Sunshine
- 416
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
- Mythopoeic Awards
- NPR Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
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About the book
Sunshine is a fantasy novel featuring vampires written by Robin McKinley and published by Berkley Publishing Group in 2003. Sunshine won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in 2004.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 135 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 47% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.9 | 16 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 119 | 88% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“So, this book was weird. I feel like nothing actually happened. It's almost as if the author was setting up a world for a series that never actually developed. I did like the characters, but that's about it. This is definitely an adult book. I…”
“This was resoundingly ‘meh'. It wasn't quite paranormal romance, but it wasn't really a regular vampire book, either. There wasn't a whole lot of vampiring~. Sunshine is sort of just about a baker named Sunshine in what was sort of a post-apocalyptic US. There was…”
Frequently asked
How long is Sunshine?
It has 416 pages — shorter than 72% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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