A Hard Day for a Hangover by Darynda Jones

Sunny's day is not going well The local pervert has been stabbed with a knitting needle, right after one of the town's older ladies threatened to do that exact thing. Her daughter is still pushing all of her buttons and Sunny is still reeling with the knowledge of who her daughter's father actually is. Now she just has to figure out how to tell Auri. Oh, and now there's a girl on the side of a cliff who has been assaulted and left for dead. So, a lot going on. 

Like other books in this series, there's a lot of disbelief suspension required and there's a LOT going on. Still. It's fast, fun, and fluffy and there is a lot of character and plot development in all of this. 

Four stars

This book comes out December 6, 2022

Follows A Good Day for Chardonnay

ARC kindly provided by Macmillan and Edelweiss

Opinions are my own

A Good Day for Chardonnay by Darynda Jones

Jones's series often deal with heavy issues but with whacky twists and truly unusual situations. This book is no different. The wackiness is maybe starting to veer a little too far for me but I still highly enjoyed the character building in this book as well as the overarching story. Auri could have been a little quieter but we keep being told that Sunshine was a handful as a child and therefore deserves a child who is just as wild. Though maybe not quite so death-defying. 

Sunny just needs one day off. But she's not going to get it in this book. She is now counting on both hands the number of people who claim to have killed Brick Ravinder, the man who kidnapped Sunshine when she was a teen. Even his brother, in a prison in Arizona, is getting in on the action. And in the middle of all this, she might be developing some feelings for her best friend. Well, she's at least considering it.

Of course, her daughter Auri isn't sitting quietly by either. She's been cleaning out her granparents' attic and discovered a ream of old newspaper articles referring to mysterious disappearances in town. And Auri thinks she knows who is behind it...

Four stars

This book comes out July 27th, 2021

Follows a Bad Day for Sunshine

Followed by A Good Day for a Hangover

ARC kindly provided by St. Martin's Press and NetGalley

Opinions are my own

A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones

Can you be elected sheriff if you don't even run? Apparently if you are Sunshine Vicram you can. It's all a part of her parents plot to have her move back home. Hell, they even built a guest house and they never have guests. It's all a little suspicious. For Sunshine, it's the latest in a series of "interesting" things that have happened to her. At least her fourteen-year-old daughter seems amused by it. 

Too bad both of them are going to have hard first days. Sunshine's consists of an escaped prisoner, a woman nearly crashing into her as she stands in the police station, a kidnapped girl who may or may not have had visions of the kidnapping, and a throwback to Sunshine's own muddled past. 

Auri has to go to school where everyone thinks she is a narc, people spray paint her locker, and the mysterious boy that everyone wants to befriend or date seems to have his eyes on her which paints an even bigger target on her back.

We have alternating third person omniscient narrators and that creates a bit of mystery around the past since they hide things, even from themselves. Jones can be very fun but sometimes veers into the territory of "Too Much" for me but this seems like a great start to a new series.

Four stars

This book came out April 7th, 2020

Followed by A Good Day for Chardonnay

Borrowed as ebook from Libby

Opinions are my own