Trapped in Yosemite is a riveting and fast-paced book involving renewed relationships, secrets and past hurts, attempted murder, and getting caught in an earthquake. The book was engrossing, entertaining, and emotional. There was a lot going on, but it all worked. I recommend this book!

"Trapped in Yosemite" is a Christian romantic suspense. The suspense mainly came from a major earthquake hitting the area right as an assassin tried to take out poor Stella. Much of the story was about rescuing people, trying to survive a bad snowstorm and earthquake damage, and getting back in contact with outside help. Stella ended up on a wilderness camp where her ex-fiancée happened to work. He had dumped her and never tried to look her up.

While I appreciate when an author has the character grow throughout the story, Von was hard to take for the first half of the story. The only emotion Von's comfortable with is anger, so he's angry at everything Stella does. Even though he broke their engagement, he's very jealous and didn't want anyone showing any interest in her. She asked someone else to help her get to her aunt and baby, and he's determined to go after her, despite the danger he warned her about and even though others assured him that she had a good reason for taking that risk. His intent? To yell at her, tell her how foolish she was to take such a risk, how she should have done what he said, and to basically make her feel like she can't handle anything without him.

Apparently his anger problem built up after his brother died, so finally facing his loss and grief and eventually feeling like he could let go of the guilt allowed him to deal with Stella more fairly. I could see why he liked the more mature woman of faith that Stella had become, but I still felt like she got back with him mainly because he's the father of their child. I didn't worry about him abusing her, though, as he did change a lot.

Some suspense came from attempts to kill various people (mainly Stella) at the camp. While the killer was identified and stopped, that thread was just dropped. We never found out if a certain camper survived to manipulate his children as he intended (which would affect a main character).

Stella had learned to trust God even in her grief, and Von saw this and started connecting with God again. There was no sex or bad language. Overall, I'd recommend this interesting suspense novel.

“Trapped in Yosemite” by Dana Mentink is one of those books that you want to keep reading no matter how late it gets.

High stakes and secrets follow Stella Rivers and Von Sharpe as a killer and a natural disaster puts their lives at risk.

“Trapped in Yosemite” has characters put to the test as they face their pasts, try to stay alive in the present, as they hope for a future together.
And, just when you think it’s safe to relax while reading this book, Ms. Mentink amps up the action and you’re holding your breath once again.

If you love hold-your-breath, inspirational suspense, I highly recommend you read this book.

This is usually my thing. Wintery landscape with people trapped in a cabin or nature trying to figure out how to get out. The characters were fine, but didn't catch my interest. The writing was also fine but not strong enough for me to continue reading.

This book follows along with Stella and ex-fiancé Von. They get trapped together in a camp after an earthquake hits.

Honestly, my favorite character was the dog, bear. Von was okay, but boring tbh. Stella, I wanted to skip over everything she said, did, etc. As soon as it was revealed that Von was the dad and she kept it from him for 18 months I was done with her. Then she tries to justify it and gets mad at him for being mad at her. He was not an abuser of drugs, women, or domestic violence for there is no excuse for it. She never once acted remorseful for keeping this from him, he missed out on time as well as the baby. Clearly this was something I couldn't get over.

I thought the story lacked believability as well, especially when we find out that the shooter was a random young adult and not a navy seal...how was he always in the right place? Not caught? He jumped into a below freezing river and survived, how? Not to mention so many bad things couldn't possibly happen in a row to a single group of people.

I liked the idea of the story and when I saw it was based in Yosemite, I was excited. I also love Christian fiction when we can miss the cussing, smut, and the author brings God into the story.

Write a book about bear the dog and I'm here for it.

Thanks NetGalley for letting me read it.

I felt this was a good romantic suspense book that had enough twists and turns to keep you engaged. I like the dog in the story and loved the setting.
Thanks for letting me review the book to the publisher