scarr
Written on Feb 29, 2020
There are places in the world where darkness rules, where it's unwise to walk.But the lake had been quiet for years. . . .She never heard them coming. Of course you don't, when they're vampires.
They took her clothes and sneakers. They dressed her in a long red gown. And they shackled her to the wall of an abandoned mansion - within easy reach of her fellow prisoner.
She knows he is a vampire. She knows that she's to be his dinner, and that when he is finished with her, she will be dead. Yet when dawn breaks, she is still alive. And now he needs her to help him survive the day...
- ISBN10 0553815830
- ISBN13 9780553815832
- Publish Date 1 October 2004 (first published 30 September 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 480
- Language English
Reviews
e_rodz_leb
Written on Oct 31, 2017
I've read two books by McKinley before and they were very different from each other, but mostly fantasies. Rae, is known by all as Sunshine because she likes to soak up the sun. Sunshine is a baker and I loved all the talk about baked goods (after all, I bake too!), she's 25 and in a relationship, she's know by the whole town and she likes her privacy. One night, to escape a fight with her mother, she decides to go out to the old family house out in the lake. There, she's abducted by a group of vampires and meets Cam. They are both held prisoner and manage to escape together. One thing I need to mention is that Sunshine rambles. A lot. She starts talking about one thing and then rambles about something else, on and on. I found it sometimes useful, but often aggravating.
The vampire lore in Sunshine adopts some of the usual aspects such as burning in the sun, being able to do compulsion and and of course needing blood. However, the vampires in this post-vampire-wars look like death, they are completely silent, they stink and mostly kill all their victims.
Cam is different in the sense that he doesn't eat Sunshine and instead they help each other to escape and even bigger evil. Cam tries really hard to make himself a little less threatening and inhuman so it's easier for Sunshine to be around him. The form a pact and then later an unexpected bond.
Needless to say, the world building is intricate and quite amazing. There are all sorts of "Others", like fey, weres, wizards, witches, goblins, and a lot of rules and politics that regulate what they can do or cannot do. Even two types of police, one for humans and one for the "Others". The writing was very imaginative, this world has new words, new technology, new beings. I loved it!
The ending is a bit open ended and it makes me wonder if McKinley had other books set in this world in mind.
Overall
I really enjoyed Sunshine. For the life of me, I don't understand why McKinley didn't turn this amazing world into a series. There is so much potential to it, including the sort of open ending and the strong connection between Sunshine and Con. I'm sure a lot of reviewers over the years had said the same: *more pretty please*This review was originally posted on Quite the Novel Idea
lizarodz
Written on Oct 31, 2017
I've read two books by McKinley before and they were very different from each other, but mostly fantasies. Rae, is known by all as Sunshine because she likes to soak up the sun. Sunshine is a baker and I loved all the talk about baked goods (after all, I bake too!), she's 25 and in a relationship, she's know by the whole town and she likes her privacy. One night, to escape a fight with her mother, she decides to go out to the old family house out in the lake. There, she's abducted by a group of vampires and meets Cam. They are both held prisoner and manage to escape together. One thing I need to mention is that Sunshine rambles. A lot. She starts talking about one thing and then rambles about something else, on and on. I found it sometimes useful, but often aggravating.
The vampire lore in Sunshine adopts some of the usual aspects such as burning in the sun, being able to do compulsion and and of course needing blood. However, the vampires in this post-vampire-wars look like death, they are completely silent, they stink and mostly kill all their victims.
Cam is different in the sense that he doesn't eat Sunshine and instead they help each other to escape and even bigger evil. Cam tries really hard to make himself a little less threatening and inhuman so it's easier for Sunshine to be around him. The form a pact and then later an unexpected bond.
Needless to say, the world building is intricate and quite amazing. There are all sorts of "Others", like fey, weres, wizards, witches, goblins, and a lot of rules and politics that regulate what they can do or cannot do. Even two types of police, one for humans and one for the "Others". The writing was very imaginative, this world has new words, new technology, new beings. I loved it!
The ending is a bit open ended and it makes me wonder if McKinley had other books set in this world in mind.
Overall
I really enjoyed Sunshine. For the life of me, I don't understand why McKinley didn't turn this amazing world into a series. There is so much potential to it, including the sort of open ending and the strong connection between Sunshine and Con. I'm sure a lot of reviewers over the years had said the same: *more pretty please*This review was originally posted on Quite the Novel Idea
ladygrey
Written on Jan 1, 2007
Also, the final confrontation was too abstract for me to get my mind around, a lot like the end of [b:Spindle's End|77368|Spindle's End|Robin McKinley|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900108s/77368.jpg|2984336]. Which I enjoyed even better the second time. It's very likely that if I were to read [b:Sunshine|8088|Sunshine|Robin McKinley|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255668220s/8088.jpg|2321294] a second time I'd like it better.