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Chasing Silver

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Story Brief:
Remy lived in foster homes and on the streets in the year 2082 in Washington D.C. Kirsten is a vicious cop who has personal issues with Remy, killed Remy's friends and wants to kill Remy. Remy steals some antique coins, one of which transports her back in time to the year 2008 in Los Angeles. Kirsten has a second coin which allows her to transport to the same place and time as Remy. Kirsten now hunts for Remy in 2008 LA.

Meanwhile, Nathan, a former cop, is a bounty hunter in 2008 L.A. He is after Tian. Tian and his thugs want to kill Nathan. When Remy is transported to LA, she arrives in the warehouse Nathan is in at the time. She and Nathan immediately fall in lust with each other. The rest of the story is about good guys chasing bad guys and vice versa. Someone gets kidnapped and tortured, and later gets saved.

Reviewer's Opinion:
The outline of the story, the characters and the plot sound pretty good, but the conversations and writing style had no spark. I wasn't surprised or delighted. It reminded me of the made-for-tv cop shows, all being churned out weekly and similar to each other. It had good fundamentals, but it was too predictable. Maybe the characters could have used a little more personality quirk or style. For those interested, there were a lot of hot and steamy sex scenes.

CAUTION SPOILERS:
I never did fully understand how the magic coins worked. The legend was vague. Nathan burned his hand touching one, but Remy and Kirsten did not burn their hands. I didn't understand why Gabriel shot the people he did at the end. I'm curious as to how Gabriel learned about the coins, and wondered if he had Kirsten's coin. I was also confused about why Gabriel just let certain people walk away at the end without killing them. I don't have to have everything explained for me to enjoy a good story, but I thought I'd mention these confusions.

Story length: 274 pages. Sexual language: strong. Number of sex scenes: 7. Length of sex scenes: 1 short scene (1 page) and 6 long scenes (from 3 to 10 pages). Setting: 2082 Washington D.C. and 2008 Los Angeles. Copyright: 2007. Genre: romantic action, suspense and time travel.

I found this book in the Sci-fi section and not the romance section, and it looked like an interesting premise: a person traveling to 2008 from 80 years in the future, bounty hunter, and mystery coin-OK. The first couple of chapters are fine- interesting even, but after that it starts going into far too much sex (think rabbits) and far too little story. I lost interest and started skimming around page 100 and just gave up around page 237. For me, the plot was lost in all of the sex, and I was unable to become interested in the characters.

I'd purchased "Chasing Silver" on a friend's recommendation. For a few weeks, it sat on my TBR pile...each time I picked it up, then put it down in lieu of another book in the pile. Finally yesterday morning, I quit procrastinating & decided to read "Chasing Silver". I can honestly tell you that I'm glad I did. This book was so much fun! Suspenseful plot, great characters (finally a female lead that's NOT a member of the "too stupid to live" club unlike many other romances!), hunky lead man, a touch of the paranormal (time travel), uber hot sex scenes...all in all, a great read! Can't wait for the next in the series coming out in the summer of '08!

Chasing Silver by Jamie Craig is a time travel romance of the very hot and steamy variety. I really liked the gutsy heroine who, as she says, "doesn't do damsel", and the hero who hasn't let himself feel anything in way too long. The device that started the whole time-travelling jaunt in the first place, well, let's hope there's more explanation for that in book two (or three) of the Silver Maiden trilogy.

The year is 2085. Remy Capra is running for her life from Kirsten Henryk, Senator Henryk's daughter and paranoid enforcer. Kirsten does have something to enforce in Remy's case. Remy is a gang member and small-time thief, and Remy has just stolen something important from the Senator's house in DC: one of the coins known as a Silver Maiden. In what Remy was sure were the last seconds of her life, Remy clutched the coin as wished for safety.

The year is 2010. Nathan Pierce, ex-cop and bounty hunter, is in a warehouse in Culver City, chasing down a bounty jumper known as Tian. He almost has him, when a severely injured woman falls out of the sky, raining blood, glass and small explosions. His bounty escapes, and Nate is left with Remy Capra bleeding all over him, trying to pretend she isn't so wounded she can barely stand.

Neither of them wants to go to the cops. Nate's lost his bounty. Again. Remy has no ID in 2010. She won't even be born for 50 more years. And she doesn't know yet whether Kirsten is still after her or whether she has a chance to make a fresh start. Neither of them starts out willing to trust the other, even a little bit. Nate was set up and betrayed by the last woman he trusted. Remy is a child of the gangs in the DC she comes from. And would anyone believe her story? But their attraction to each other proves stronger than their doubts and fears.

When Kirsten does follow Remy, using another Silver Maiden coin as passage back in time, Nate, Remy and Nate's partner Isaac must set aside all their misgivings about each other and their past, whenever that past might have been, in order to fight for a chance, any chance, at any future at all.

Escape Rating C: This story was either too long, or too short. On the one hand, we don't get enough about why Kirsten was so gung-ho to wipe Remy out. There was definitely some old, bad blood between those too, but we don't know enough. There was something personal on Kirsten's part. Remy was trying to survive.

I empathized with both Remy and Nate as characters. They had both been to dark places, and they understood that about each other. They had a chance to make each other better, but neither was made out of sweetness and light. And they wouldn't have worked together if they had been.

I'm very glad that one of the later books is Isaac's story. He deserves a happy ending of his own. And I really want to know what his deal is.

The reason I said the books might be too short is that the legend of the Silver Maiden coins, what they do, why they do it, how they work, who knows about them, is still unclear at the end of the book. Remy and Kirsten both made them work. The coin reacts to Nate. Gabriel, another baddie, knows about them. But the readers need more details!

On the other hand, the reason the books might be too long is that there are probably too many detailed sex scenes. I had to think about why I thought this. Romance is interesting, because it's a story. How did they meet? How long did they resist the attraction? What made them give in? Unresolved sexual tension is interesting because how and why they resist is a story. The first time a couple kisses or has sex or makes love in a romance is note-worthy. Possibly even the second time, since it should be different. In a story, the first time there are emotions involved and not just body parts is definitely note-worthy. Break-up and make-up sex, but because of the emotions, not the "tab a goes into slot b", no matter how you dress it up, or undress it.

The only romance writer who has been able to successfully write an unlimited number of sex scenes involving the same two partners is J.D. Robb. And only because she talks more about how Dallas and Roarke feel than about what they do.

Review courtesy of Sizzling Hot Books

Time travel has never been one of the favorite things but Chasing Silver caught my eye and I thought I would give it a try.

Chasing Silver starts off with a bang. The attraction between Nathan and Remy is intense and fast. Maybe a little to fast for me, but thankfully Nathan and Remy add their past into the relationship and that supplies some much needed depth to the characters.

Even with the relationship starting so intensely between Remy and Nathan I thought it could develop nicely, however I never seen the development I was hoping for. I liked that both Nathan and Remy had a strong and rocky past. I think it made them stronger characters.

Overall I found Chasing Silver to be thrilling and suspenseful until the middle where I thought it stalled a little. Thankfully towards the end the pace picks back up to grab your attention again. I hate to say this but I think I would have find Chasing Silver as a more rewarding novella, instead of the full length novel. If Chasing Silver was a novel instead, I think the middle wouldn't have slowed and lost my interest.

Chasing Silver is a time travel romantic thriler action-packed drama ,with cat and mouse games .Its all about a young woman who travel in time from 2057 to present day and teams up with an ex-cop for action packed adventure with another time traveler on their heels ,looking for revenge from their previous encounter in the year 2057. Michael Tsapazis author of 'Zion and the Magic Sword'

I bought this book based on the cover synopsis. what a dissapointment. ametuerish writing. The plot might have made it, but got totally lost in the 'sex'. Come on guys, read Linnea Sinclair for the how to's of that venue. You might have fun doing this writing, but until you grow up and start writing for grown uos, your stuff is OFF my list

Chasing Silver is set in 2008 and yet the heroine, Remy Capra, is actually from 2082. When trying to escape from a corrupt policewoman, Kirsten Henryk, she found herself travelling back through time and across America to land unexpectedly in the middle of a firefight between a bounty hunter, Nathan Pierce, and the man he's trying to catch. Remy's time travel appears to have been caused by some special silver coins which she took from Kirsten and very soon she and Nathan realise that Kirsten has followed her in order to get them back.

Remy and Nathan have an instant attraction but Nathan's had some problems in his past with trusting a woman which means he finds it difficult to fully understand Remy. Remy, too, is very wary of cops or former cops and has always had to work on her own without backup. When Remy and Nathan find they are facing problems both from Kirsten and also from gang lords in Nathan's time they have to work together, alongside Nathan's former cop partner Isaac, to try to find their way out of the mess.

Part of the disappointment with this book was the relationship between Remy and Nathan which was rather one-dimensional (that dimension apparently being sex). The friendship between Nathan and Isaac was far more interesting because of the way it had weathered the disaster five years ago which caused Nathan to leave the LAPD. Kirsten never really worked as a scary woman and the gang lords were also too indistinct and rather cipher-like to feel fully threatening.

There was a reasonable amount of action in this story including kidnapping, gunfights and the rest but for this reader at least it wasn't very exciting and I found myself skim reading it towards the end.

Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book, www.curledup.com. © Helen Hancox 2008

Like another reviewer I put off reading this and am sorry I waited so long! I thought it was a great time travel read. I loved the heroine!

In 2007 former cop turned bounty hunter Nathan Pierce has trapped Tian in a Culver City warehouse when suddenly a blinding light appears; in the subsequent confusion the criminal escapes. In his place is twenty-five years old Remy Capra, a woman who appeared out of nowhere. Remy is shocked that she is no longer in DC. When they pass a newsstand she realizes she also is not in her time as she has somehow gone back seventy-five years. The headline also reminds her that in the future she is on the run having stole coins from US Senator Harrah whose daughter bad cop Kirsten pursues her.

When she tells Nathan her story after her ID contains an impossible birth date of 2057 and an unknown technology, he still assumes she is crazy except for the material of her clothing that cannot be found anywhere either. The pair is attracted to one another other; unaware that Kirsten is in this time too and has teamed up with Tian to retrieve her coins and kill Remy, and assist her new partner with eliminating Nathan too.

This time travel romantic thriller is filled with hot sex, action-packed drama, and a heroine who kicks butt. The tag team battles of two chicks paired with two modern day adversarial hunks are fun to follow as the tough guys seem soft compared to the future femme fatales. Team Jamie Craig creatively combines elements from mystery, romance, and sci fi to entertain readers with an exciting cat and mouse thriller.

Harriet Klausner