Nov 24
Click for full imageYou know the two things that make everything look fantastic? Glow and blur. The best photoshop tools money can buy. So we’ll have a glowing blurry tattooed man with a wolves head! And some girl with some glowly blurry transparency around her. Make sure the title is huge and don’t forget to blur what you can.
(Rating: 5.57 out of 10)
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November 24th, 2009 at 4:43 am
Pretty sure this isn’t really that bad. Though the wolves head looks a bit.. naff.
Maybe I’m not quite awake. More coffee!
November 24th, 2009 at 5:53 am
At first I thought this wasn’t too bad but the more I look at it the more annoyed I get by all the swirly crap round the title and the transparent electrified people and the general ‘oo look at us we’re so cool and urban cos we have tattoos’ attitude.
Grrrr…
November 24th, 2009 at 6:14 am
I’m certtainly not going to argue that its a good cover. However, i’m of the opinion if your going to have a man made of fire on the cover with a huskies head, then it’s better blurry than in full focus.
I do however like the matte ink used on alot of newer british publications, instead of the glossy covers.
I agree the font is a bit over the top, kinda like in art classes at school when u had to make words look like their meaning… so they’ve made the word INK look all inky… nice
given the story seems to be about fae/spirits i think the ghostly blurry transparency may be justified.
Its certainly better than your average Baen book!
November 24th, 2009 at 8:55 am
CSA – “given the story seems to be about fae/spirits i think the ghostly blurry transparency may be justified”
You think? Even with the gold fiery squiggly bits?
Though I do agree there are much much worse covers in the world. I just find this one makes me unreasonably annoyed for no particular reason. Maybe I’m just having one of those days.
Is it just me or have we had a awful lot of covers with half-naked men recently? Not that this is always a bad thing.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Well i mean the gold fiery squiggly bits are obviously an abomination against God and man, but even an average David Weber cover is MORE of an abobination against God and man.
Yeah SI, Mi is right, more half-naked women please? (atleast thats how i’ve interpreted that)
November 24th, 2009 at 11:46 am
haha Alrighty then, more half naked women on the way!
This cover does annoy me for some reason. Maybe it’s just the same old, ‘wouldn’t really want to be seen with it’ thing. Though certainly isn’t the worst by any means.
November 24th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I think it’s the colour scheme that is the worst thing about this cover – the orange and red of wolf-head hunk combined with turquoise of the background conforms to no known colour scheme and is just unpleasant to look at.
Also wolf-head hunk seems to be caressing his own butt cheeks.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
The American cover is SO much better.
November 28th, 2009 at 5:08 am
Hooray! Welcome back, Ms Powers.
The American cover – do you mean better as in better, or better as in terrible sci-fi and fantasy book covers better?
December 19th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
It’s a metaphorical cover, people. Mainly a metaphor for “We didn’t have enough money to pay for a real cover.”