Black Sunshine

De: Karina Halle

Narrado por: Sofia Willingham

A week before Lenore Warwick's 21st birthday, she's kidnapped by the brooding and dangerous stranger with cold eyes and a lethal touch, who has been stalking her on San Francisco's fog-shrouded streets. Absolon "Solon" Stavig isn't your average criminal though. He's a centuries-old vampire who's caught between wanting to kill Lenore and wanting to save her.

You see Lenore, too, is a vampire. She just doesn't know it yet.

Taken by a pair of vampire slayers when she was just an infant, Lenore was raised never knowing her true nature. All Lenore knows is that she has (normal) parents who love her, that she's exceptionally smart, and she's squeamish around blood. But once she turns 21, she'll fully turn into a vampire, and Solon hopes he'll be there to guide her, opening her eyes to her deepest hunger...both sexual and otherwise.

But this turning can't be kept a secret. Soon both slayers and vampires are hunting Lenore, with only Solon and his unpredictable motley crew of vampires to save her.

Contains mature themes.

©2021 Karina Halle (P)2021 Tantor

Story was good/ narrator sucked

I didn’t like the narrator’s voice, she was too slow for me. I don’t think I’ll listen to the second book because it’s the same narrator.

If you can get past the narrator, then it’s a good story.

The storyline was entertaining and fast paced but my goodness the narrators mush mouth and reading statements with inflections of it being a question was distracting and tough to ignore.

The fact that I am not the target audience but became invested in the character says another for the writer.

First person narratives are not my favorite. I would have liked to know why Lenora was loved... what was loveable about her?

3.5 stars

While I did really enjoy the story, I think the narrator’s voice was a little monotone for me to really get into it fully. And the more I listened idk. I should’ve switched to just the ebook. So going forward in this series I’ll be doing that.

It’s a very cool concept of everything and I liked how everything built up! I’m excited to see how it’ll continue!

Good reader

She has a good voice for this type of story.

I suppose when the characters are supernatural the massive age gap isn’t as big of an ick but just once I’d like it to be the woman who is the older one.

Narrator was not that good.

The story was alright. I'm usually not too much into fantasy in books but this was actually pretty decent.

Love a well written vampire story

I can’t wait to read more by Karina. I love a good enemies to lovers story. Found family at the end is perfecto.

Needs a different person reading the book

Was difficult to keep listening because the person reading is totally wrong for the part. Her voice doesn't have the right emotions for her part. It's like she's just reading it and not feeling the story

Vampires

This was a delight I loved it so much. Vampires and spice, easy to follow, no crazy world building

Good world introduction

I really enjoyed Karina Halle’s take on a vampire world, focusing on vampires and witches and the conflict between them. I got to learn about everything along with Lenore, although I feel that I would have made better choices in her place. I thought the pacing of the story was good and enjoyed watching Lenore’s relationship with Solon grow and evolve. There were plenty of unanswered questions at the end of the book to be answered in the sequel, but there’s wasn’t a cliffhanger to make me curse the wait.