Sunshine

This has been on my TBR for a long time because I've heard raves about it, and I totally get why. I got sucked in immediately–usually I have a “home book” and a “lunch book” that I keep at work because I don't like to carry a book back and forth, but I carried Sunshine around until I finished it. This was a fun book to read after [b:The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim 16068956 The Story of Owen Dragon Slayer of Trondheim (The Story of Owen, #1) E.K. Johnston https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1385213342s/16068956.jpg 21861446] since both have a similar matter-of-fact approach to a fantasy world. But I found myself wishing McKinley had a bard to explain things to me just a liiittle bit more. I do like the effect of being dropped into a world and having to figure out the rules as you go along, to some extent, but here I was like “vampires can... dimension hop... I guess? Sure?”Also I'm sort of surprised there's not a sequel to this since it seems like a LOT of things were hinted at and then dropped, like is Mel a wizard or what.Also this book had a weird effect where like... I was into it and really wanted to find out what happened but simultaneously it felt draggy? I guess just because of Sunshine's long meandering mental soliloquies. Also a heads-up–I know this was originally published as adult fantasy and then repackaged as YA in the wake of Twilight. I think it's probably best described as New Adult, for its ~adult relationship content~, but yeah it's a good readalike for Twilight.