Using various fortune telling tools to interpret her visions, Sunny seeks to aid the residents of Divinity, New York. But when she uses tea leaves to read the frazzled town librarian, what lies at the bottom of the cup is anything but helpful.
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Kari Lee Townsend lives in central NY with her understanding husband, her 3 busy boys, and her oh-so-dramatic daughter who make everything she does worthwhile and provide loads of material for her books :-) She writes teen superheros and cozy mysteries set in small towns with mystical elements and quirky characters, as well as romantic comedies under the name Kari Lee Harmon. She spends her days and nights trying to figure out whodunit...funny how no one at home will confess any more than the characters in her books. To find out more about Kari go to her website karileetownsend.com and karileeharmon.com
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46 of 49 people found the following review helpful
By TribalCat
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The title is wonderful, and I was really looking forward to reading this book. I'm a great cozy mystery fan and always enjoy a bit of the paranormal creeping in. However, the protagonist is a 29-year-old who acts and reacts as a pre-teen would. She jumps up and down and claps her hands when she's excited, sticks her tongue out at people, and her reactions to the detective are extremely sophomoric. The woman's almost 30? There's no real depth to the book or to the characters, and the action is all superficial. We don't get to find out what anyone is thinking or feeling or who they really are or what their motivations could be. There's no background, we don't even know who Sunny really is or what makes her tick. It feels like we don't get to share experiences with the main character as she is going through them, but rather that she's just telling us what she did after the fact (she stole bugging equipment from the detective's apartment? Really? Where were we when this was happening? How did she know he even had any, or where he would keep it, and where was he while she was stealing it?) She waltzes into town and is immediately partnered up with a "god-like" detective to solve a murder in which she is supposed to be the main suspect, then her clingy, disapproving and two-dimensional parents show up to assist her. Within a couple of days of moving to the town, she knows all the history and gossip of the town, and all of the townspeople love her? I had higher hopes for this series. I gave it two stars for effort, and because the premise is cute...a tea leaf reader assists the police in solving murders, but otherwise I would have rated it a one-star read. I was ready to quit about halfway through the book, but I kept reading and hoping it would get better. It did not.
46 of 52 people found the following review helpful
By Turtles
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I was pretty excited for this book. The premise sounded really fun, a fortune teller mystery! The book starts off with a bang, the heroine leaves her parents penthouse, and under their thumb, at 29. She promptly buys up an old Victorian house (and cat) with her trust fund and sets up shop in Divinity, NY. Her first customer is a librarian and upon reading her tea leaves, sees her death.
The story went exceedingly down hill from there, Sunny (heroine) tells the police (square jawed love interest) about the murder an hour after the librarian leaves, she is arrested and let go... no one could see her killing anyone??! She drops in the town bar, gets drunk and has the big cop carry her home. A day later she's "partnered" up with him by the chief and can't seem to break a nasty habit of diarrhea-of-the-mouth through a flurry of clue-rich interviews.
I stopped reading half way though with Sunny stuck in a closet listening to some potential murderers get it on to blasting porn, she was talking to the cop fellow on her cell phone. Ugh.
The book just flew all over the place without consistent tense or tangent. The characters were flat and/or blown out of proportion. And while I don't mind subject matter in a "cozy mystery" being more PG-13+ it was unexpected in this and felt thrown in. I won't be finishing the book. It was poorly written.
The story went exceedingly down hill from there, Sunny (heroine) tells the police (square jawed love interest) about the murder an hour after the librarian leaves, she is arrested and let go... no one could see her killing anyone??! She drops in the town bar, gets drunk and has the big cop carry her home. A day later she's "partnered" up with him by the chief and can't seem to break a nasty habit of diarrhea-of-the-mouth through a flurry of clue-rich interviews.
I stopped reading half way though with Sunny stuck in a closet listening to some potential murderers get it on to blasting porn, she was talking to the cop fellow on her cell phone. Ugh.
The book just flew all over the place without consistent tense or tangent. The characters were flat and/or blown out of proportion. And while I don't mind subject matter in a "cozy mystery" being more PG-13+ it was unexpected in this and felt thrown in. I won't be finishing the book. It was poorly written.
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
By Bookworm936
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I like cozies, cats, victorian houses and paranormal topics....yet I found this book to be extremely annoying. The main character is 29 and just moving out on her own. She buys a rusted bug with a working heater but will be ok because she took an automotive class? I ask because not alot of mechanics work on old bugs. Colleges today focus on more current vehicles. I take my bug to a mechanic that works only on air cooled vehicles. Soooo...then her parents beg her not to go. However, she is now ready to be out on her own, yet she plans to live off her trust fund?? How is living off a trust fund being on one's own? Sunny (who at some time before the story began had her name changed to Sunny from Sylvia - just because she didn't feel like a Sylvia) then buys an old victorian house (she names the house Vicky) and plans to do the repairs herself as well as redecorate?? It seems odd considering she hasn't done much of anything on her own...yet everything "feels" right. Then she hooks up with a detective (she nicknames the detective as well and gives him his own ring tone) to find a murderer...I didn't care for Sunny's character. Sunny just didn't "feel" genuine to me. She seemed false and her character seemed forced. The relationship with her parents, Rosemary (her realator) and her interactions with other people (including law enforcement) did not reflect an adult but more of a teenager/young adult.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fortune-Teller Becomes Prime Suspect
Sunny, the only daughter of well-to-do professionals, feels stifled in her parents home. Their overprotective actions stimulate her to move from New York to a small town in New... Read more
Published 4 months ago by RE Krause
4.0 out of 5 stars
Tempest in the tea leaves
At age 29, Sunny Meadows is more than ready to leave her parents, who see her as nothing more than a disappointment. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Aurian
1.0 out of 5 stars
So disappointing!
While this book looked promising, I'm half way through and I'm not sure I can even finish it. I'm an avid mystery reader, and this book is so poorly written that I have to put it... Read more
Published 5 months ago by ElaineTerman
1.0 out of 5 stars
IiMPOSSIBLE, CHILDISH, AND SILLY
Wow, I sure wish I had read the reviews before buying this book. I have been out of commission with a broken leg for three weeks and have read or reread nearly 24 books. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Keith D. Lutz
2.0 out of 5 stars
Sunny the brat
The book starts out with a bratty teen running away from home. BUT, she is 29 years old. She prefers old stuff but has a bank account so she doesn't have to work to live. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Annie Flemming
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun, fun, fun
A magical cat, a sleuth with psychic abilities, a small town, a victorian house are all combined to make a great start of a new mystery series. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Pat Ruta
4.0 out of 5 stars
A bit juvenile, but light weight fun.
As my 4 stars indicate, I liked the first two books in this series (I read 1 and 2 on the same day, so this is really a combo review). It's a fast read, light cozy mystery series. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Anne
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't waste your time
All characters in this book exhibit the emotional range of a junior high-schooler, the 'mystery' quality is worthy of less than one star; I totally don't get the reviews that... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Janet
4.0 out of 5 stars
A "Sunny" debut
I thoroughly enjoyed this entertaining and fun debut book by Ms. Townsend. Sunny and Mitch kept me laughing and Morty was completely adorable! Read more
Published 11 months ago by Debra Burge
4.0 out of 5 stars
I foresee a fun read
In this fun and frolicsome mystery by Kari Lee Townsend, we meet psychic Sylvia "Sunny"
Meadows. Read more
Meadows. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Dale
