Take what you know about "urban fantasy" and throw it out the nearest window. Rae Seddon, nicknamed Sunshine, lives in a world that has always known magic, vampires, weres, and demons. Sunshine sucks you in with a detailed narrative that is almost stream of consciousness. Rae introduces us to the family coffee shop, its employees, and patrons in fun but very realistic detail. She's just an ordinary baker wishing she didn't have to get up at 4am...until she's taken by the darkest of Others, vampires. These are not hot sexy vampires, they are terrifying, and no one escapes them. They chain her up as bait for their other captive, a vampire named Con. He's formal and polite for a being with skin like dead mushrooms and a voice that scrapes on your nerves. Sooner or later though he'll get to the point where he can't resist attacking her, it's what he is. A hopeless situation, if Rae Seddon were nothing but an ordinary coffee house baker. 

I think I just like being in Sunshine's head, it feels like home to me. It's the way she sees the world with plenty of irony and hilarious comments (imagine being a were-chicken) on small things. Although funny, there is an amazing realism to the characters. She's a victim struggling to come to terms with how this changed her life, including the gift that let her survive. Not only does she not want to be a victim, she doesn't want to be special. She just wants her life back the way it was. To get that life back she has to confront the Big Bad and she's afraid. She doesn't understand Con, its not like anyone can help her since no one survives meeting a vampire, but she needs him as much as he needs her.

As Neil Gaiman said, "Its pretty much perfect." The only complaint I've ever heard about Sunshine is that there was never a sequel. It's so good I think a sequel would be a disappointment at best and probably just muck things up.

Reviews on Audible.com hated the narration by Laural Merlington although even there it still gets 4 stars.