Book Review: Trouble in the Tarot by: Kari Lee Townsend

Lately Sunny has been experiencing a period of big opportunity: her business in Divinity, New York, is thriving, and Detective Mitch Stone has finally agreed to take Sunny on a date. But thanks to her clairvoyant abilities, Sunny knows better than anyone that life deals out bad cards along with good. 

When Sunny agrees to read tarot cards at the annual Summer Solstice Carnival, she meets her Granny Gert's "arch nemesis" Fiona Atwater, and is overcome by a vision of Fiona in a violent argument. Sunny knows trouble is brewing when Granny and Fiona start having squabbles all over town. But the fighting comes to a head when a local backer gets run over by a big white Cadillac and Granny and Fiona are found at the crime scene. 

Sunny knows she should step aside and let Mitch handle the investigating, but she's not about to ignore her visions and leave her granny's life in fate's hands... 

Oh Sunshine Meadows... you might have actually outdone yourself this time! What a great book! This mystery kept me guessing from start to finish! I had an idea of who I thought did it but in the end.. I had no idea how deep this mystery really went! I also loved the mini sub plot involved too, it gave it a lot more twists and turns than your average mystery! Sunny's Granny & her "nemesis" Fiona had me cracking up at just about every hair brained idea they came across... and once again Morty, Sunny's "special" kitty steals my heart! I also can't wait to see how Sunny & "Detective Grumpy Pants" turn out... big steps in this book... hopefully even bigger ones will happen for them both in the next! :)

Book Review: Corpse in the Crystal Ball by: Kari Townsend

After clearing her name as the prime suspect in a murder, Sunny Meadows hopes she can finally enjoy some serenity in the idyllic town of Divinity in upstate New York. She'd also like a second chance with Detective Mitch Stone. But when Mitch's gorgeous ex-girlfriend Isabel Gonzales shows up, Sunny's not sure she can compete. Then Isabel mysteriously disappears. 

When the police turn to Sunny for help, her visions lead to the discovery of Isabel's corpse in the woods. Before she died, Isabel scrawled a message in the dirt implicating Mitch in her murder. Now Sunny must help the man she's falling in love with as she sets out to find the real killer. But this time Sunny's clairvoyant abilities might not save her- as what she doesn't see can hurt her...

YES! We are back in business in Divinity and Sunny's fortune telling industry is booming! I really loved this follow up to Kari Townsend's first edition (Tempest in the Tea Leaves) in her series of fortune telling mysteries! I think this is going to turn out to be a great series and I hope she writes tons more! I love Sunny's character and have grown and loved the people and town of divinity... even Detective grumpy pants aka. Mitch Stone... aka Sunny's some day boyfriend. I get it... it's complicated but "It's a start!"

There are some new characters that were introduced into this book as well and there is one granny in particular that I am glad to see that will be sticking around for a while! Sunny's granny comes to stay for a bit with her and oddly enough finds divinity and Sunny's house "Vickie" to be a perfect fit! She is spunky just like Sunny and has developed quite a bond with Morty who can usually hardly tolerate anyone besides Sunny. This story had a great plot and had a lot of leads which led me to think quite a bit, but in the end I must say I was totally blown away with the twisted ending!

Book Review: Tempest in the Tea Leaves by: Kari Lee Townsend

Tempest in the Tea Leaves: A Fortune Teller Mystery

In the fortune telling business there are a lot of pretenders, but Sunshine Meadows is the real deal-and her predictions can be lethally accurate... Leaving the Big Apple for a quaint town of Divinity, New York, Sunny is determined to make it on her own as a psychic. With an ancient Victorian house as her place of business, Sunny uses various psychic methods to aid the town's residents. But when she uses tea leaves to give a reading for a frazzled librarian, what she finds at the bottom of the cup is anything but helpful. Sunny informs the police of her deadly vision, but her warning is too late. And with hard-nose, ruggedly handsome Detective Mitch Stone denying her abilities and naming her prime suspect, the situation is dire. Now Sunny has to use her visions to clear her name, before the killer can put an end to the psychic's future...

Not too bad for a "First in a new series"... It wasn't one of my favorites but it was by far the most quirkiest mysteries I've read! I like the characters in the sweet little town of Divinity. I LOVE the chemistry between Sunny & Detective Stone, and I'm very interested in where that relationship might lead. Sunny can be a bit impulsive, eccentric and bit neurotic... but she does have spunk, pizazz and a genuinely good heart. The only part I didn't like was toward the end... I felt sort of like I was being led on a wild goose chase, when trying to figure out the killer. I sort of had my superstitions who the killer was about half way into the book but still wanted to get to the bottom of it for sure. It did keep my interest most of the time but, would I read it again? Probably not... Ironically I'll probably be reading the library's copy of the next book in the series.

10 Day You Challenge: Day 4

Today is all about books! YAY! One of my favorite subjects to blog about! (as if you couldn't tell lol!) I'm gonna do this like I did yesterday, because you all liked that right?! ;)

So for my current reading status; I am in the midst of J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood book # 8- Lover Mine, and so far it is fantastic! Obviously, since I'm more than half way through the book already and I've only been reading it for 2 days! That is how most of her books go for me though, they are so good I just can't put them down and before I know it I'm done. I have tried taking my time reading these books, because I want them to last. Yes, they are THAT good! If you haven't read them yet, and your into paranormal romance (basically vampires but oh-so-much-sexier than your little sisters twilight books) I highly recommend them! Go, now... RUN to your nearest bookstore and buy the whole set, because once you've read the first, you'll want to read them all! I will truly be sad once I've read the whole series, but I know they are so good I will want to read them over and over again. :)

Next up on my reading list is a cozy mystery... only I am stuck on deciding between two... they are both new author's to me and I own both, so it does not matter which I read first. Hey! I've got it! I'll let you guys decide! Here... I'll even give you a short blurb on both... and just put your vote in the comment box below ;) Kinda fun telling me what to do right?! LOL! I'm like your little reading puppet for you to command... ;)

(Vote for me! Vote for me!) A Sheet Cake Named Desire (A Piece of Cake Mystery) by: Jacklyn Brady

New Orleans pastry chef Rita Lucero is out to bake her way to the top. But when she finds her almost-ex-husband killed with a chef's knife in his back, she becomes suspect number one. Now it's up to her to find the real killer before she winds up as the next victim served.


(No, no, no... Vote for me! Vote for me!) Tempest in the Tea Leaves (A Fortune Teller Mystery) by: Kari Lee Townsend

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.

And finally... what book I can't wait to hit the shelves next is... Jenn McKinlay's next awesome book in her Cupcake Bakery Mystery Books. It's her third book in the series and I have a feeling I'm going to love it like her other two! I'm a big fan of her work and love that I can actually chat back and forth with her through comments on facebook, yeah shes cool like that!

So there you have it! Straight from Jess's bookshelves... ;)