{"id":320,"date":"2022-03-27T04:59:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T09:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2023-10-18T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T16:40:16","slug":"bettys-books-a-bad-day-for-sunshine-sunshine-vicram-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Betty&#8217;s Books:  A Bad Day for Sunshine (Sunshine Vicram, #1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\">About the Book<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9781250149459\/a-bad-day-for-sunshine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/45046796._SY475_-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-322\" style=\"width:163px;height:265px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/45046796._SY475_-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/45046796._SY475_.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A Bad Day for Sunshine<\/em>&nbsp;is a bad book for Betty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>From the publisher:<\/strong> Sheriff Sunshine Vicram finds her cup o\u2019 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, its strong cups of coffee\u2014and a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff\u2014an election her adorably meddlesome parents entered her in\u2014and 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&#8217;s reminding Sunny why she left Del Sol in the first place. Add to that trouble at her daughter\u2019s new school and a kidnapped prized rooster named Puff Daddy, and Sunshine has her hands full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\">Betty&#8217;s Quick Review<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I got through the first chapter and a portion of the second of this book, and just from that I knew I would not enjoy it whatsoever. I imagine the author was drinking wine with her friend while watching Gilmore Girls, made an offhand comment about &#8220;what if Lorelei was sheriff of Stars Hollow?!&#8221;, and the friend replied that &#8220;oh my gosh you should totally write that!&#8221; So she did. GROAN. Probably not for you if you appreciate refined, intelligent storytelling and writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"39\" src=\"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-star-rating.png\" alt=\"One Star\" class=\"wp-image-344\" style=\"width:100px;height:20px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>One star for this one! Unlikeable characters and too goofy for Betty.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\">Read It Yourself!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:15px\">\n<p><strong>Author: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/author\/daryndajones\">Darynda Jones<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Series:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jodileastewart.com\/series\/silki-the-girl-of-many-scarves-trilogy\/\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9781250149459\/a-bad-day-for-sunshine\">Sunshine Vicram Series<\/a>, Volume 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publisher:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/stmartinspress\/\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/stmartinspress\/\">St. Martin&#8217;s Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publication Year:<\/strong>&nbsp;2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ASIN:<\/strong>&nbsp;B07SCRJ2DF<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ISBN:<\/strong>&nbsp;1250149444<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Book From the publisher: Sheriff Sunshine Vicram finds her cup o\u2019 joe more than half full when the small village of Del Sol, New Mexico, becomes the center &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,10],"tags":[39,36,38,37,40],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-entertainment","tag-betty-shortbangs","tag-bettys-books","tag-book-review","tag-books","tag-one-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toughcrowdreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}