Book Review: Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World's Greatest Adventures by Nellie Huang,

Title: Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World's Greatest Adventures 

Author:  Nellie Huang

Stars: 4

Review:
DK Readers knows how to pull in young readers to discover the world and the greatest adventures.  The book will have readers coming back to this book as a reference as well as finding new information every times readers open the book. The book covers Ancient Greeks, Zheng, and some of the greatest explorers and some of the lesser known.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher DK Publishing for the advance copy of Nellie Huang Explorers.


Synopsis:
The book urge to explore the unknown has driven human progress. DK's Explorers tells the story of humanity's explorations, taking the reader into the lives of some of the most intrepid people ever known. Focusing on 50 of the world's greatest explorers, with shorter entries on 60 of their helpers and companions, the book is filled with first-person accounts in the explorers' own words, rare maps, specially commissioned photographs, and artworks re-create history's greatest expeditions. From trade and the search for lands to colonize, to scientific curiosity and missionary zeal, Explorers introduces history's most famous trail blazers-people whose courage opened frontiers, turned voids into maps, forged nations, connected cultures, and added to humankind's knowledge of the world by leaps and bounds.

Hardcover, 144 pages

Expected publication: September 3rd 2019 by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

About The Author:
https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_27%3ANellie+Huang&s=relevancerank&text=Nellie+Huang&ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1

Book Review: Beware the Darkness (Guardians of Eternity #14) by Alexandra Ivy

Title: Beware the Darkness (Guardians of Eternity #14) 

Author:  Alexandra Ivy

Star: 4 

Review:
I have to admit this readers isn't much for Supernatural romance but I really like Alexandra Ivy Mystery romance series.  
The story moves quickly with a mystery that is intertwined with the other in the series but first time readers of the series will be able to start with book 14 and know what is going on from beginning to end.
Readers of this series will enjoy this series.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher Lyrical Press for the advance copy of Alexandra Ivy Beware The Darkness

Synopsis:
There is only one thing more precious to vampire Tarak than his newfound freedom after five centuries of captivity, and that’s the promise of revenge. At last, he can destroy Riven, the merman who has drained his power in order to make himself king. But at the very moment when justice is a fang’s breadth away, Tarak’s quest is complicated by the beautiful mermaid princess who kept him sane and fed during his ordeal.
 
Waverly hoped that once Tarak escaped, he’d return to his own kind and enjoy the rest of his immortal life. She also hoped she might one day stop dreaming about the darkly handsome vampire. Instead, Tarak’s return draws Waverly into an unlikely alliance—and a passion that eclipses all her fantasies.
 
Hatred for Riven has sustained Tarak this long. But only Waverly’s love can give him the strength to claim eternity with her.

Expected publication: August 20th 2019 by Lyrical Press

About The Author:

I'm not exactly sure when I fell in love with books. Probably on my mother's knee listening to her read Dr. Seuss to me. I do remember that I was barely old enough to cross the street by myself when I discovered the delights of the local library. Could anything be more wonderful than spending summer days surrounded by stacks of Nancy Drew mysteries? Over the years I fell in love with Victoria Holt, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, and J.R.R. Tolkien just to name a few. I read poetry, essays, biographies, and plays. In fact, I read anything I could get my hands on. 

Years later (no, I'm not admitting how many) I'm still an avid reader, and my tastes are still as varied as they were in my youth, which I suppose helps to explain why I enjoy writing regency historicals under the name of Deborah Raleigh, as well as my contemporary paranormals as Alexandra Ivy. For now that is enough to keep me busy, but who knows what the future might hold!

I do have a few other loves in my life besides reading and writing, the most important being my unbelievably patient husband, David, and my two sons, Chance and Alexander. Without their constant support and belief in me, I never could have been able to follow my dreams. They are truly my heroes.

Book Review: A SEAL Never Quits (Texas Navy SEALs #1) by Holly Castillo

Title: A SEAL Never Quits (Texas Navy SEALs #1)

Author:  Holly Castillo

Stars: 3 1\2

Review:
The story has moments of being really good but than the author seems to get lost in the romance or details and readers are confused why the seal are working at a ranch.  Even though it is explained in the book many many many times but it really doesn't make since in the end.  The secondary story is very typical of a "Undercover Special Forces."
The story works but it doesn't flow well and lacks focus many different times.
Thank you for the copy from Netgalley and the publisher Sourcebook Casablanca  for a copy of Holly Castillo A Seal Never Quits.
For the beginning of a new series it doesn't hold most readers attention. 

Synopsis:
A SEAL is ready for anything...except losing his heart...

Lieutenant Amador "Stryker" Salas and his tight-knit Navy SEAL team are undercover on a Texas ranch and tasked with covert ops across the border. It's an assignment that requires all their skills, all their secrets, and all their know-how.

Anya Gutierrez, the local veterinarian, has been serving the ranch for years. She loves the animals and ranching life, and Stryker finds her a breath of fresh air in his otherwise rigidly disciplined existence.

When Anya gets caught in the crosshairs of a mission gone sideways, Stryker must tell her the truth about who he really is, risking everything to keep her out of harm's way, even if it destroys him..

Paperback, 352 pages

Expected publication: July 30th 2019 by Sourcebooks Casablanca

About The Author:

Holly grew up spending many lazy summer days racing her horses bareback in the Texas sun. But whenever Holly wasn't riding her horses or competing in horse shows, she was found with pen and paper in hand, writing out romantic love stories about Texas Heroes.

Today, Holly lives in a small community just south of San Antonio, with her husband and two children. On the family's ranch, surrounded by cattle during the day and hearing the howl of coyotes by night, Holly has endless inspiration for her writing. Her Texas Legacy series follows the adventures of a family during the Texas Revolution and subsequent years, and her new Romantic Suspense Series, Texas Navy SEALs, launches in July, 2019.

Book Review: The Seekers (Krewe of Hunters #28) by Heather Graham

Title:  The Seekers (Krewe of Hunters #28) 

Author: Heather Graham 

Stars: 5

Review:
This is one of three of the Kreawe Hunters series I have read. This can be read as a stand alone someone of the characters over lap from the other series but as always Heather Graham has the abilities to give readers everything they need without losing the story.
The story moves quickly from start to end. This time Ghost Hunters are seeking to find answers to a haunted building.
The romance between the two lead characters work as a intra romance the ending is a little too much but it is a insta romance.
The mystery will keep readers guessing no matter how many times readers think they know the killer or the reason it will change quickly many times.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher Mira for the advance copy of Heather Graham The Seekers.

Synopsis:
Kerri Wolf has joined the crew of The Seekers, a show that searches for paranormal phenomena, as they explore a supposedly haunted old inn on the road between Philadelphia and Harrisburg. The place is famous for its warm welcome—and infamous for being the site of an ax murder rampage in the 1920s. They’ve barely begun when a very real dead body is discovered in the basement. As a nonfiction author, Kerri is supposed to be the rational one, but she can’t explain a terrifying apparition that seems to be both a threat and a warning.

Former detective Joe Dunhill knows what she’s going through—the strange gift of being able to see and talk to the dead is a struggle he shares. A new member of the FBI’s Krewe of Hunters, he’s on the team investigating the disturbing death. The town is steeped in old-fashioned superstition, and the deeper Joe and Kerri plunge into the dark secrets of the inn, the closer they get to a devastating truth. Will a bloody history be repeated? Or can the spirits of the past reach out to stop a killer?

Kindle Edition, 384 pages

Expected publication: July 23rd 2019 by MIRA

About The Author:

New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Heather Graham majored in theater arts at the University of South Florida. After a stint of several years in dinner theater, back-up vocals, and bartending, she stayed home after the birth of her third child and began to write, working on short horror stories and romances. After some trial and error, she sold her first book, WHEN NEXT WE LOVE, in 1982 and since then, she has written over one hundred novels and novellas including category, romantic suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult, and Christmas holiday fare. She wrote the launch books for the Dell's Ecstasy Supreme line, Silhouette's Shadows, and for Harlequin's mainstream fiction imprint, Mira Books.

Heather was a founding member of the Florida Romance Writers chapter of RWA and, since 1999, has hosted the Romantic Times Vampire Ball, with all revenues going directly to children's charity.

She is pleased to have been published in approximately twenty languages, and to have been honored with awards frorn Waldenbooks. B. Dalton, Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur, Romantic Times, and more. She has had books selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild, and has been quoted, interviewed, or featured in such publications as The Nation, Redbook, People, and USA Today and appeared on many newscasts including local television and Entertainment Tonight.

Heather loves travel and anything have to do with the water, and is a certitified scuba diver. Married since high school graduation and the mother of five, her greatest love in life remains her family, but she also believes her career has been an incredible gift, and she is grateful every day to be doing something that she loves so very much for a living

Book Review: Mercenary Princess (Mercenary Socialites #1) by Setta Jay

Title: Mercenary Princess (Mercenary Socialites #1) 

Author: Setta Jay

Stars: 2 

Review:
Setta Jay new sires and while it isn't perfect and most of it is Sex scene if readers are into this type of series or book than this might be what you are looking for.  I need more story than sex to really enjoy a book series.  The story lacks romance it is all about sex and absolutely no courting/dating (If people still use that word aka Dating.)
The author Setta Jay wrote a book about sex between two people and left a story floating around readers trying to figure out why this book was even written.
This book is more about the author fantasies than about a story AKA written Porn.
I skipped almost all of the sex once I realized the book would be 200 pages of sex and 60 pages of story.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of  Setta Jay Mercenary Princess

Synopsis:
For years, one man has ruled Sophia’s fantasies. The harmless obsession keeps her warm on the nights her double life starts to take its toll. She, unfortunately, gains his attention at the worst possible moment, when she’s in the middle of a dangerous job. Now, she’ll be forced to protect her heart along with her life of lies.

Viktor has been tempted by the innocent princess’s lust-filled glances for far too long, and he has fought hard to resist her beauty. When her secrets finally draw him in, getting through her royal guard proves a minor inconvenience. But one sexually charged night isn’t enough. He wants more, including whatever she’s hiding beneath that demure façade.

As much as Sophia wants Viktor, she can never fully allow him in because her secrets aren’t her own. Viktor is determined to have all of his princess. Will they find a way to be together, or will her dangerous secrets tear them apart?

Kindle Edition, 1st Edition, 269 pages

Published August 16th 2018 by Setta Jay, LLC

About The Author:

Setta Jay is the author of the popular Guardians of the Realms series. She's garnered attention and rave reviews in the paranormal romance world for creating stories that incorporate a strong plot with a heavy dose of heat. 

Setta loves to hear from readers so feel free to ask her questions on social media or send her an email and she will happily reply.