance on the actual novel given quickly after a visit to the actual “Castle” set at Raleigh Studios speaks to what the aspect of the storylines might be. In all actuality it plays to the show's strengths. In all fairness though, the initial 5 chapter are basing up to what those who have already learned in the show's first season already knew. It would seem certain points were directly lifted from the scripts so many of the thoughts one would have seen before.The difference, and this is obviously always the way with novels, is that you can see the interior life of a character, in this case Nikki Heat. The grand play as the story moves on is that you begin wondering as it hits the end of the 10th chapter is if this is simply Castle's fantasy or a key of what is to come on the series. Certain points have rung true, like the moments in the poker game. But it is the elements like what cannot be shown on television like the flashback murder of Heat's mother (which is a direct reflection from the series) or the eventual climax of the first chapters (which I won't give away).Needless to say, the book promises in its eventual form an interesting companion piece to the series. Having now met all the actors who embody the roles from Nathan Fillion as Castle to Stana Katic as Beckett as well as their two cops on their team Ochoa and Raley, the one thing that maintains across the board is the voice of humor. It will be interesting when it is eventually revealed the aspect of the ghost writer who in all practices seems very familiar with New York. In terms of a tease as an advance I give “Heat Wave” a 3 out of 5.