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by: Robin McKinley
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey 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
Sales Rank: 41092
Studio: Jove
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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.
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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 Baking
I'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
Rating: - To love this book is to love being enveloped in a story
This book is Robin McKinley's emotional masterpiece. What other reviewers seem to fail to acknowledge is that in reading this book, if you have ever been able to identify the times in your life you pulled the covers over you head after the alarm went off and those feelings associated with being human and being stubborn, then you can identify with Sunshine. We all prefer to read books that read how things should go. Every character is in a neat little easy pocket and every sub plot is explored and explained thoroughly. ... Read More
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