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A Hard Day for a Hangover
by Darynda Jones
This is the third book in the Sunshine Vicram series. Sunshine is the sheriff of the small town of Del Sol, and something is always going wrong in the town. Oftentimes, something that deals directly with Sunshine's messy personal life.
Her teenage daughter, Auri, is also a narrator. She is insatiably curious, and sticks her nose into all the trouble of the town.
This book feels like a season of a TV show. It's the type of TV show that takes place in a small town where nothing should be happening that is all that interesting. However, all of these murders and plot twists keep happening anyway! And our main characters are always in the middle of it! It has the small town charm of everyone knowing everyone, with all of the shenanigans thrown in.
Another reason that it feels like a TV show is that there are so many plots. There are side plots heaped on side plots. There is always something happening and so many balls to juggle.
As Sunshine herself puts it in this book, "This town is like Smallville only none of the crazy people were infected by meteor rocks."
Every time the love interest, Levi, is on the page, Sunshine completely loses her mind to tell us how incredibly sexy he is. It's a strange mix of entertaining and over-the-top annoying. However, it does lead to some sexy payoff, so it's certainly plot relevant.
Overall, this is a solid book that pushes the series in a new direction.
A review including this book will feature on my Youtube channel in the coming weeks, at https://youtube.com/chloefrizzle
Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own.
Her teenage daughter, Auri, is also a narrator. She is insatiably curious, and sticks her nose into all the trouble of the town.
This book feels like a season of a TV show. It's the type of TV show that takes place in a small town where nothing should be happening that is all that interesting. However, all of these murders and plot twists keep happening anyway! And our main characters are always in the middle of it! It has the small town charm of everyone knowing everyone, with all of the shenanigans thrown in.
Another reason that it feels like a TV show is that there are so many plots. There are side plots heaped on side plots. There is always something happening and so many balls to juggle.
As Sunshine herself puts it in this book, "This town is like Smallville only none of the crazy people were infected by meteor rocks."
Every time the love interest, Levi, is on the page, Sunshine completely loses her mind to tell us how incredibly sexy he is. It's a strange mix of entertaining and over-the-top annoying. However, it does lead to some sexy payoff, so it's certainly plot relevant.
Overall, this is a solid book that pushes the series in a new direction.
A review including this book will feature on my Youtube channel in the coming weeks, at https://youtube.com/chloefrizzle
Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own.