Books
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Description: A young baker, a sunlight girl steps into
shadows. A lush vampire tale.
In an era where it seems every other author is writing
vampire stories, Robin McKinley takes her typically different spin.
McKinley creates a wonderful world here that I wouldn’t
mind visiting again. This is a world just after an apocalypse. When most of the
world lies in ruins except a few small cities that survived the magical deluge.
At first, it seemed a only a few degrees from our world. But as I progressed
through the book, the degrees grew larger and more and more complex.
Rae, or Sunshine as she is called, is a young baker. A
barely managed to graduate from high school molder of dough and chocolate
delights. Sunshine, whose gift is the light of sun.
And then there’s the vampires, a dark wave that threatens
to overwhelm the world in a hundred years.
Liquid poetic descriptions, interesting characters, and a
well realized world.
Although, despite what the cover says, less of a vampire
romance, and more of a vampire adventure.
Deerskin by Robin McKinley
Description: A terribly beautiful king and queen and a
horrible beautiful canker at the heart of the kingdom.
Based on the Percault story Donkeyskin.
It’s horrifying, the breaking of the most basic of all
human taboos. Moon blood dreams and isolated cabins in the snow. Winters that
last five years and moon maidens fleeing what they would not know.
This a McKinley story that I don’t often revisit. It’s too
uncomfortable.
And yet, I love the non-linear flow of the story. The
inevitable and great tide that is the ultimate conclusion to the story.
It’s less of a novel and more of a poem in prose.
Thus, I suppose it’s inevitable that I like it.
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