Name: Naked Heat
ISBN: 9781401324025

Richard Castle

The best-selling mystery author of Heat Wave continues the story of tough and sexy NYPD homicide detective Nikki Heat and hotshot reporter Jameson Rook on the trail of a murderer in Manhattan.

Naked Heat

Sarah Sammis

Naked Heat by Richard Castle is the second in the Nikki Heat series inspired by the television mystery Castle. This time a gossip columnist has been murdered in her home and the search for her killer leads to more deaths and false leads.

When I read it at the end of last year I liked it. The Castle books are pretty easy to read. If I were one to call any sort of reading a guilty pleasure, I'd put the Castle books in that category.

Now though that I'm looking back on the book, it hasn't stuck with me as well as the first one has. What has remained is my appreciation of the tougher mystery but the desire for a longer book with better fleshed out characters. Also the sex scenes either need to go or be better written.

Izza

The Caskett FEELS...or should I say Nikkison!

Once again i’m OBSESSED.  The happiness this is bringing me is INSANE

Taylor Sweeton

Tracie McMurray

Even better than the first one! Kind of a complex plot.

While this was a vast improvement from the first Nikki Heat book, it still left me wanting more.

There were several plot points that I felt went ignored, or forgotten until the last minute. They all somehow tied neatly into the ending with no real explanation as to how they got there or what the reasoning was for them (namely the romance between Nikki and some characters). It just left too many questions and not enough explanation or a good reason for no explanation.

That said, the pace of the book was so much better than the first installment. You jumped right into the case(s) and followed everyone, with the same feeling as being in a Castle episode. The case was interesting and there was enough information to pick up on so that when it tied up at the end, you could see the result if you paid attention, but it wasn't so obvious you felt like you knew it in the first few chapters.

I wouldn't buy another book in this series, and wouldn't recommend it to someone unless they loved Castle to the point that they could read a mediocre book and be happy.

Laura Carminati

** spoiler alert **
           Il caso molto interessante, alla fine non riuscivo a smettere di leggere per sapere il finale, ma lo trovo un po' ripetitivo per quanto riguarda "il pericolo" in cui si trovano Nikki e Rook, cioè nel primo volume Nikki si trova a lottare con un russo (? non ricordo bene) nella propria abitazione e anche qui si trova a lottare con un texano; Rook alla fine del primo libro si trova in pericolo e anche qui. Per il resto nulla da dire, come detto mi è piaciuto molto.