No human has ever allied with one of the Darkest Others. With a vampire. There is - there can be - no common ground between them. The dark Wars proved that. But Sunshine is the baker at a coffee shop; she gets up before dawn to make cinnamon rolls. The long shadow cast by the Wars does not touch her. ntil she is kidnapped by vampires in a treacherous manoeuvre against one of their own, and she knows she will not live to see another morning. ut she does. And if a vampire saves her life, doesn't she owe him the same favour-?
I really liked the beginning of this book, probably the first third with Sunshine kidnapped and trapped and having to figure all that out. After that, though, I wasn't as interested in what was happening. As much as I love [a:Robin McKinley|5339|Robin McKinley|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg]'s work and the world she created in this book and the sense of magic, the plot in the last two thirds / half of the book was surprisingly uninteresting for me.
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.
