A girl living in the
maybe not so far future where the humankind knows about the creatures of
the night and then some meets a guy who happens to be a vampire (her
enemy in general) but their common enemy unites them and they start
bonding. How is it it different from the gazillion books with the same
topic I've (and I bet even YOU HAVE) read?
The writitng style - is absolutely excellent and it reads fast and leaves you craving for more. It's entertaining and funny.
The protagonist - even though the "hidden prodigy" theme is here, she's so normal. She failed at school, winded up in a bakery, fights with her mom constantly, has moods etc. And all she asks of life is to feed people. And to be in as much sun as possible (her nickname is, after all, Sunshine).
The romance - is very subtle and well executed. Sunshine has a cool biker boyfriend who might be threatened by the arrival of the "other" one but you don't really want her to pick sides or leave one for another. It's not even complicated. Just almost nonexistent.
The universe - oh boy, I absolutely adored the setting after the Voodoo Wars with bad spots where nothing could thrive, those living protection tattoos, the charms and wards and all those inanimate objects with life and all those people with some demon or were blood in them.
All in all, it's dark and thrilling, those who like sarcasm here and there will find it, those of you who like action will see it, those of you who like supernatural elements will be surprised and those of you who like romantic element will probably have to go somewhere else since it's a different kind of romance (I'm saying this because the blurbs on the cover describe it as romantic). If I think of it, I've read books like this but none of them was so good. All these clichés which are in every vampire book well so well-balanced in here that it made a perfect story.
The writitng style - is absolutely excellent and it reads fast and leaves you craving for more. It's entertaining and funny.
The protagonist - even though the "hidden prodigy" theme is here, she's so normal. She failed at school, winded up in a bakery, fights with her mom constantly, has moods etc. And all she asks of life is to feed people. And to be in as much sun as possible (her nickname is, after all, Sunshine).
The romance - is very subtle and well executed. Sunshine has a cool biker boyfriend who might be threatened by the arrival of the "other" one but you don't really want her to pick sides or leave one for another. It's not even complicated. Just almost nonexistent.
The universe - oh boy, I absolutely adored the setting after the Voodoo Wars with bad spots where nothing could thrive, those living protection tattoos, the charms and wards and all those inanimate objects with life and all those people with some demon or were blood in them.
All in all, it's dark and thrilling, those who like sarcasm here and there will find it, those of you who like action will see it, those of you who like supernatural elements will be surprised and those of you who like romantic element will probably have to go somewhere else since it's a different kind of romance (I'm saying this because the blurbs on the cover describe it as romantic). If I think of it, I've read books like this but none of them was so good. All these clichés which are in every vampire book well so well-balanced in here that it made a perfect story.
GENRE: dark tale of believable characters
FANGS OUT: the story reads so wellFANGS RETRACTING: let's not retract them, okay?
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