Upon deliberation, I am giving Sunshine a 1 because I don't think the .5 amount of entertainment I got out of it should cancel out how much I hated picking up this book after the first part. 
 McKinley has a knack for beautiful description and prose. Unfortunately, this book abuses it to the point where the meandering descriptions and introspection interfere with the actual story being told. There were many times in this story, I wished the narrator would just shut up and tell me what happened next. Too many. I also was unable to make a genuine connection with any character, even the ones I enjoyed such as Yolande, Pat or Con. There just wasn't any time amid Sunshine's endless rambling about her feelings, the bakery, her inner tree or whatever else she was on about at the time. Also, I severely disliked Sunshine. I think the style of narration would have been much more palatable to me if I hadn't hated the narrator. There was really nothing for me to like about her, even if she had agency. She was just a mess. 
 I was told the first and final thirds of this book were good. I agree because they are where plot is occurring, but the middle stretch is simply tortuous. Not to mention, forcing me to read through all that techno-magical stuff that doesn't even matter in the end! What was the point of it? And I really don't care whether there's a sequel because I never want to spend any time with Sunshine again. I liked the approach to magic and wish more attention could have been spent on that and the Others than the bakery. I also liked how the Others were portrayed, particularly Con, as something inhuman and not creatures you would lust after, for the most part. It is a very interesting take on vampires. But those enjoyments were hampered by Sunshine's random power discoveries ever 20 pages, characters that were never actually developed, back stories that were not explored and so many instances of random narration interrupting the action. Also, no much of the action was almost indecipherable due to the unreliable narrator. I hate Nowheresville, chaos-world and whatever else was thrown in there. I never knew what was going on half the time, and I felt like the narrator expected me to since so little is actually explained. Tell vs. show is at its worst here, and it destroys any of the potential or momentum of the plot. 
 I did not like this book.