About this book:
“The spotlight is on Blackberry Valley when the popular TV show Destination Discovery comes to town. The host and crew are some of Hannah Prentiss’s friends from when she lived in Los Angeles, and they’re hot on the trail of a treasure supposedly hidden somewhere nearby. When the team hires Hannah to provide food and play local guide, she’s in a prime position to help them solve the century-old mystery of an outlaw who stole one of the largest gems ever discovered in the diamond mines of Arkansas and escaped with it to the wilds around Hannah’s beloved hometown.
But as mishaps plague the investigators, both in the historic house they’re using as a base of operations and in the cave where the outlaw allegedly hid out, Hannah begins to suspect that someone in the present means to keep them from finding the answers of the past. Is it all just a publicity stunt—or is the legendary diamond real?”
Series: Book #11 in the “Mysteries of Blackberry Valley” series. Reviews of Book #1, Book #2, Book #3, Book #4, Book #5, Book #6, Book #7, Book #8, Book #9, and Book #10!
Spiritual Content- A few Scriptures are mentioned & remembered; Prayers, Thanking God, & Praising God; 'H’s are capital when referring to God; Mentions of God; Mentions of prayers, praying, & blessings over food; Mention of Bibles, Bible reading, & a Bible study; Mentions of churches, church going, & a preacher; A couple mentions of Easter Sunday & hymns; A mention of a mission trip; A mention of being blessed;
*Note: The TV show crew used to have a show about cryptids and ghosts, but Hannah tells someone that the TV show host would always approach it “very logically” and told her that “God is full of mysteries and who’s to say what wonders He made that we haven’t yet discovered or don’t understand?” (Hannah doesn’t think that something like the chupacabra is really out there, but shrugs and says she won’t “put God in a box”); One of the TV crew members thinks there is a ghost moving their stuff (due to a prior experience with a “spirit” knocking him over, but the others in the crew do not believe it’s a ghost at their lodgings or previously; However, one member says at the end that maybe the man did experience “something truly bizarre” previously); On the topic of ghosts, Hannah believes “God was certainly capable of the miraculous, but most things had reasonable explanations” and does not believe a ghost is haunting the place, but a human is messing with the crew’s items (the man calls them “those still moving among us” and mentions ghosts quite a few times; *Spoilers* It is revealed to be actual, alive humans messing with their items by the end *End of Spoilers*); Mentions of ghosts & haunted places; Mention of luck & being lucky; A few mentions of trilobites & prehistoric animals.
Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a form of ‘screw up’ and four ‘stupid’s; Some eye rolling; Hearing gunshots & a child scream (the child is physically unharmed, barely-above-not-detailed); Many mentions of a stolen diamond and other items, thieves, criminals, a mafia group, anarchists, & deaths/murders (*Spoilers* It’s believed that a criminal was shot and killed by US Marshalls, but he was actually an undercover US Marshall who was shot and killed by a criminal while protecting his nephew (which the nephew witnessed his uncle’s death), barely-above-not-detailed *End of Spoilers*); Mentions of someone being shot and killed; Mentions of deaths & grief (Hannah for her mother & Elinor for her husband); Mentions of lies, lying, & liars; Mentions of hunting; A few mentions of potential death or drowning when filming a TV show; A few mentions of jealousy; A couple mentions of newspaper stories about people being robbed or murdered by family members; A couple mentions of a missing person (Book #5); A couple mentions of car accidents; A couple mentions of threats; A couple mentions of a microphone being called a “dead cat”; A mention of the Nazis; A mention of almost being mugged; A mention of nightmares over witnessing a death; A mention of the Spanish Flu pandemic; A mention of a bully;
*Note: Mentions of car brands; A couple mentions of butting in/out of a conversation; A couple mentions of brand names (Perk coffee & Rolodex); A mention of a movie (Raiders of the Lost Ark).
Sexual Content- A hand kiss, two head kisses, three not-detailed kisses, and two barely-above-not-detailed kisses; Some touches, embraces, hand holding, warmth, & smelling (barely-above-not-detailed); Blushes; When a friend tells Hannah that she is waiting on having “sparks” with the right guy, Hannah tells her not to settle for less but also that it sometimes takes “more than one dinner for those sparks to ignite”; Mentions of boyfriends/girlfriends, dating, & dates; A few mentions of women throwing themselves at a TV show host & flirting with him; A few mentions of jealousy; A couple mentions of kisses & kissing; Some love, being in love, & the emotions (with hints to another potential romance in the historical time-period starting).
-Hannah Prentiss, age 36
P.O.V. switches between Hannah & Elinor (in the historical period)
Six scenes set in 1910
244 pages
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My personal Rating-
I wasn’t sure if this one would catch my attention, but because of accidentally reading the next book’s blurb, I knew I had to read it! I definitely enjoyed that ending and the behind the scenes of the TV show, but also was interested in the historical setting and the friend group in the contemporary main time-line too. The mystery was interesting albeit a bit rushed with a solution quickly shared at the conclusion. Like in the prior book, I did have to raise my eyebrows at Lacy once again doing some activities that seemed a bit questionable for her condition. I look forward to continuing the series soon to see what happens with Hannah next. :)
See y’all on Friday with a new review!
*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
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