Comments on: Sunshine by Robin Mckinley

by: Jessica Madden

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 03:19:00 +0000

Thank you for not loving that book! I thought I was the only one that wanted to gouge my eyes out in sheer boredom a hundred pages in. And you’re totally right — it’s not a BAD book, but I kept reading and reading (and READING) to try and find the damn plot and when she finally met the vampire…they gave her super-powers and he LEFT. That was when the book hit the wall for me.

I compared Sunshine in my LJ to asking someone a yes or no question and getting a 30 minute diatribe in response. Do you still get the answer? Yeah, I guess so, but there’s a ton of unnecessary crap in between.

by: bam

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:20:00 +0000

It’ll be up before this weekend, Kristie. I’m not done with the review.

by: Kristie (J)

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:32:00 +0000

Hey - what happened to Heart of the Dragon? I just finished that one myself and was looking forward to your - as always brilliantly funny - review

by: meljean brook

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:47:00 +0000

I liked Sunshine, mostly for the first portion of it (LOVE the scenes when they are trapped together). I think I skimmed the third quarter of the book, and then got back into it for the last action sequence. Strange that I enjoyed it as much as I did with skimming parts of it, but it did feel as if the parts were greater than the sum.

by: Megan Frampton

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:13:00 +0000

I loved Sunshine, but can see your problems with it…I think I tried to read a Dark Hunter once, rolled my eyes, and never went back.

by: bam

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:38:00 +0000

Pat, I totally agree with you. What really pissed me off about this book is that every time you start thinking that something cool is about to happen (Ms. Mckinley can really set up a scene), we get some bullshit with Sunshine babbling about her goddamn cinnamon rolls. Double-U-tee-Eff, mate!

I hate the Dark-hunter series. What I hate more about it is that no matter how awful it is, I read it, anyway. I’m a steenkin’ masochist.

by: Pat Kirby

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:36:00 +0000

Hee. I think I love you just for “hating on” Kenyon’s books. I don’t flame, but every time I read some drooling fangirl gushing about a Dark Hunter book, I have to wrestle down a huge bonfire.

Sunshine is problematic for me. It is on my keeper shelf. Why? The world building. But…I could never actually read the entire thing again because of…the world building. Sunshine can be in the middle of some interesting action and then–PLOP!–exposition dump. She rambles on from one paranormal topic to the next and I often forget what was going on in the first place.

Weird. What was McKinley’s editor thinking?