Title: Chasing Fire
Author: Nora Roberts
Length: 480 pages
Genre: Fiction
Publisher/Date: Putnam, 2011
Source: Library copy
About the Book
There’s little as thrilling as firefighting – at least to Rowan Tripp. The Missoula smoke jumpers are in Rowan’s blood: her father is a legend. She’s been fighting fires since her eighteenth birthday. At this point, returning to the wilds of Montana for the season feels like coming home, even with reminders of the partner she lost last season still lingering.
Fortunately, this year’s rookie crop is one of the strongest ever, and Gulliver Curry’s one of the best. He’s also a walking contradiction, a hotshot firefighter with a big vocabulary and a winter job at a kids’ arcade.
Everything is thrown off balance when a dark presence lashes out against Rowan, looking to blame someone for last year’s tragedy. Rowan knows she can’t complicate things with Gull – any distractions in the air or on the ground could mean the end – but if she doesn’t find someone she can lean on, she may not make it through the summer. . . .
My Thoughts
I’m not sure if it’s fair to read a romance/suspense novel and then complain that the story drags a bit or that the whodunit is too predictable – it sort of comes with the territory, I suppose. Although I thought the book could stand to lose a hundred pages or so, I did enjoy getting to know the characters and learning a bit about smoke jumping.
Note: This is Book #62 of my 2011 Reads (master list here).
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I have found the last few stand alone Nora’s to be hit or miss whereas before I bought them all. I’ve been getting them from the library. This one I didn’t finish. Simply wasn’t interested enough and have lots of other things I want to read.