Craig, Jamie: Chasing Silver
Chasing SilverWriter: Jamie Craig
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Pages: 282
I put off getting this book for a LONG time, and I do mean a LONG time. I mean, look at that cover! Not that's poorly done, but I'm tired of seeing such eye-candy on covers of books, particularly those aimed at women. COME ON.
But I got on a Juno Books kick a while back, so between that and curiosity (this being the first Juno book that had even a HINT of SF), I picked it up. Decided to read it now because I wanted something fast and easy to get through, and trust me, fast and easy to get through it is.
I'm going to be honest: this book DOES NOT BELONG in the SF/Fantasy section. I don't care who published and what their reasons were, and I don't care that there's a time travel element involved. Do you see Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series shelved in SF/F? No. But it's time travel. What about Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife? It's one of the THE BEST time-travel stories I've ever read! But no, it's not shelved in SF/F either. Both of the previous mentioned books are shelved in "fiction," and rightly so: they attract a slightly broader audience than would normally frequent the SF/F shelves.
So where does Chasing Silver belong? Not in SF/F. Not fiction either. No, this book deserves a spot on the Romance shelves, and even though I'm no expert on the genre, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it specifically needs to be shelved in Erotica.
There is nothing, not even the time-travel, about this book that excuses it being shelved in SF/F. Take out the sex, and it's romance thriller/suspense with time travel. That's it. And I'm stressing this whole genre thing so heavily because I want potential readers to know EXACTLY what they're getting when they pick up this book, and also because book two, Touching Silver, didn't get picked up by the bookstores and was therefore canceled, and you know what? I think the first book's shelving is why.
The premise: Remy is on a heist in Washington, DC trying to make a frantic getaway when she's suddenly transported back in time to the year 2008, in LA. Not only does she have to reconcile her new surroundings with how she's used to living, but she also has to reconcile her feelings and desires for the man who finds her. More important, she's still running from her "futuristic" past, and if she's not careful, it's going to catch up with her.
Spoilers ahead.
( Chasing Silver )
My Rating
Worth the Cash: IF, and only IF, you're looking for what amounts to as sex, sex, and more sex with a splash of thriller/suspense and time travel mixed in. It's fun and it's fluff***, in a good way, but don't let the SF/F shelving fool you into thinking this book is something it's not. I'm sorry to see that Juno won't be publishing the sequel, but I do hope the authors (Jamie Craig is actually two people, yo) find a way to publish it, even as an e-book. It's fun, and if you're into sex, sex, and more sex (with a time travel twist), you'll find it fun too.
Next up: Storm Front by Jim Butcher
*** = Let me define "fluff" here, just to be safe. In this case, any time there was a chance to complicate the plot or create conflict, there was usually a sex scene. I enjoyed the story, but there could've been a LOT more done with it, and maybe it's because I'm no critical reader of erotica (I don't know what to compare it too), I can't see the sex scenes as escalating or standing out from one another, except the last two. That's that.





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