I love to read and right now my favorite books to relax by are Christian suspense or mystery. Thankfully Bethany House through NetGalley will occasionally let me review a book, giving my honest opinion for a free copy.
How can you not love a mystery that takes place in Alaska on a cruise ship?! Stranded by Dani Pettrey is the third book in Dani's Alaskan Courage series. And as I haven't made it to Alaska, or on a cruise ship I enjoyed this setting for a book.
I read the third book, Stranded, before reading the second book, Shattered. I had already enjoyed the first book a few months back called Submerged, which by the way was awesome as well. The first time through I was a little lost on some of the relationships but I still enjoyed the book not missing too much without reading the second book. But if you want to enjoy the whole series, following the McKenna family and their adventures I would recommend starting at book 1. I went back and bought book 2 to fill in some of the questions I had, and I loved how the three books beautifully fit together.
Stranded, starts out with Abby, an undercover reporter being in trouble and finds herself thrown overboard. She is rescued- but she disappears after that. Abby had invited her friend a "retired" undercover reporter, Darcy St. James (first introduced in book 2) to join her on the cruise ship to help with the mystery. Darcy can't find Abby on the ship- and starts to piece together that her friend had disappeared and must have found out something big to have gotten herself in so much trouble!
Darcy is soon joined on the ship by Gage McKenna who will be leading the adventure excursions and she and Gage are thrown together once again. Darcy finds herself in many adventures along the way... maybe even an adventure of the heart. The other members of the McKenna family also get involved, and Landon and Jake as well.
I love when books are written in series that keep on developing the lives of a family, and I love the McKenna family. Dani does a great job of making you feel for the characters, and gives you many moments when you just have to read the next page or you just won't be sleeping that night without knowing what will happen next.
Dani Pettrey's books are awesome and I hope there might be a fourth in the series so I can find out more about the McKenna family, and see what adventure and mystery they might get themselves caught up in.
