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A Bad Day for Sunshine
A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones is $2.99! This is the first book in a series series after Jones concluded her Charley Davidson books. Have you read this one? Are you a Jones fan?
New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones is back with the brand-new snarky, sassy, wickedly fun Sunshine Vicram series!
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.
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Upright Women Wanted
RECOMMENDED: Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey is $2.99! Carrie read this one and gave it a B+:
I have a hunch that this book will launch an A+ series, but it feels too much like a prequel to be graded an A+ and too much of a good prequel to merit anything less than an B+.
In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.
“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.”
Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda.
The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin is $2.99! This is a fantasy novel with a bit of romance and a strong, fierce heroine who is MUCH loved by readers. This book was nominated for the Hugo, the Nebula, and won the Locus for Best First Novel. It’s part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals and is being price-matched. Yay!
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had.
As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother’s death and her family’s bloody history.
With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate – and gods and mortals – are bound inseparably together.
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The Switch
RECOMMENDED: The Switch by Beth O’Leary is $2.99! Catherine read this one and gave it an A:
It’s a very gentle, wholesome sort of book. I read it last week when I was sick, and it was really the perfect book to curl up with if one is under the weather.
Eileen is sick of being 79.
Leena’s tired of life in her twenties.
Maybe it’s time they swapped places…
When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, she escapes to her grandmother Eileen’s house for some overdue rest. Eileen is newly single and about to turn eighty. She’d like a second chance at love, but her tiny Yorkshire village doesn’t offer many eligible gentlemen.Once Leena learns of Eileen’s romantic predicament, she proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can live in London and look for love. Meanwhile Leena will look after everything in rural Yorkshire. But with gossiping neighbours and difficult family dynamics to navigate up north, and trendy London flatmates and online dating to contend with in the city, stepping into one another’s shoes proves more difficult than either of them expected.
Leena learns that a long-distance relationship isn’t as romantic as she hoped it would be, and then there is the annoyingly perfect – and distractingly handsome – school teacher, who keeps showing up to outdo her efforts to impress the local villagers. Back in London, Eileen is a huge hit with her new neighbours, but is her perfect match nearer home than she first thought?
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“Adorably meddlesome” just made me gag.
That book sounds rather Stephanie Plum-ish with the guys.
I read A BAD DAY FOR SUNSHINE a while ago and, for someone who loves clever banter, it was too much, tried too hard. To be fair, I enjoyed reading it, but at the end, felt as though I’d read the wrong book or had the wrong expectations. Maybe it was just a bad day for me. YMMV.
I really liked THE SWITCH, just go into it knowing that it’s not really a romance. Much more about how we create love and community and how we go on in the face of grief. It’s excellent.
Upright Women Wanted and The Switch are so good!
Re: “Upright Women Wanted”, I agree with Carrie. While I wanted to love it – and I really enjoyed it – there simply wasn’t enough book to tell the story like I wanted (and needed) it to. There wasn’t an explanation for why the world is the way it is – the book assumes you already know (not good when you’re establishing a new world) or that you will find out very soon. Personally, I love good worldbuilding, and nothing puts me off like a lack of explanation/background for why things are the way they are. Give me the deets!
Would I read the heck out of a full book set in this world? Absolutely. Would I recommend this novella to others when there’s no next book in sight to answer all those burning questions? Probably not.
@HeatherS – that’s exactly how I felt about Gailey’s first book, with the hippos. It almost reads like fanfic, like we’re supposed to be familiar with the rules of the world it’s set in, and without some framing it was hard to follow why things were the way they were.
I’ve read three Gailey books now: Magic for Liars, When We Were Magic, and Upright Women Wanted and every time I’ve been super into the premise but they’ve all felt a little underdeveloped, like a small glimpse into a much larger story universe. @trefoil, you’ve nailed it, that they have an almost fanfic like quality in assuming the reader is already familiar with the larger universe.
I really disliked A Bad Day for Sunshine, it was like Joss Whedon and Aaron Sorkin had a baby with constant quips and quirky dialogue. I was also very frustrated by the fact that they wrapped up the kidnapping mystery but left a lot of other stuff up in the air. I get that it’s meant to be the first in a series but too many storylines were left open for my taste. It also needs a CW for sexual assault and violence.
The Switch was delightful but definitely more women’s fiction than straight-up romance.