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since joel is being a slowpoke, i am going to write this review before i forget everything i was/am thinking about it and it gets lost in too-many-books-past.
yeah, so i had no idea this book was about vampires.
but, karen, you have voted for both elizabeth and mariel's review of this book, surely you read reviews before you vote!! surely you don't just "insta-vote" and RUIN goodreads.com for the rest of us???
yeah, yeah, yeah.
to be fair, i did read elizabeth's review but it was ages ago, when i ha ...more
yeah, so i had no idea this book was about vampires.
but, karen, you have voted for both elizabeth and mariel's review of this book, surely you read reviews before you vote!! surely you don't just "insta-vote" and RUIN goodreads.com for the rest of us???
yeah, yeah, yeah.
to be fair, i did read elizabeth's review but it was ages ago, when i ha ...more
Sunshine is a young baker who makes incredible cinnamon rolls, dates bikers, and lives in constant danger in an alternate US. In her world, vampires, weres, witches and fey are all real...and humans are always at their mercy. Only by sticking together and plastering themselves, their dwellings, and even their motorbikes with protective charms can humans even survive a day. Given this, Sunshine is understandably upset when she's kidnapped as bait by a group of vampires.
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this book is a jumbled mess. there's a good story in there somewhere, but it's buried under a bunch of repetitive, yet unclear, overly descriptive word chunks. McKinley is a well-established author, so I don't know if this was just an early book or a rough draft, but there's a ton of "telling" instead of "showing". the urban fantasy/vampire that's not as bad as the rest of them/sorta romance/discovering one's hidden talents genre is full to the brim, so there's no need to waste time on an exampl
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McKinley ranks as a favorite, possibly, in a list constantly in flux, THE favorite author I have. Sunshine played with her voice and was clearly a strict attempt to defy classification as a young adult book. She definitely took it into the adult realm, but while I enjoyed the book as a whole I felt her attempts to go into sexual language were both awkward and unneeded.
I did not like this. I keep thinking it will win me over in retrospect but that is a lie. I will say that the last ten percent was a lot better than the entire rest of the book. The premise and world building are fascinating but I could not stand Sunshine's narrative voice. Also the vampires were way too corpse adjacent for me to be able to get there with Sunshine.
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It took me longer than I expected to read this, probably because there was more of a fantasy element than I realized. I enjoyed the relationship between Sunshine and Constantine, although I'd hoped for more (something more like Twilight, I guess). It certainly had a lot of dark atmosphere, and I was intrigued by the premise.
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I fell in love with this book over 3 years ago when i borrowed it from a local library. It is a beautifully written tale of Vampires, wars and Pastry makers. An amazing amazing book please read it
So bad, especially for Robin McKinley, but I just couldn't stop reading!
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Jul 12, 2007
Stella
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Nancy Pearl recommended this to be because I liked Twilight.
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