Storm Front (Derrick Storm #4)
✨✨ handfuls of Fairy dust
With the help of a beautiful and mysterious foreign agent--with whom Storm is becoming romantically and professionally entangled--he discovers that Volkov's treachery has embroiled a wealthy hedge-fund manager and a U.S. senator.
In a heated race against time, Storm chases Volkov's shadow from Paris, to the lair of a computer genius in Iowa, to the streets of Manhattan, then through a bullet-riddled car chase on the New Jersey Turnpike. In the process, Storm uncovers a plot that could destroy the global economy--unleashing untold chaos--which only he can stop.
Do you want to know how much I like Richard Castle and the whole Castle Series? I bought this damn book. Was it worth it? Not really.
For starters, I've never liked spy books, why I thought I'd like this one was beyond me, but I was curious so I figured I'd give it a shot. Secondly, I made the big blunder of buying book #4 in the series and not #1. Did I miss a lot of plot devices? Hell yeah cause I only understood half of what was happening in his personal life and the other half was about finance, so this book basically went over my head.
The other problem was the writing. While it wasn't terribly bad, and it felt like it was being written like Richard Castle, it felt ACTUALLY like it was a written by a soap opera character. Not to mention that weird cross over with the characters from Nikki heat was annoying as well. In the TV show the Derrick Storm series was done, Derrick had been killed off, so what the hell? Also it felt super campy that Rook and Derrick hit it off, of course they would they're both based off of Castle for godsake. And then Volkov being a villain in both this book and the TV show, come on now!
I think from now on I'll stick to the Nikki Heat series, that's more my style.
