Week 39 Review: Black Sunshine

From Goodreads:

All Lenore Warwick wants for her 21st birthday is to hang out with her friends, finish her second year at Berkeley with flying colors, and maybe catch the eye of a hot musician playing a show at a club that she can now (legally) get into.

Unfortunately, fate has other plans for her.

A week before her 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 twenty-one, 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.

If they don't kill her first.

Black Sunshine is a dark adult standalone romance with a paranormal twist, about sex, love, secrets, and revenge, set in contemporary San Francisco.

My Review:
This was a really enjoyable read! I loved this world of vampires and witches, of Lenore and Solon! It was dark and bloodthirsty and romantic, and I had such a great time reading it! I loved watching Lenore learn about this world, watching them fall in love!

We start right off with Lenore's adoptive parents, as they kill her mom, and her mom's mate (because her bio father was an evil scumbag) so we know a bit about magic and vampires-and Lenore doesn't. Until it's coming up on her birthday, and all these things are happening.

Lenore really doesn't know anything about this world, and Solon is the one that introduces it to her. Not always an easy experience, and there are some really big stumbling blocks, but I loved watching them get to know each other, start to fall in love while dealing with all these things like blood and lust! 

That ending, along with what was introduced about both of their fathers, has been really interested in the sequel, of how they're going to deal with things! Since both of their fathers are bad guys, and the pain aren't. So excited to continue on! 

This was a great read and I can't wait to read more! 

Author: Karina Halle
Series: Dark Eyes #1
Read: September 28th, 2023
Source: Audible
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Book!
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: March 25th 2021

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars