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Click for full imageJessie Comments: This cover is so atrocious that every time I go to read it, I just can’t. It’s definitely among the top three worst covers I’ve ever seen.
Published 1995
That’s is epic. Simply epic! Thanks to Jessie!
(Rating: 9.08 out of 10)
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May 21st, 2010 at 9:22 am
Shadow’s niece just won a piece of her soul at the expense of mine with that book cover.
May 21st, 2010 at 9:30 am
Ooh goody – a return to the world of Shadow, the elvan thief. I wonder if there’ll be dwerves and giblins too.
May 21st, 2010 at 9:35 am
I kind of like the cat-man-taur, even if the lighting is coming from about three directions. On Anne Logsto’s website she claims
“I started to write fiction as soon as I could put intelligible words on paper.”
I haven’t read the book but if the art is anything to go by…. well!
Doesn’t really look like a woman trapped in childhood though.
May 21st, 2010 at 11:06 am
Haha I actually love this cover. Hands down this is simply outstanding.
The art isn’t terrible but what greets your eyes is awesome. The man-cat-centaur’s head kinda looks like it has been photoshopped on there. Like they drew a cetaur and someone had to fix it, with a cats head.
Maybe he’s been for a flee treatment, hence the shaved chest.
May 21st, 2010 at 11:19 am
Brilliant. Never has a Cat-man-polarbear been so well drawn.
The “Elvan” girl looks like she has come straight from Larping.
May 21st, 2010 at 11:48 am
I can haz Nair kit and nife!?
oh and “YIF IN HELL!”
May 21st, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Cat-centaurs? CAT-CENTAURS? I thought Steven Brust invented those in his Taltos novels… as a semi-joke…
I mean, horse-centaurs have some practical application, because horses are tireless runners and can potentially give a bipedal friend a ride. But CATS? You want to take a snarling, scratching, furniture-ruining monster from hell and give it TWO MORE LIMBS?
May 21st, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Agrajag – Ah, but if you’d read the book you’d know that the artist was very subtly showing the light of the three sons that shine over this planet!
May 21st, 2010 at 3:31 pm
“My lower body and lynx head want to roll around in the catnip, yet my manly torso wants to hack it down! “
May 21st, 2010 at 4:05 pm
To some women… this would be the perfect man.
May 21st, 2010 at 4:57 pm
“To some women… this would be the perfect man.”
I feel like asking.. no, I’ve decided I don’t want to go there.
What are those things on D and P? Torches?
And that late 80′s/early 90′s style sweatband just tops it off.
May 21st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Centaurs have human heads of course. Do you think they were worried that if they carried that through with this bizarre Cataur people would just think it was a rubbish centaur so they gave it a cat’s head as well?
I want to see a book with a hippotaur on the front.
May 21st, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Let’s think this through for a moment. That’s a cat’s body, and a cat’s head. In between the body and the head – where usually would be a NECK – is the torso of a man.
This isn’t so much a centaur as a cat with a man-torso-neck. Weird.
In any case, he must be related to the I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC centaur with mini-me forearms.
May 21st, 2010 at 8:42 pm
The cat head is in proportion to the man torso, which makes it too small for the cat body.
May 22nd, 2010 at 2:05 pm
The cat head is in proportion to the man torso, which makes it too small for the cat body.
Dude. It’s a cat’s head on a human body (on a Puma’s body too). I don’t think proportions even come into play here.
May 22nd, 2010 at 3:44 pm
I still think there’s been some polar bear ancestory there. The front paws are definately bear.
May 23rd, 2010 at 9:40 pm
For a 7-feet-tall, four-legged humanoid I don’t think a huge unbalanced poleaxe is a safe weapon.
Imagine him hitting his own back with the pole every time…
Also, the title is more derivative than anything the Fantasy Title Generator can come up with:
http://www.fantasyliterature.com/zztitlegenerator.html
“Dagger’s Point?” Yes, a dagger has a point… and this is profound because…?
(Sequels: Dagger’s Handle, Dagger’s Hilt, Dagger’s Cut, Dagger’s All Mucked Up With Orc Blood…)
May 26th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Though I have to say that I do find the concept of a cat-centaur is kinda cool…though…why is he dipped in bronzer?
June 17th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Teal and orange — not just for movies! http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html
July 21st, 2010 at 1:45 am
I loved these books as a teen. The cover is a little strange, but it does depict characters from the books (though I recall the cat-man having two sets of arms, but maybe I’m not remembering it properly).
December 4th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
They are so cute in the pet shop window, but now we must quest for the one who can empty the litter tray?