I love vampire stories and I especially love when there is a human involved and the involvement with any "other" creature seems insane. My sister had read it and seemed to enjoy enough of the story that I was intrigued. 
 McKinley is very new to me and while McKinley appears to be a good writer there were times when she seems to go off into a more fanciful version of the story she's telling and each time she lost me. Her descriptions of the lore behind this story was confusing and at time boring. I don't know if I would read anything by her again unless I knew it was going to be a lot better. 
 Are heroine is Sunshine, a baker in her step-father's bakery. She is good at her job and her culinary creations are stuff of legend. Sunshine decides to take a little break from her family and go out to their old cabin that is close to where the "Other Wars" took place. (The others are vamps, demons, witches, warlocks and any other mystical thing you can think of. ) From there she is kidnapped by vampires and taken to a mansion like house where she is shackled to a wall in the ballroom. Across the room is another vampire, also shackled to the wall. She is being left as a meal for him. 
 Sunshine, manages to keep her wits about her and discovers that she is more magical than she thought. Sunshine appears to be a strong character only she loses it at the drop of a hat though it does appear she has reason in those instances. I like her at times and then other times I get so sick of her and her irrational belief that she's somehow dark and now evil that I want to scream. 
 Con or Constantine is our hero/vampire which is now allied with Sunshine and connected to her in someway. You get the impression that Con isn't the typical vampire. It would seem he's more human in his beliefs than you would suspect and despite Sunshine's observations that he's far from human. He seems to truly care about Sunshine and you get the impression that by the end there is more between them than just this connection that was forged from her abilities and sunshine. 
 Con is by far the most interesting character of the book and one I would love to read more about. 
 There are some other characters than pop up. Yolande, who is really intriguing but only important for a very short times; Charlie, who is more of a superficial character; Mel, who is interesting but by no means a deep character; and Pat, who is more than boring most of the time. 
 If this book was based mostly on Sunshine's encounter with the vampires and Con, the reaction of getting free, the building relationship between them and then the fight against Bo (our really evil vamp) then the story would be great. However, McKinley, drags us into a world of government and other lore for this story that seems pointless and at times not worth the time and effort of reading. 
 This is a book I would recommend you skip altogether, but if you are a McKinley fan you might just enjoy it far more than I.