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Marcel Ossendrijver _ossdesign — It's about a group of vampires who are working at a radio station. The opportunity to play the music from "their" era, along with a safe place to keep up with current events, helps them keep their sanity. Sex, vampires and rock 'n' roll - what's not to like? The main character (a human) is a long way from perfect, but that makes her very interesting - and she's got enough "good" in her to make her likable. Not too cheesy, just enough blood without being over-the-top, just enough sex without being too sleazy, and lots of great song references - there was very little I didn't like about this book. I'm excited to hear that it's just the first in a series!

Sammy Oliva sammybazzie5ff — I picked up this book expecting comedy, and that is what I got for the first few chapters. After that it got a bit more serious than what I expected, but overall it was still entertaining. Ends of kind of a downer.

Jasmin Williams jasminwill13c5 — Lyrical essays as the author pays attention to nature, grief, loss, hope, and joy.

Nabeela Najjar _abeela_ajjar — For quite a while I thought there was something special about long-time favorite books. Something like a block or a mental brick wall that kept me from being able to put words on a page and describe how I loved that story, and how much the reading and re-reading of it changed me. Well, there IS a special magic surrounding old, favorite and familiar tales, but I’ve worked myself around to being able to write about them (a bit). Robin McKinley is one of my most favorite authors, and her adult fantasy (paranormal? urban fantasy?) Sunshine is one of her best books. The other day I needed sunshine in my life, and I picked it up off the shelf for an extremely well-timed re-read. Sunshine is a young, perfectly ordinary (she thinks!) girl with a loving, messy, normal family. The only thing is, her world is full of the Others, including demons, Weres, and the Darkest Others, vampires. But you can get through life pretty well as long as you avoid the dangerous parts of town and have a modicum of good sense and luck. At least, that’s how it should be. It turns out that Sunshine’s life won’t be so simple after she decides to drive out to the lake one summer night. My friends know about my thing for zombies, but I usually protest that I don’t read about vampires. This is the book that proves me a hypocrite. It’s not that these are seductive vampires. No, they are the utterly alien, terror-in-the-night kind. But as Sunshine discovers, her destiny lies in a gray area, and she won’t get to pick the cut-and-dried human ‘side.’ She’ll have to live with impossibilities. The story that takes her on that journey is fascinating and (as I said) an all-time favorite. McKinley has created an entire world with unnamed Wars in recent history, a vampire menace, partblood discrimination, and a friendly coffee shop at its center. However, the story’s focus is Sunshine, and her first-person narration is what makes the book work. She’s self-deprecating, funny, afraid, and wants to cling to the normality she knows. At the same time, she finds that unnameable courage and strength needed to face evil, to keep on living, and to choose the right thing, even when it all seems bleak. She’s no perfect heroine, and that, I think, is one of the reasons why readers will fall in love with her. The thing that resonated most with me this re-read was the juxtaposition of Sunshine’s primal urge to make food and feed it to people (a metaphor for creation and nurture), and her mission/calling to do what she can to destroy evil (killing, getting her hands dirty). Sunshine also grapples with the questions of how to be a good person while doing something that she fundamentally disagrees with, how to keep the balance of light and dark in her life, and if there is such a thing as a visible taint of evil. I find that the best books will speak different messages to you at different points in time. I felt very adult this time ‘round, reading Sunshine. It was… interesting. In any case, it’s still a wonderful, immediate, funny, dark sort of pleasure, and I’m sure it’ll remain on the favorites shelf for years to come. Recommended for: anyone interested in paranormal and urban fantasy, fans of Emma Bull, Neil Gaiman and Sharon Shinn, and those who appreciate the full immersion experience in a character and fantastical world.