Sunny Chandler’s Return

The young, sexy and popular, Sunny Chandler, left her small Louisiana town of Latham Green for the big city of New Orleans under extraordinary circumstances. She reluctantly returned three years later to be a brides maid in her best friends wedding. The small town gossip mill as expected cranked up immediately. Only Sunny knew why she ran out of her own wedding three years earlier while standing at the alter. The reason would remain an indelible secret that she alone would not and could not shed or share. Ty Beaumont, the young, handsome and very charming local sheriff who didnt appear to have any official law enforcement duties and was a recent arrival in the small town, spent most of his time playing the role of the town stud. He immediately became fascinated by Ms Chandler. With his best friend he wagered a case of Wild Turkey whiskey that he would bed Sunny Chandler before she returned to New Orleans at the end of the week. From this point on the reader is confronted with Ty Beaumonts irritating, adolescent wit and high school-level flirting scenes that very soon became annoying. As in Browns previous romance novels, she doesnt really get into the story until the last third of the book. Then she turns it on and makes it rumble. From here on out Ill stick with Browns mysteries with a bit of romance rather than her pure romantic writings that are stereotyped, shallow and predictable. The book is very light reading at best. Although I am a big fan of Sandra Browns mysteries, I cant get past a 2 on a 5 scale for this unexciting piece of romantic trivia.

I expected to find a story with believable characters. Instead I found a caricature of a small town sheriff who is so sexally aggressive that in real life I would have hired a lawyer and sued him for harassment. What woman would ever sleep with a man who said he was involved in a bet he could get her in bed immediately upon meeting her. Strawberries, indeed! What a crude come on! That kind of misogyny would have sent me running as fast as I could and I would have probably explained to my friend that outside of wedding formalities, I was already on my way out of town. I also cannot imagine taking the blame for a potential husband and and leaving him at the altar without a single word. Protect him? I\’d undoubtedly take out a full page advertisement in the newspaper and post it on the church door. I certainly would have made staying in the small town very hard for my former fiance and my best friend would have heard my dressing down while she was running off to New Orlean to escape her bad reputation. Finally, once the heroine had decided to sleep with her creepy admirer knowing he was involved in a bet on her sexual submission, a mere case of Wild Turkey would not have bothered me. I know that for sure because once I make a decision knowing that there is danger for me, I expect consequences. This dumb woman falls in love in couple of days and jumps into bed expecting prince charming when be has a cad who is pleasing to look at and nasty to women. This kind of romantic fantasy is in no way connected to real and heart warming human relationships.

STORY BRIEF: During the wedding ceremony, when asked to say\” I do,\” Sunny said \”I don\’t\” and walked out of the church. She then moved to New Orleans. She never explained why, and the town has been full of gossip and conjecture ever since. It is three years later. Sunny\’s best friend Fran is getting married and asked her to come home for a week to help. On Sunny\’s first night back she meets Ty at a pre-wedding party. Ty moved to town shortly after Sunny had moved out. The entire book is about Ty wooing Sunny and winning her over. Secondary stories were discovering why Sunny walked out of her wedding and what bad things happened in Ty\’s past. It\’s shorter than most romance novels. REVIEWER\’S OPINION: I recently read Night Angel and enjoyed the guy\’s \”gentleness and restraint\” in wooing and having sex with an abused woman. Ty in this book is as opposite as you can get. He is oblivious to the words \”no\” and \”go away.\” I\’ve read about a lot of guys who give orders in the bedroom, but I don\’t recall reading about someone as \”forceful in flirting\” as Ty outside the bedroom. For example: When he first meets Sunny, he walks up to her, chats for a minute and then says George \”bet a new fly-casting rod against a case of Wild Turkey that I couldn\’t get you into bed with me by the end of next week.\” He then puts his arms around her and starts dancing with her, even though she said she didn\’t want to dance. She\’s almost in shock from his words and actions. Although she keeps saying no, Ty keeps showing up. He touches her and kisses her against her will, but each time she melts. I couldn\’t stop thinking about or comparing this to date rape, but Ty\’s actions were somehow positive, not negative. It didn\’t hurt that he was gorgeous and women swooned over him. And he never raped her. He forcibly kissed her and touched her, and she was welcoming in her responses, and then he would say goodbye – and then she was mad at herself because she didn\’t wanted him to stop. I think it worked because Ty wanted her to be happy and wanted things to be good for her. I wouldn\’t want a guy to read this book and get ideas thinking this is the way to treat women, but for a woman to read it, it\’s ok. It\’s a definite change of pace, and it was fun. It\’s light reading, no suspense or bad guys here – other than picking the right mate. DATA: Story length: 227 pages. Swearing language: mild. Sexual language: mild. Number of sex scenes: 2. Total number of sex scene pages: 7. Setting: current day Latham Green, Louisiana. Copyright: 1987. Genre: contemporary romance.

I haven\’t read a Sandra Brown novel in a long time, until this book became available on Amazon e-books at a reasonable price. She\’s one of my favorite authors. Her novels are intense with romance and mystery. Here, Sunny Chandler returns to her hometown to attend a friend\’s wedding even if most of the community remind her of guilt she\’s never forgotten. But soon, a new man shows up the first day of her one-week visit. Ty Beaumont is hot to get her attention and her body. But can she really trust him? He seems to attract all women to his bed. I like Sandra Brown\’s stories as they reflect the strength and endurance of women. Her books are intoxicating. Feel the passion, read her books.

Enjoyed this book , not quite as exiting as some of Sandra Brown novels, this one is just romance, no exciting story alongside the romance

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