Naked Heat

Title: Naked Heat

Author: Richard Castle

Rating: 5 stars

This is the second book in the Nikki Heat series (the first being Heat Wave). If you happen to watch ABC's Castle then you know that Richard Castle is actually the character played by Nathan Fillion. The book series is the companion books to the TV series that Castle is writing.

I tried to read this unbiasly, not to be blinded by the fact that I love the TV series and I loved the first book, but it didn't happen. While reading this book, I  could not get the TV characters of Kate Beckett and Rick Castle out of my mind as Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook. Then again, I guess that's the point since that's how the books are supposed to be written.

Detective Heat and A-list Journalist Jameson Rook reunite for another case, or maybe it's two cases since they seem to have an off connection. 

All in all, I loved this book not because of Castle, but because  of the quality writing of the ghost writer. You can feel the sexual tension between Heat and Rook. You can feel the anguish. I believe that when a reader can feel the emotions of a character, then the writer has done his/her job.

However, on the down side, since it is a mystery/cop procedural in the spirit of the TV show and other shows such as Law and Order, some parts are rather predictable. Though while I made my assumptions early on in the book, I was thrown for a loop the more I read.

So just like every other crime drama, you'll have your ups and downs.

I recommend this to anyone and everyone who watches Castle and/or has read the first book in the series, Heat Wave. If you haven't done either, then I still recommend the series if you're into that kind of this.