{"id":3552,"date":"2021-04-07T14:13:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2021-04-07T14:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:13:58","slug":"book-review-sunshine-by-robin-mckinley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3552","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  Sunshine by Robin McKinley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/8088.Sunshine\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/8088.Sunshine\">Sunshine<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/5339.Robin_McKinley\">Robin McKinley<\/a><br><br>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/3931653624\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><br><br><br>I really dislike vampire novels. I find them clich\u00e9d and silly (other than Bram Stoker&#8217;s Dracula, of course). And, if it weren&#8217;t for the fact that Robin McKinley is one of my favorite fantasy writers, I wouldn&#8217;t have read this one either.<br>But I&#8217;m glad I did. This book is a bit different than many of the author&#8217;s other books. The language of the book is more colloquial than is typical, and her world building is a bit more casual, too. Also, unusually for her, the book is narrated in the first person. But the plot is interesting and original and ambivalent. And, as a baker myself, I like that the main character is also a baker. (She&#8217;s evidently also a morning person&#8211;we do NOT share that character trait.)<br>Vampires are a central theme in this book, obviously, but not either good and or evil. And the book is a thoughtful study on what happens when you are confronted with a stereotype that you discover not to be true.<br>It isn&#8217;t perhaps my favorite of the author&#8217;s books, but it is perhaps the most thought-provoking of her works so far. I would have given it 3.5 stars but rounded up as she is one of my favorite fantasy authors.<br><br><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunshine by Robin McKinley My rating: 4 of 5 stars I really dislike vampire novels. I find them clich\u00e9d and silly (other than Bram Stoker&#8217;s Dracula, of course). And, if it weren&#8217;t for the fact that Robin McKinley is one of my favorite fantasy writers, I wouldn&#8217;t have read this one either.But I&#8217;m glad I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[336,229,596],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-robin-mckinley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-Vi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3553,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions\/3553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}