"Sunshine" by Robin McKinley
Apr. 18th, 2007 07:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kerravonsenI just finished reading "Sunshine" by Robin McKinley. Now, I'd rate this author as a good tale-spinner, but I don't like vampires. I especially don't like sexy "vampires are just misunderstood bad boys" kind of vampire, and from reading descriptions of this book, I thought that's what it would be like, so I didn't bother with it for years.
But then someone said that I'd probably like it. So this week I read it.
I'm not quite sure what I think. On the plus side, I was very absorbed, it was un-put-downable. I really wanted to find out what happened next, how on earth our heroine was going to survive.
Another plus was, the vampires were really evil, and what's more, really alien and creepy.
I did like how the heroine just kept on wishing it would all go away and leave her to her cinnamon rolls. It wasn't a grand fantasy Good Versus Evol; it was "OMG I'm gonna die!" lurching from one crisis to the next, which felt much more realistic.
On the other hand, I'm not sure I actually want to read it again. There weren't bits that I savoured (unlike, say, certain scenes in "The Blue Sword" which I love going back to), and there was an awful lot of ick in there.
But then someone said that I'd probably like it. So this week I read it.
I'm not quite sure what I think. On the plus side, I was very absorbed, it was un-put-downable. I really wanted to find out what happened next, how on earth our heroine was going to survive.
Another plus was, the vampires were really evil, and what's more, really alien and creepy.
I did like how the heroine just kept on wishing it would all go away and leave her to her cinnamon rolls. It wasn't a grand fantasy Good Versus Evol; it was "OMG I'm gonna die!" lurching from one crisis to the next, which felt much more realistic.
On the other hand, I'm not sure I actually want to read it again. There weren't bits that I savoured (unlike, say, certain scenes in "The Blue Sword" which I love going back to), and there was an awful lot of ick in there.
