Well, I finished it.Yep. All 405 pages.
This is one of the first books that after completion, I know there isn't ONE student that I could recommend this to.
I had REALLY high hopes for this. I'm not going to say it was ALL due to the title of the text, or the Neil Gaiman's comment "Pretty much perfect." But, I had hope. Yes, it did say it was a "vampire book," but I know of McKinley's other texts, and she isn't Stephanie Meyers by any means.
But I didn't realize how superfluously wordy McKinley actually is. At least with Sunshine.
This story had SO much potential. Set in the future, magical abilities, "Others" inhabiting the earth, but O. M. G. When pages upon pages would go by with the heroine rambling IN HER HEAD about something in the past, or whining about being alive, or whining about dying, or whining about being friends with a vampire--I wanted to give up and throw this book against the wall.
But, I kept going. I wanted SO MUCH to like this book. I just can't do it. I liked about two characters in the book, and neither the old lady landlord or the vampire Constantine are featured enough to justify reading the drivel on the rest of the pages.
I am actually angry that such a great idea was totally wasted on absolutely crap writing.
