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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780515138818 ISBN: 0515138819 Label: Jove Manufacturer: Jove Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: November 30, 2004 Publisher: Jove Studio: Jove Editorial Review: Product Description: There hadn't been any trouble out at the lake for years, and Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts. Vampires never entered her mind. Until they found her. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Not much Vampire in "Sunshine"Vampires are all the rage lately, so I was looking forward to reading this book. I thought this book was mostly about vampires, but it's actually about a girl named Sunshine who is a baker and has occasional chance encounters with a vampire named Constantine. The vampire plot line takes a backseat to Rae "Sunshine" Seddons meandering explanations of her everyday dilly-dallies. I'll admit the first encounter is compelling and the author reels you in when she alludes that Sunshine may have other ... Read More Rating: - So much potential...Such a poor execution! McKinely's "Beauty" is one of my all time favorite fairytale re-tellings. When I figured out Sunshine was a modern retelling of the same tale, I snatched it up! Oh, how I wanted to love this book. Con is a fresh take on the ubiquitous bad-boy vampire that many other author's have tried to hash out, and failed. Sunshine (Rae) is a bit annoying, but equally as flawed and compelling as Con. Together, they could have gone places. Except that ... Read More Rating:  - If you hate dialogue, you'll love this book.Rae "Sunshine" Seddon is the world's best cinnamon roll baker, or at least she will smack you over the head with that idea until you start believing it. She's a pastry chef in a conspicuous diner filled with possibly-quirky regulars that we don't get to hear much of because we spend our time in Sunshine's head, either in long expository paragraphs about her world of the paranormal (which reminds me: McKinley gives no reason for the explanation role of the narrator. There is no, "I am writing this story ... Read More Rating:  - Vampires and BakingI'm a foodie, so it's more than a little fun to read a story where the protagonist obsesses about food, food creation, feeding people, food gadgets, and the assorted food mania that foodies get into. I've loved Robin McKinley stories since I ran into them in middle school a bajillion years ago (heh), and I still love them, but I really feel that her writing has improved in a really discernable way. (Unlike some vampire story authors I could name. harumph.) The timing and pacing ... Read More Rating: - Cinnamon and chocolate, meet blood and death...I never thought I'd find a novel that married my two guilty pleasures: baking decadent desserts drenched in chocolate and laden with butter and cream, and vampires. Robin McKinley, best known for her exquisite Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, marries both of these passions in the luscious Sunshine. Rae Seddon, known to family and friends as Sunshine due to her attraction to sunlight, is a talented baker at a post-apocalyptic coffeehouse in New Arcadia. Her specialties include Cinnamon ... Read More |
