Helpful Score: 3
The beginning reminds me a lot of Nancy Baker's Kiss of the Vampire where a young woman is abducted and jailed with a vampire. This time it's a young woman who makes her living cooking cinnamon rolls (yum, I think I could live with that job) in a family run coffee shoppe. She has a close group of friends and a likable boyfriend and seems very content with the way her life is going until she's abducted by vampires and chained up with only a hungry, dying vampire for a companion. The writing is different from McKinley's lyrical, breathtakingly beautiful style (Deerskin, Beauty). This book seems more modern both in slang and subject matter and so far I'm enjoying it very much, though I did stumble over some of the narrative at first.
As the story progresses, and our heroine "Sunshine" has plenty of time to reflect on her past, we learn she possessess some inherited magical power that increases when she's in full sunlight. In this world vampires and "Other" creatures are commonplace.
This is a good read but not my favorite by Robin McKinley.
As the story progresses, and our heroine "Sunshine" has plenty of time to reflect on her past, we learn she possessess some inherited magical power that increases when she's in full sunlight. In this world vampires and "Other" creatures are commonplace.
This is a good read but not my favorite by Robin McKinley.
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