I came upon this book as a suggestion from an NPR "What should I read next?" flow chart. I said I wanted vampires, but scary and not romantic ones. It's true that the main character Sunshine doesn't go on and on about the beauty and smoothness of "her" vampire, in fact he's even described as ugly and hulking! No, vampires are very dangerous in this strange setting of a world a lot like ours, but changed and different in many ways because of "Others" and magic-handlers. It took a while for me to get my head around this slightly-off environment. One thing that I absolutely did NOT like was the writing style. This book is told through Sunshine's POV, but it mimic's a person's train of thought a little too well. I had to read and re-read many sentences as her narrations went on tangents I couldn't connect. It got very exhausting. Also, I was reading this book for a couple weeks during work breaks, so the jumpy writing was even harder to follow. I liked it well enough, and was always wanting to pick it back up to finish it, but it's not a book I care to read again.