Review: Sunshine Hunter
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2013
I love a good mystery.  In these Eastern/Midwestern U.S. settings, Susan Hunter mysteries are all fun and "easy breezy" reading.  First and most obvious is that they are all mysteries.  Secondly, they do not fit the profile of being literature that I would recommend for English teachers aligning with the Common Core standards which support reading primarily non-fiction materials.  Third, I do feel that they are worth reviewing because they are fun to read.If Legally Blond had not already been written and produced, I think Maddie could have written the script, and made it even better than it already is.  While Susan is blond, we readers don't know whether she's legal or not, but the assumption is that she is striking both on and off the racketball racquetball court.What makes tight-muscled Susan Hunter bearable, since all she does is shop for name brand clothes without having a name brand type job, eat fattening foods, play racquetball better than any man, seldom cries when she gets hurt, attracts every man in a town the size of New York City, and doesn't have sex with her boyfriend in the first two books, is that she is unbelievably clumsy.  She falls in the mud, dives into the ocean and one breast pops out, has a pitcher of beer spilled down the front of her name brand blouse without getting mad, and gets her tennis shoe (with her foot in it) caught in the mouth of a shark. Those are just a few of her escapades.  Oh yes, and she helps catch bad guys, too.If you want to buy something for your grandchildren that isn't filled with bad language and graphic sex scenes.  then I would recommend Maddie's Susan Hunter series.  Warning:  Susan does drink quite a bit of alcohol - way too much for 13 year olds.  However, iSunshine Hunter (A Susan Hunter Mystery)If I were 13, you can bet I'd be begging my mom to buy me a racquetball racquet, and cute outfits in which to play.  I would try not to cry when I got hit with a ball going 100 mph, but I'm not sure that even Susan could convince me that didn't hurt.  Sunshine Hunter is, as promised, "easy, breezy."  I only wish I'd written it.  Easy, breezy -- NOT!!