Tuesday, April 14, 2020

A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones [Review]

A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones
A Bad Day for Sunshine (Sunshine Vicram #1) by Darynda Jones
Format: ebook
Source: provided through NetGalley
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Date read: February 4, 2020

Sunshine Vicram
1. A Bad Day for Sunshine - Hardcover | Kindle
2. A Good Day for Chardonnay
3. A Hard Day for a Hangover

Darynda Jones
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
Sheriff Sunshine Vicram finds her cup o’ joe more than half full when the small village of Del Sol, New Mexico, becomes the center of national attention for a kidnapper on the loose.

Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, its strong cups of coffee—and a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff--an election her adorably meddlesome parents entered her in--and she expects her biggest crime wave to involve an elderly flasher named Doug. But a teenage girl is missing, a kidnapper is on the loose, and all of it's reminding Sunny why she left Del Sol in the first place. Add to that trouble at her daughter’s new school and a kidnapped prized rooster named Puff Daddy, and Sunshine has her hands full.

Enter sexy almost-old-flame Levi Ravinder and a hunky US Marshall, both elevens on a scale of one to blazing inferno, and the normally savvy sheriff is quickly in over her head. Now it’s up to Sunshine to juggle a few good hunky men, a not-so-nice kidnapping miscreant, and Doug the ever-pesky flasher. And they said coming home would be drama-free.
Thoughts on A Bad Day for Sunshine: MAN, I liked this book. Sunshine has baggage and muddled memories and an adorable kid and a best friend who has her back and a potential love interest who...ahh, well, let's just say things are complicated on that front and leave it at that.

Brought back to her hometown by (possibly) underhanded means (although all signs are pointing to it being for a very good reason), Sunshine has a lot going on her first day on the job. The one that hits closest to home is the disappearance of a teenage girl - a situation that Sunshine VERY MUCH wants to resolve with a happy ending.

While she deals with all the stuff that comes part and parcel with being sheriff, she's also still trying to unravel what happened to her in the not-so-distant past. Which opens up a whole other can of worms and has her finally coming clean about a bunch of things she's been bottling up.

I'm seriously smitten with Sunshine and her daughter and their friends and family and how sweetly bizarre this little town is. I have suspicions about things and I'd very very much like to see how everything plays out at Sunshine delves deeper into her ongoing investigation.

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