A Brewing Storm: A Derrick Storm Short [Kindle Edition]

Richard Castle (Author)

Book Description

Part One of the Derrick Storm trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle, available exclusively as an eBook short.

When Derrick Storm needed to leave the CIA, he couldn't just retire. He had to fake his own death. So when his former boss calls in an old favor that will bring Storm out of early retirement and back to Washington to investigate a high-profile kidnapping, he knows there must be more at stake than the life of a senator's son. Working alongside, but not exactly with, bombshell FBI investigator April Showers, Storm must make sense of a confusing flurry of ransom notes and a complicated web of personal relationships and international politics. He'll get to the bottom of the kidnapping, but the storm is still brewing . . .

Product Details

• File Size: 559 KB
• Print Length: 25 pages
• Publisher: Hyperion (May 1, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B007A577SQ
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,787 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars A fun short read May 5, 2012

By Susan Jurist

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The book starts out as a bad adventure novel written by a good author pretending to be bad. Once the author stopped with the shlock set up, it became a well written (though brief) spy-ish novel that kept me reading till it was over.

It's entertaing to me that so many reviewers felt they were being ripped off because of the book's short length. C'mon - you are reading a book written by a fictional character, and you expect that the book is written to be anything but a money-making enterprise?

While this book isn't as funny as the Nikki Heat books, it works well as an hour or so of escapist reading. Best of all, it'll give Nathan Fillion something new to star in once "Castle" is finished!

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A Storm Brewing with Readers May 5, 2012

By Marvin Allan Williams

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Some readers take offense to a book being serialized. It used to be common practice for upcoming books to be serialized in magazines such as Look, but then I'm old enough to remember that. Regardless, I liked the story-line and look forward to the next episode.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars First Part in a 3 part series May 4, 2012

By Lewis

Format:Kindle Edition

I'm pretty sure this is the first part to a 3 part novella style Derrick Storm book. It looks like A Raging Storm will be the second part and there is an unknown named 3rd part Untitled Derrick Storm 3. So don't get all worked up, the other 2 parts are coming soon, and this is meant to be here.

49 of 65 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Not the entire book! This is just a promo you're paying for May 3, 2012

By Snaildarter

Format:Kindle Edition

This "book" is just a long promo for the book coming out later. It doesn't even have a complete ending. It is deceptive for this to be sold as a complete product when, in fact, the publisher is merely using it as a teaser to get people to buy the whole book.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing May 11, 2012

By E. Carley

Format:Kindle Edition

Am I the only one who knew this was the first part of a trilogy? I'm finding it hard to get worked up over paying $2 for the first third of a book. At the very least, my payment encourages ABC and Amazon to continue to think outside the box and try some creative ideas.

What did irritate me is the content of the story itself. I was looking forward to an intelligent, thrilling, and fun literary ride with exciting characters and snappy dialogue. I got none of the above. Well, intelligent, maybe. But the story was so dry and uninspired that it took me over week to get around to finishing the last two chapters. (By contrast, the Nikki Heat books have all been devoured in less than 24 hours!) So here's hoping the next two installments kick up the storytelling to appropriate Castle levels. Because this story, regardless of the length or the cliffhanger, was a huge disappointment.

17 of 23 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a full book May 3, 2012

By Carlos Centeno Jr.

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If there would have been an ending I probably would have liked it. What they don't tell you in the description is that it is very short and more of an introduction to another book. Really, it just seems like the publisher was been dishonest in how this was presented. If you want to read it wait until the next one comes out in July, otherwise you won't remember the intro. Although, who knows maybe the next one will just the middle of a story.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars misleading June 1, 2012

By r123

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I understand what a serialized book is and that's fine if they want to sell it like that. But I preordered this book months ago and they did not say anything about it being like this back then. When it was first made available for preorder they promoted it like it was any other full length Richard Castle novel. And I seriously think I paid more than it's selling for now. I remember it costing like 9.99 or something like that. If it had been this cheap I would have probably realized it wasn't full length. Maybe they didn't decide to serialize it until after they had already put it out for preorder? Anyway I understand that the description now says it is a short and part of a three part novel but when it was available for preorder they did not tell me that.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Feeble, poorly written, overused cliches, and so on. May 24, 2012

By Micki Clark

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I went in to this fully aware that it was a short (not a full book). This review takes that into account.

CONS:
- Slap-you-in-the-face cliches and ridiculous character names. Derrick STORM, meet APRIL SHOWERS. Oh, look, here's the top-heavy girlfriend Samantha TOPPERS. Her boyfriend, who's not interesting enough to actually meet before he's killed off, is Matthew DULL. If it was done creatively, this might actually be funny...but when the author has to point out it's a dumb joke, that just makes it that much more pathetic. And if you're going to go on and on about the man making feeble attempts to get a woman in bed, make it more than a one-liner some drunk would deliver in a bar.

- Inner monologue is distracting. You switch from the narration to inner monologue, which would be fine if there was a sharper transition than just the simple use of italics versus regular type. Also, if you want to sell your readers on the brilliance of your character's deductive skills, don't make him sound like a self-absorbed idiot.

The writing is full of feeble attempts at humor and attempts to be sexy, which fall far from the mark. The characters are TOO stereotypical and TOO cliched, the jokes TOO forced. I'm actually glad this was a short that I paid less than $2 for--if it had been a full book, I wouldn't have finished it.