SUNSHINE by Robin McKinley

There are places in the world where darkness rules, where it’s unwise to walk. But 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…

Check out this book on Goodreads: Sunshine https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8088.Sunshine

This book is very hard to describe. At the beginning everything seems mundane, even boring. We meet Sunshine who is mostly occupied with cinnamon rolls and follow her everyday life for a while. That is until Robin McKinley pulls the rug from under one’s feet and the world the book is set in is revealed to be alien, dangerous and magical. She does this by casually mentioning things that happened prior to the plot. It’s as if the bubble the reader was in bursts and all of a sudden a larger, more intruiging but also more frightening reality can be perceived. This is done so well that I experienced a moment of disorientation and had to check if I was still reading the same book or if I had overlooked some hints. McKinley does this a couple of times in this wonderful and strange story.
The plot starts moving more straightforward once the reader gets acquainted with the characters and the world they inhabit. The mysterious bond formed between the heroine and the truly inhuman vampire is fascinating til the end.

Here is a review by Sherwood Smith:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35623171

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