Bad plotting. Story that meandered and was confusing in it's inability to resolve things sensibly. The characters read like caricatures of characters that are already fairly 2 dimensional on the TV show. Michael lacks any sense of humor and Fiona and Sam...well they don't do the TV characters any justice. The total lack of getting the "tone" of the show right in the book was disappointing. Seriously felt like this was a novel that hadn't been finished and the writer shoved in these characters an...

Burn Notice: The Fix by Tod Goldberg is based on the 7 year USA Network Series created by Max Nix. I was slightly apprehensive about the novel, but I needn't have been. Goldberg stays true to the characters I love - Michael Weston, Fiona Glenanne ("Michael, can I shoot her?") Sam Axe, Madeline and Nate Weston. When you're a spy who has been burned, you don't have any home other than the one you're dumped in. You have no money, no assets - all are frozen. You have no support either, unless you co...

Burn Notice is one of my favorite shows as it almost always keeps me engaged. The varying levels of humor compliments it quite nicely, and let's be honest, watching Michael Westen's ingenuity, though not always realistic, is entertaining. Burn Notice: The Fix is an attempt at taking a great show and expanding it into book form, with mixed results.The plot is a bit muddled; somehow the primary and secondary plots were loosely tied together, but the book fails to establish the connection clearly a...

I enjoy all of Tod Goldberg's Burn Notice books, but that's probably because I love the TV show. If you're a fan of the show, definitely check out the books. They read like an episode, and the thing that sets these companion books apart is the writing style. Goldberg has everyone's voice nailed down so well it's hard to believe he's not a writer for the show. Every time a character speaks, you can hear the actor speaking in your head. The plot is sometimes a little muddled - as they are on the s...

Tod did this one up well. From the voice overs by Michael to the descriptions of the characters, this book has the feel of Burn Notice down. No spoilers I'll share, but this book has it's fair bit of show tie-in. The mother, the brother, the relationship, and the angst of the burned spy. There are guns, explosions, and sexiness. I really enjoyed the play on Michael's relationships with the women in his life. I felt like I could even hear Sam's voice in this book. I look forward to more work by T...

If you're a fan of Burn Notice the TV show on USA Network, then you'll love this tie-in novel. The plot, the scene cuts, the dialogue...it's all written in the style of the show. Book!Micheal especially jumps off the page; I could hear Jeffrey Donovan's voice snarking almost every line. An enjoyable read!

This is the first of the Burn Notice novels and, from what I've read, also the best. It fits the tone and style of the show to a tee. Good plot, too, which sometimes can't really be said for the later books in the series.

a good amount of funny narration & dialogue and I followed the plot just as well as I followed any episode of burn notice, which was generally not well. but that's on me. I liked the show for the explosions and this book needed more. 3.5 stars mostly because Michael Westen does not think in run-on sentences and Fiona absolutely does not need anyone telling her what teargas does to bare skin. also found Michael uncharacteristically snobby and a tad reckless. but as I don't have internet or the dv...

Fun Read for Burn Notice FansWe have the full seven-season DVD collection of "Burn Notice", and like many others during this pandemic season choose to binge on Michael, Fiona, Sam, Madeleine, Nate and Berry. I read this story during season 5, so I miss Jesse, but will assume he makes his appearance in one of the four later books.

Burn NoticeLong time fan of the show while it was on, very comparable. Good read, can't wait to read the rest of the series.

Burn Notice is a television show I discovered about a year ago, and although my taste usually runs toward Masterpiece Theater or science documentaries on PBS, I found myself looking for all the reruns of it that I could find. It ran 6 (?) seasons and ended in October. Some people enjoy B movies because they are fun and non-pretentious, or enjoy "guilty secret" viewing, like soaps or talk shows. This one is mine. I like it for the ensemble acting, action sequences (something gets blown up in ever...

Burn Notice is one of my favorite shows. I liked the idea of a book to go along with the shows, leaving enough information out so that you could read it within a season without having too many things relying on what episode you watched first. The style of writing was similar to the show voice over, sarcastically witty and very knowledgeable.But once you got down to the real action of the book, my liking for it took a sharp downturn. It was difficult to understand what exactly was happening as th...

Tod Goldberg does a great job of capturing Michael’s voice and, since the voice-overs on the show give us a sense of experiencing things through Michael’s POV anyway, having the story here told that way worked well. Another reason his ability to capture Michael was so important. Fans of the show wouldn’t have made it past the first chapter if he’d had it wrong. Tod also managed to do what the writers are doing so well this season, weave the burn notice story in and around the victim of the week

This is an original novel based on the recent popular spy drama series, Burn Notice (which aired in the summers of 2007 and 2008 on the USA network and returns in January 2009 with more new episodes). Goldberg manages to take an extremely stylized TV series and capture much of that feel on the printed page. This novel makes extensive use of main character Michael Westen's "on-screen" narration -- a tribute to such 1980s series as Magnum, P.I., where the hero keeps up a running monologue to us in...

The Fix was an enjoyable read for anyone who is a fan of the tv series. The author did a great job capturing the ton of the show complete with all the fun spy facts we learn via Westen's clever inner monologue. The dialogue between the main characters were spot on and the story flowed just like an episode. I'd recommend the book to anyone who enjoys the show. Fans of the espionage genre who have never seen the show may get lost in the character relationship subtext but Tod does a good job of pro...

Reading "Burn Notice: The Fix" is a lot like watching the t.v. show that it is based on. And that is a very good thing. Tod Goldberg successfully captures the voice of the heroes of the show. He writes from the perspective of Michael Westin and gets it exactly right, down to the dry wit and matter-of-fact explanations of spy-tech. However, he also finds room in the story to give us a little more insight into the character by expanding on some of his thoughts that might not get vocalized in the s...

(FYI I tend to only review one book per series, unless I completely change my mind on a series, so want to change my scoring down a lot)How I rate Stars: 5* = I loved (must read all I can find by the author) 4* = I really enjoyed (got to read all the series and try other books by the author). 3* = I enjoyed (I will continue to read the series) or3* = Good book just not my thing (I realised I don't like the genre or picked up a kids book to review in error.)All of the above scores means I would r...

I got this book because I love the series its based on, Burn Notice. It was really neat that they added stuff about his childhood that they don't get into with the series on the TV. The writer didn't get into too much description either, which was rather refreshing. I especially enjoyed the fact that they swore in the book. I enjoy it when adult books talk like adults do and they don't have to edit their words. Not saying that I am the type of person that swears a lot but it's something that adu...

Fun & True To CharactersNormally, I don't buy novelizations of movies or TV shows or books inspired by the same because the "voice" is seldom the same as the original visual production. I do make exceptions though -- like the books Lee Goldberg has written for Monk, Diagnosis Murder, and others.Since Tod is Lee's brother, and writing talent seems to run in that family, I decided to pick up a copy of The Fix by Tod Goldberg, the first in what I hope will be a long Burn Notice series of books.The

Burn Notice: The Fix takes place somewhere in the second half of the first season. It does a good job of capturing the characters as they were at that point in the show and It follows the very episodic nature of the show at that time.The best way to explain the book is to say that it's a filler episode. It's not a mid-season cliffhanger or a finale. What you get is Micheal and the team taking down some bad guys in typical fashion. What you don't get is any sort of emotional or overarching plot d...