A Bad Day for Sunshine (Sunshine Vicram, #1)

by Darynda Jones

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Darynda Jones takes the vest best parts of Charley Davidson and gives us Sunshine Vicram. I don't know how I am going to survive until the next book releases.

I loved Charley Davidson from the Charley Davidson series and I mean it when I say Darynda took all the best part of that series to create this new series. The story is told from two points of view that of Sunshine Vicram and also her fourteen-year-old daughter, Auri. I loved them both.   Sunny is as smart and witty, as is her daughter.

Sunshine has just returned to Del Sol, New Mexico, she was just elected as the new Sheriff, even though she didn't run for election. Maybe her first investigation needs to be how her parents pull that off. Before she can deal with possible election fraud, her first day as Sheriff gets her involved in a case of an abducted teenager. While Sunshine is the official investigator, her daughter has plans to help find the girl was who so nice to her by questioning the girl's friends at school.  But Auri's first day of school is fraught with just as much turmoil and her mother's first day as Sheriff.

Once Sunny finds this missing girl, she plans to dig deep into a cold case. The one that involved her own abduction when she was 17. She went missing for several days until she was brought to the hospital with a traumatic brain injury and spent a month in a coma. Sunshine has mostly lost that time in her life from several weeks before and after her abduction but she keeps getting flashes and she is determined to find the person who abducted her and finally get answers.

Since Sunshine has just returned to her hometown, she left after her abduction, we get a great introduction in this first book to the main characters of the story as well as the secondary characters who make up the Sheriff's office including Quincy, Sunny's long-time BFF and deputy sheriff; we also meet several people in the town, Sunny's family and her long time love interest, Levi Ravender, a boy she has loved from afar her whole life who has grown up dark and dangerous and who comes from a screwed up, abusive family (sound like anyone we remember?). Even young Auri will have a love interest in classmate, Cruz de los Santos.

If you are a fan of Charley Davidson, there are a number of characters here that are going to ring bells and seem very familiar to you, but the best part is that Darynda Jones has taken all the best parts of the Charley Davidson series and created something new and for those of you who aren't of fan of urban fantasy, this is your chance to enjoy Darynda's wonderful characters, storytelling and humor.

My biggest problem right now it that I was so invested in this story by the end (I've got theories that I want to know if I am right) and this book won't be officially released until April. That means it will be months and months and months before we get the next book. That sucks so much. A book nerd's heartbreak. When I was finally introduced to the Charley Davidson series, there were at least seven books out there and I just binged book after book until I caught up. I was so immerse in her world.  Now I can only hope there will be another book before the end of the year and I bet I still won't have all my answers yet.   I need answers!  While it will be painful to have to wait for the stories to unfold, these characters are going to make the waiting so enjoyable.

I can't wait for more Sunny and Auri!

Received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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