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Sunshine

By Robin McKinley

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| Others | 9780142411100

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aA gripping, funny, page-turning, pretty much perfect work of magical
literaturea (Neil Gaiman)afirst time in trade paperback. There are places in the
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The Best Reviews: Robin McKinley, Sunshine

"An excellent paranormal!" This book has been recommended to me several times. Finally, I had the opportunity to read it and wow! I'm just sorry I haven't had a chance to read it before now. Rae (Sunshine) Seddon works in her stepfather Charlie's cof ... (read full critics)

thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

Sunshine

Desert Isle Keeper Review Sunshine Sunshine Blaise is a twenty-something coffeehouse cook who wakes up at 4:30 a.m. each day to make her works of art: cinnamon rolls, muffins, and the like. She lives to make people happy with her food, and is happies ... (read full critics)

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10 Reviews

Could have done with 100 pages less

I wasn't able to finish the book. It gets two stars because it's refreshing to see a paranormal romance that doesn't involve the girl falling in love with the vampire in the first two pages, plus Sunshine had her nice moments.
However this could do nothing against the crazy amount of infodump the r ... (continue)

I wasn't able to finish the book. It gets two stars because it's refreshing to see a paranormal romance that doesn't involve the girl falling in love with the vampire in the first two pages, plus Sunshine had her nice moments.
However this could do nothing against the crazy amount of infodump the reader is subjected to at the worst possible moments. Whenever a climactic plot point was approaching, the story would stop on its tracks, breaking pace completely, so I could get ten pages of explanations that had been kept from me until then, and could have been mentioned before. Of course this brand new information would suddenly change everything we were expecting. It was bewildering the first time and got progressively infuriating. I got halfway through the book and this had happened already four or five times times. Along with the fact that Sunshine will spend 40 pages running around the exact same ideas ("oh no! does this mean i have a bond with a vampire? doesn't it? does it? a bond with a vampire! how do i feel about this? do i have one? no? oh god, i may have a bond with a vampire!") while hiding important information that should have, at some point, creeped up in her mental soliloquies instead of being dumped on you the next time she faces a crisis ("surprise! i'm a wizard!").

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Adhara said on Feb 13, 2012 | Add your feedback

I wish I could say something different ...but guys let's face the truth...this book is just...disappointing!

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Randall Flagg said on Jan 7, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Good book

I really liked this book. It has interesting plot. Maybe a little slowmoving but still good. I would have liked it even more if the end was a little bit different. I had a feeling that the book was cut off short, though it wasn't. Just the satisfaction from the read book didn't come.

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Sense361 said on Feb 17, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

I don't want to be mean or anything, but was it hard to read this book or what. I guess the story was good, I guess the characters were okay, I guess the plot was original (quite) and the writing was good. But I just COULDN'T FIND IT IN MYSELF TO FOCUS on the book!! I felt myself drifting away ALL T ... (continue)

I don't want to be mean or anything, but was it hard to read this book or what. I guess the story was good, I guess the characters were okay, I guess the plot was original (quite) and the writing was good. But I just COULDN'T FIND IT IN MYSELF TO FOCUS on the book!! I felt myself drifting away ALL THE TIME. And that's something I never do!! I had to go back a few pages over and over again, to remember where exactly I was. Sometimes I was really proud of myself, because I was so focused on the book, but after a few minutes I would realize that, what the hell, I was so busy congratulating myself that I had forgotten to pay attention to the book. Again.
So I didn't exactly dislike it, but I didn't really get into it, either, and it was a challenge to read it. Actually, there were so many details and tangents, that I'm not sure I would have been able to follow the plot continuously even if I was focused. And, by the way, chapters are great inventions, you know. For people who can't read all the book at once, who I guess is everyone.

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barnsdale11 said on Feb 4, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

A near-future story about vampires and other weirdness. I enjoyed the book, though the narrator has a tendency to ramble on a bit with some stream of consciousness commentary. Not your typical tragic vampire romance story.

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Braydin said on Feb 17, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

I'm sorry but this book just didn't do it for me. I love vampire books, but this one was painful to read. The author just babbles on and on. In my opinion this book could have been at least 50 pages shorter (without all the rambling).

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buzzkiss said on Dec 21, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback