Sep 17
Art Direction: Kinda like those raunchy romance book covers with real people. Expect with a magical dragon and a hunky wizard waving around his magical staff. Who wouldn’t want to sleep with a guy who dresses like a wizard? Actually… good point… make sure to hire a model.
Published 2003
September 17th, 2010 at 9:00 am
‘Ward, ruler of Hurog, couldn’t shake his annoyance that his world was named after the sound people make when they throw up …’
September 17th, 2010 at 9:08 am
Well, that makes it a lot easier for me to come up with a fantasy book title — I’ll just hang around the local waterhole on a late Friday Night and record the noises:
“HURGLL-KOFF!”
“Great name there! Thank you sir!”
“KAK-BLURRGH!”
“Kinda exotic, but I can use it…”
“PISS OFF!!”
“Pisof? Pizov? I don’t know…”
September 17th, 2010 at 9:10 am
He’s got dragon blood in his veins? That’s one hell of a sex scene that probably took place in the first book… one I never ever want to visualise.
September 17th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
@SI: I’m sure that with a little internet searching I could find you images of such a scene. Rule 34 after all.
In that context the dragon sticking its tongue out in the background takes on a whole different meaning. At first I thought it was a bratty little kid dragon being cheeky, but now I think it might be a sensual lady dragon making the moves on our hunky hero!
September 17th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Dude looks like Aragorn fighting off the Nazgul in the Fellowship of the Ring movie.
September 17th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
The glow is good and I really like the Viggo Mortensen knock-off, but they could have thrown in a little lens-flare for good measure.
September 17th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
“Men! Now YOU can get your old hair back — with Dragonblood Hair Transplants!”
September 17th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Is… is that Christian Slater?
September 18th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
I thought it was Seth Godin in a wig…
September 30th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
“Who wouldn’t want to sleep with a guy who dresses like a wizard?”
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
Good to see the old chestnut of horizontally mirroring the picture and sticking in on the back cover, a bit bigger.
March 19th, 2012 at 12:27 am
“Patricia Briggs always enchants her readers.” That’s what the mysterious eldritch diagram on page thirteen does.
March 19th, 2012 at 7:12 am
“Patricia Briggs always enchants her readers†sounds much funnier if you read it in a whiny complaining voice.
““Patricia Briggs ALways enCHANTS her readers.”
October 23rd, 2015 at 12:49 am
“Crikey, this hairdryer’s a bit fierce.”
January 16th, 2017 at 4:43 am
I don’t care if it’s a staff and not a sword, it still should have had a Ting!