Books like “Sunshine”

What to read after “Sunshine” by Robin McKinley: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
Half vampire Cat has spent years hunting the creatures her father belonged to. When she meets Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, he offers to train her in exchange for help with his own list of targets, and the partnership draws her into a world she cannot leave.
2
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent · 2022
From the same world: “Vampires”
Oraya is a human adopted by the vampire king and has always been an outsider at his court. To win protection she enters the Kejari, a tournament that kills most of its competitors, and forms an uneasy alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she cannot trust and should not love.
3
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- Urban Fantasy
Diana Bishop, a historian and reluctant witch, calls up an enchanted manuscript that every creature in Oxford wants. When the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont offers his help, their alliance defies the laws that keep witches, vampires, and daemons apart.
4
Guilty Pleasures
Laurell K. Hamilton · 1993
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- Urban Fantasy
Anita Blake raises the dead for a living and executes vampires for the state. When a frightened vampire hires her to find who is murdering the city's undead, her search pulls her into the hardboiled politics of Jean-Claude and the master vampire of St. Louis.
5
Dark Lover
J. R. Ward · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Morally Grey Character
Wrath, the vampire king of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, never planned to care for a mortal. When he promises a dying comrade to watch over the man's half-human daughter, Beth, their growing bond pulls them both into the Brotherhood's hidden war with the slayers hunting their kind.
6
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black · 2013
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
After a party ends in a vampire massacre, seventeen-year-old Tana wakes surrounded by bodies and finds her infected ex-boyfriend and a strange vampire boy still alive. She takes them both to Coldtown, a walled city where vampires and humans live under quarantine, and has to decide where she belongs.
7
Kiss of Midnight
Lara Adrian · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Morally Grey Character
Gabrielle hides in Boston, painting by day and avoiding the vampires who killed her family. When she witnesses a battle between the Breed warrior Lucan and his enemies, she is pulled into the Midnight Breed's hidden war and a dangerous attraction to an assassin sworn to hunt his own kind.
8
Magic Bites
Ilona Andrews · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- Urban Fantasy
In a future Atlanta where magic and technology take turns ruling the streets, mercenary Kate Daniels cleans up supernatural problems for hire. When her guardian is murdered, she is drawn into a war between necromancers and a shapeshifter clan to find the killer.
9
Dragon Bound
Thea Harrison · 2011
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Forced Proximity
Pia steals an ancient coin and becomes the target of Dragos, the most powerful dragon alive. When he catches her, he recognises her at once as something rare and precious: his mate. Pia carries secrets of her own, and powerful enemies who would gladly see them both dead.
10
Certain Dark Things
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2016
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- Urban Fantasy
In a Mexico City policed against vampires, street kid Domingo meets Atl, a descendant of Aztec blood drinkers running from a rival clan. He is drawn to her despite the danger, and together they try to leave the city before the vampires hunting her catch up.
11
A Hunger Like No Other
Kresley Cole · 2006
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Forced Proximity
Half-vampire Emmaline travels to Paris to learn how her parents died and is abducted by Lachlain, a werewolf king freed from a century of torture. He is sure she is his mate, but she wants nothing to do with the werewolves' war, even as the bond between them grows.
12
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
Bella Swan moves to the rainy town of Forks and is drawn to Edward Cullen, who is beautiful, distant and not human. As she learns he is a mind-reading vampire, the danger of loving him becomes impossible to ignore.