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Sunday at the Sunflower Inn

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This is a good book. It is about the people that live in the town. From an older couple that just got engaged, to a young couple seeing each other without her parents approval. From a man that has a car wreck, lands up in the hospital, released and goes home to his grandfather’s house a man he hasn’t seen in thirty years. Lots of different stories that blend together, and mst of the people find love.

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Sunday at the Sunflower Inn is not your typical book. There were many storylines and many characters. Once you get to know the characters their storylines come together to form a community family. I have never read a book with so many characters and storylines,. Thought I would get confused and not be able to follow the story, yet I did. So thank you Ms. Thomas for giving me a new experience when reading. There is Jam Mackenzie who is the owner of a restaurant that everyone in town goes to. She is a strong women who has never experienced true love and figures she never will. Enter Tucson Smith a burly sergeant who comes up to the river to steal Jam's heart. He is also the brother of the new sheriff and finds himself staying in Honey Creek to solve a murder instead of returning to his unit.Jam has turned him into someone he never thought he would be. Then there is McCoy Mason who crashed his Mustang, broke some bones and a leg. Had his fiance break up with him as he laid in his hospital bed' He had nowhere to go and not family to turn to. Or did he?? He ends up in Honey Creek to be nursed back to health by a grandfather he has never seen or heard about. Can he make a life in Honey Creek with a grandfather her knows nothing about and a town that is to tame for him.
I think my favorite characters were Charles Winston and Lilly Lambert or Miss Lilly as she was called. Charles had been a houseman to a very wealthy man who built this beautiful home in Honey Creek to use as a retreat for himself. Well he never used the house and then gave it to Mr. Winston who lived all by himself. His one delight was going to a monthly lunch at Jam's with his three ladies with included Miss Lilly. Miss Lilly worked in the drug store and lived above it. She as well as Mr. Winston have never experienced true love. Until Mr. Winston decided that it was never to late to fall in love.
I truly loved how Ms. Thomas developed the characters. They were real people in a real small town taking care of each other. She mad Jam a strong independent women who did have a soft side to her when it came to love. Can she and the sergeant light that fire for each other? My favorite couple Winston and Lilly will they finally settle into a comfortable lifestyle for a couple their age. I loved Winston's old fashioned ways and how he not only loved Lilly but respected her. Will McCoy and his grandfather come to some kind of family understanding and will he be able to love Honey Creek like everyone else.?
This is the fourth book in the series. I haven't read the other three, but I can say it was an enjoyable story. I felt a peacefulness as I read it and felt I was in Honey Creek myself. We all need to visit a town like Honey Creek, Even if it is by reading and enjoyable book.
Thank you NetGalley and Kensington/Zebra books for the ARC copy of this book Thank you Jodi Thomas for a very enjoyable read..

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Jessica owns the best resturant in town. Charles and older gentleman has lunch there with 3 ladies every week. It is a sweet story of second chances, really liked that it featured older people. looking foward to reading more from this author.

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Sunday at Sunflower Inn is the fourth book in the Honey Creek Series by Ms. Thomas. All her books are good, and I have read them all.
This one follow four couples. The elderly Mr. Winston choses Lily to be his fiancé, Jam and Tucson
McCoy, Baylor, Melanie, and Mike a young couple in love.

The four stories weave around each other and in the end, all is well in Honey Creek. I enjoyed all the stories. My favorite was McCoy who was in a terrible accident and has no place to go. He ends up in Honey Creek at his grandfather’s house who he never met. I wish that is had been more of the main story line. The other stories were good but I McCoy’s the best.

I recommend the story enough that I will buy the audio version as soon as it is published. – Thank you, Net Galley, for an advanced copy for an honest review

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This was a really sweet book. I loved that it had a different cast of characters from my normal read/all walks of life, and the characterization of them and the town and the Inn were all really great. This is a really good book for the warm fuzzies, and checks off all the boxes of the genre for me. Great read!

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I enjoyed reading Sunday at the Sunflower Inn. It was about four different couples falling in love, ranging in age from teenagers to senior citizens. It was about family, how even broken families can find healing. It was about second chances and dreams coming true. My favorite characters were McCoy, Sadler and JD. Their personalities brought a lot of “life” to the book and warmed my heart. I enjoyed how the men went from being strangers with each other to learning what it means to love as a father, son and grandfather.
The only thing I struggled with was how things just wrapped up at the end without a lot of closure. Maybe because this is a series and the next book will answer questions? Also, it was mentioned, after McCoy was shot, that Mr. Winston saw a blue truck and memorized the license plate. Yet nothing more was done with that vital information. I didn’t understand why it was included.
Other than that it was a great read and I can’t wait to read the next book in the series.

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I really liked this book! Jodi Thomas is such an excellent storyteller. The multiple storylines that eventually weave into each other give a sense of community. The characters had depth and breadth. They were interesting and likable. I was reluctant to part with them at the end of the book--I wanted a few more chapters or maybe a sequel. Strongly recommended.

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This is the 4th book in the Honey Creek series - honestly, I haven't read any others and this was an easy stand alone story.

This is a sweet romance book -- it's about finding love at any age. There is a really young couple in the throes of first love. There is a middle age couple that thought love passed them by until a dark night meeting. And there is an older couple also finding love the first time.

In between the romances, there is a broken cowboy, a cute vet, some wild donkeys and a few redhaired fairy girls. It's a cute story!

Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for a temporary, digital ARC in return for my review.

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This is the fourth book in the Honey Creek series. This book has multiple love stories woven throughout the story. I really enjoyed all of the characters and definitely want to read the next book in this series

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Classic Jodi Thomas! Romance with a side of mystery. The plot moves quickly. I love the depth of her characters.

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I love this Honey Creek series. It isn't just romance, there's action and intrigue, too. I am so happy to have been introduced to Jodi Thomas via the Brenda Novak Book Group at the end of the last year. She is one of a few new-to-me favorite authors. There is just the right amount of detail for my taste. She keeps me wanting to read more and more with her cliff-hanging chapter endings, moving on to other characters in the following chapters, eventually you get back to the cliff-hanger. I cannot read fast enough! Thank you to NetGalley for this advanced copy. I'm looking forward to reading other Jodi Thomas books!

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Jodi Thomas is the ultimate storyteller and her 4th book in her Honey Creek series is no exception. She knows how to pull you in and keep you wanting more. It’s full of romance, suspense and drama. You don’t want to miss this continuing story of Honey Creek drama. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to read this ARC and give an honest review of this great continuing story. I look forward to #5.

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A very sweet, heartwarming story, showing various couples finding love, “Sunday at the Sunflower Inn” (Kensington Books, Zebra), by Jodi Thomas, is about ordinary people when something extraordinary intersects their lives.
All couples and characters featuring in this story are unique, interesting and compelling – the alluring Tucson Smith, Jam, the elder gentleman and the sweet, shy lady, the two very young sweethearts.
My favorite is McCoy, the anti-hero who dresses like a cowboy but isn’t a cowboy, a man without luck and with a dispassionate lack of hope, yet so attractive with his knack for fixing things. The laconic relationship with his grandfather is so fun to watch.
Some aspects felt too fictional or a bit far-fetched, yet this was another very enjoyable book in the Honey Creek series.

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Another great story by Jodi Thomas. We’re introduced to several characters, young, old, and in between, with their own stories that quickly become intertwined in the small town of Honey Creek. A story of hope, healing, second chances, new friendships, new beginnings, and more than one HEA. There are fairies, a runaway, maybe a dead soldier, bad luck, danger, and drama.

I was a little disappointed with a couple of things, though. At the end, some things just seemed to be resolved a little too quickly and easily. Also, when Charles was on one of his evening walks, he sees something and catalogs it inside his head. We’re told about his great memory. Why was this even in the story if nothing ever came of it? Still, it was an enjoyable story and I wish it could have been longer.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book, provided by NetGalley and the publisher. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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We meet more of the charming residents of Honey Creek in this new instalment.

Cafe owner Jam feels like love has passed her my, but an encounter with a military man who appears out of the river, has things looking up Jam.

Elderly Mr Winston and his lady love Lilly decide to get engaged after a life of reasonable pureness so they can become lovers.

Out of towner McCoy comes to stay with his unknown grandfather after an accident that leaves him with no home or money. In Honey Creek may he finally find love and family?

Melody hides in Honey Creek after her parents find out she is dating Michael. But will he figure out that is where she is?

Jodi Thomas always does a wonderful job of intertwining the storylines of different charcters and bringing in linked charcters from other books. She also leaves the stories open ended, so these charcters could be visitied again in future books.

Other element I've really enjoyed about the Honey Creek series is the mystery that is a sub plot in each book. In this one it is the photos of a dead army officer that are found, only the crime scene shows no sign of a crime being committed.

I'm already looking forward to seeing what the residents of Honey Creek will get up to next.

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Loved it. A book that I didn't want to end, but kept reading to get to everyone's possible happily ever after. I am eager for the next one. I know I have to wait a year, but it will be worth it, I'm sure. I laughed. I cried, both happy and sad tears.

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I really enjoyed this book by Jodi Thomas. It was very well done and I would definitely recommend this to anyone.

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The stories set in Honey Grove, Texas never fail to entertain, and each has its own wonderful cast of characters with story arcs that intersect in the most delightful and endearing ways.

Readers will smile with Mr. Winston and his "new love" as they explore what a relationship means to octogenarians. Following along as he courts Miss Lilly always brought a smile, and it was neat to see how the fact of their coupleness was accepted, and even celebrated, by the rest of the residents of Honey Creek.

Then there's Jam, the owner of the Honey Creek Cafe, and her "Sergeant" who appears like some mystical being from the river in the middle of a storm. Their relationship isn't as straightforward as the elder couple, but is no less satisfying in it's conclusion.

McCoy is the "broken cowboy" according to Sunshine, the five-year-old neighbor who is smarter than her years and is known as one of the fairies that visit McCoy's grandfather's farm. McCoy keeps getting hurt, and Sunshine keeps asking him if he's still broken. Simple, almost silly, on the surface, but in context it is such an endearing exchange and offers the first crack in a façade that McCoy has built around himself through the years. He comes from a long line of men who didn't express emotions, and that's just fine with him, until it isn't.

Complications in the story, other than the romantic, are resolved a little too easily and quickly for me to rate this book a perfect 5 stars. To avoid any spoilers, I won't be specific about that, leaving it to other readers to decide for themselves. Overall, I enjoyed the book and do recommend it to readers who like a sweet romance with wonderful characters.

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Another great addition to the Honey Creek book series. Loved getting to see the regular characters again.

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A truly lovely story/stories. The book centres around four separate stories which eventually intertwine. It’s a meandering book which the reader can pick up and put down at leisure. I wish I had read the other books in the series first but it can stand alone as a book.

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