Review: A Raging Storm by "Richard Castle"

[miko]

This is a novella tie in to the Castle television series (hence the quotes on the author) - the second in this little novella trilogy. Each novella follows directly, so it's hard to really separate the first (A Brewing Storm) from the second - and, I imagine, the third which I haven't read yet.

Overall: It was fine. I enjoyed it enough - no real mystery, since there's POV writing from both the main character (Derrick Storm) and the various villains - but it was a quick and pleasant enough read as a spy story went. I think most of the amusement that comes from this is the feeling that yeah, Storm could totally be Castle's wish-fulfillment character.

My only frown during it was that it got a little unnecessarily descriptive of gore at one point... just felt out of place given that the rest of the novella read very lightly. Perhaps a misguided attempt at "grit", I don't know. It might just be me, though - for context, I've nearly given up on Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series because there's just too much nauseating description for me. As best I can tell, it's not that I'm terribly sensitive to the content since I read forensic and medieval books with equal or worse gore... it's just something to do with the way it's described by certain authors.