Sunshine by Robin McKinley

I read this last summer when I was on my Robin McKinley kick.  This fell somewhere on the scale lower than Deerskin and the Blue Sword but well above Beauty.  Its a vampire book and in my opinion so superior to Stephanie Meyer's trash that it really shouldn't be in the same genre.  Its also described as "urban fantasy" which I suppose it is too-again, superior to most such.  In the book, Sunshine is an everyday girl facing the same issues as every other young adult trying to figure out their place in the world until boom-she is dropped into a vampire gang's torture game, meets the most compelling Constantine (of course he has a cool name) and starts to recall some not-so-normal things from her own past.  I like McKinley, I don't hate vampires (Meyer's books notwithstanding), fantasy is right up my alley and all in all, I liked this book quite a lot.  Worth the read. 

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