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Sunshine is a brilliantly creative novel, and the best paranormal "romance" I've ever read. The book's main character is a normal human woman with faults. She barely graduated from high school, she a simple baker, she begins the story completely average. The vampire is deadly, disturbing, and not alive, yet Ms. McKinley uses that to the story's advantage. He isn't a dashing rake, but a creepy monster.
For the sake of avoiding spoilers, the end of the book and the development of her and the vampire's relationship is one of the most satisfying and believable conclusions. Or if world building is your thing, instead, Ms. McKinley's modern-America-but-not is fascinating to learn about, thanks to skillfully dropped clues and description.
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Sunshine by Robin Mckinley
slr2moons, January 19, 2012
Sunshine is a brilliantly creative novel, and the best paranormal "romance" I've ever read. The book's main character is a normal human woman with faults. She barely graduated from high school, she a simple baker, she begins the story completely average. The vampire is deadly, disturbing, and not alive, yet Ms. McKinley uses that to the story's advantage. He isn't a dashing rake, but a creepy monster.For the sake of avoiding spoilers, the end of the book and the development of her and the vampire's relationship is one of the most satisfying and believable conclusions. Or if world building is your thing, instead, Ms. McKinley's modern-America-but-not is fascinating to learn about, thanks to skillfully dropped clues and description.
I can only hope she gives us a sequel one day!