Shifting by Bethany Wiggins, 353 pages
18 year old Magdalene Mae has found herself tossed, once again, out of the current foster home she was in and placed in the care of her Social Worker's mother. Her long lists of arrests for nudity follow in her wake, but how does Magdalene explain it's because of her shifting during a full moon. Lately, though, her gift has been unpredictable and she is finding herself starting to change in the most inopportune moments. (Like during track practice.)
However, she finds her newest foster home in the tiny town of Silver City, New Mexico quite welcoming and a fresh new start -- if not for the school where she is bullied endlessly. She has landed her first job and now that she's on the cusp of adulthood, she is hoping that everything goes her way. Unfortunately, things start heading for the worse just as they started getting better. To complicate everything is the unwavering attention from high school popular rich kid - Bridger O'Connell. Bridger has a few secrets hiding as well and some could very well spell the end of Magdalene's life.
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Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Sunshine by Robin McKinley, 389 pages
A convoluted tale of half-bloods, vampires and humans -- oh my. I can't really explain what I read because it was so chalked full of details that the main story got lost in the middle of all the descriptions. I will try to sum it up. Sunshine, for whom the book is titled after, is a half blood. She discovers this after being captured by vampires as a type of sacrifice for another vampire - who is also being held captive. The two escape together and form a friendship/relationship that is hard to grasp entirely (again because of all the descriptiveness). Together, with the help of a special "police" force kind of like Scully and Moulder from the x-files, they hunt the head vampire and gang that held them captive to stop whatever fiendish plan the evil vampires have in mind. I did enjoy the whole concept of a world with "Others" ranging from vampires to demons to werepeople to magic users. I also enjoyed the dialogue when it was flowing really well -- far from any three or four paragraph descriptions of something. The whole concept of Sunshine being a fabulous pastry chef had me cracking a smile through the numbness of the lulls in the book. I'm still not quite sure what I read... but the end did make up for the monotony of the book.
A convoluted tale of half-bloods, vampires and humans -- oh my. I can't really explain what I read because it was so chalked full of details that the main story got lost in the middle of all the descriptions. I will try to sum it up. Sunshine, for whom the book is titled after, is a half blood. She discovers this after being captured by vampires as a type of sacrifice for another vampire - who is also being held captive. The two escape together and form a friendship/relationship that is hard to grasp entirely (again because of all the descriptiveness). Together, with the help of a special "police" force kind of like Scully and Moulder from the x-files, they hunt the head vampire and gang that held them captive to stop whatever fiendish plan the evil vampires have in mind. I did enjoy the whole concept of a world with "Others" ranging from vampires to demons to werepeople to magic users. I also enjoyed the dialogue when it was flowing really well -- far from any three or four paragraph descriptions of something. The whole concept of Sunshine being a fabulous pastry chef had me cracking a smile through the numbness of the lulls in the book. I'm still not quite sure what I read... but the end did make up for the monotony of the book.
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