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Click for full imageJen Comments: All I can say is, anyone who actually bought this for the cover is going to be VERY disappointed.
Published 2010
(Average: 4.27 out of 10)
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Jen Comments: All I can say is, anyone who actually bought this for the cover is going to be VERY disappointed.
Published 2010
(Average: 4.27 out of 10)Loading...
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May 30th, 2011 at 9:59 am
Anyone who actually bought this for the cover needs to get a life.
May 30th, 2011 at 10:30 am
hahaha this is the best cover iv seen. If they turn this into a movie i will definitley buy it
May 30th, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Snakes! Why’d it have to be snakes?!
May 30th, 2011 at 6:21 pm
“Lisbeth Salander is the Anita Blake of crime fiction!”
“Alyx is the Lisbeth Salander of feminist SF!”
“Blargle Blah is the Yadda Yadda of Urban Fantasy!”
May 30th, 2011 at 6:45 pm
You mean it doesn’t involve bondage with snakes? Ah bah.
May 30th, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Even with the aid of Black Magic Mandy’s attempts at the Spock Eyebrow were laughable.
May 30th, 2011 at 7:56 pm
For a moment I thought I’d gone to one of my other bookmarks *cough*cough* ahem.
May 31st, 2011 at 12:51 am
Looks more like a colorized version of some tabloid cover — “Kidnapped by Satan-Worshiping Snakes!”
May 31st, 2011 at 4:15 am
“Unplug the phone”? Which century was this written in? I guess “put you phone on vibrate” might night sounds so cozy.
May 31st, 2011 at 9:03 am
Now, don’t let this cover make you think that big publishers might harbor contempt for their own customer base.
I rigidly, fanatically deny any accusations that publishers intentionally design covers like these from the conviction that we, the readers, are slobbering gimps. Not so!
May 31st, 2011 at 11:39 pm
If I were in the business of blurbing books, this format would seem like a safe way to go:
“A.R. Yngve is the Eddie Izzard of GoodShowSir commenters.”
What does that mean? You don’t have any idea, but you have to admit, it sounds impressive!
June 1st, 2011 at 10:34 am
Thank you, Tom! And I think Eddie Izzard is really funny.
June 1st, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Especially when he is covered in snakes.
June 4th, 2011 at 4:33 am
I like the girl’s expression. She’s like, “Oops.”
June 20th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
It’s okay to look indifferent while being sacrificed by a satanic cult.
June 24th, 2011 at 3:14 pm
It looks like the snake is saying something in her ear: “Hello Clarisssse…..Can you hear the lambssssss? Or this doll when it ssssays mama?”
January 4th, 2012 at 2:28 pm
I like it
April 27th, 2013 at 10:29 pm
‘You don’t like my ssssalsssa?’
*nervously* ‘Nnnooo…’
‘Here, try just a drop on the dolly’sss sssskirt.’
*crying* ‘OMIGAAA-HAAAWD! THIS IS THE WORST BIRTHDAY CAKE EVER!’
April 28th, 2013 at 2:23 pm
Wot? No “Embossing” tag?
April 28th, 2013 at 3:14 pm
We need two new tags for this cover: Embossing… and Embarrassing.
April 29th, 2013 at 5:40 pm
Aren’t *all* the covers here embarassing?
April 29th, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Embossed! Thank you both.
September 27th, 2013 at 2:05 pm
The expression on the girl’s face says “Well, what a sexy situation I have gotten myself into here!”
Lady, there ain’t nothing sexy about being crushed by a boa constrictor.
September 27th, 2013 at 5:03 pm
The snake has somehow got THROUGH the fallen-down bra-strap.
(@Tom Noir: her expression looks to me more ‘Look, my student loan’s almost due: it was pose for this cover or write the contents.’)
September 29th, 2013 at 10:58 am
UNSYMPATHETIC ARTIST
November 29th, 2016 at 12:15 pm
“Oh hi Mr and Mrs Jones, you’re back early. Now before you say anything, the twins have been fed, bathed and are asleep upstairs, and this is totally not what it looks like..”
January 11th, 2017 at 12:25 am
@Tom Noir (11): I’d think “He’s funny and looks good in a dress?”
September 1st, 2018 at 3:39 pm
I think this cover is just glorious. I love the expression–having skimmed the Goodreads reviews, i reckon she’s saying something along the lines of “Blow this for a game of soldiers, I’ve had it up to here with all this weird shit”. Looking at the summaries of the books in the series (there are 7), she has reason to be pissed off.
I’d just about buy it for the cover (but no way would I read it on the train).
February 28th, 2020 at 7:43 am
Remember when you could unplug a phone and not be a social outcast?
February 28th, 2020 at 8:22 am
“Did I summon you at a bad time?”
February 28th, 2020 at 1:18 pm
A life size replica of Stonehenge made with candles. The world needs this.
February 28th, 2020 at 2:08 pm
I’m actually impressed by the perspective matching of the embossed logo and underlying artwork. It makes me feel like I can reach into the cover and rescue that snake from embarrassing exploitation.
February 28th, 2020 at 4:12 pm
Willow has some serious explaining to do to Buffy this time around.
February 28th, 2020 at 8:59 pm
What, no Harvey Weinstein jokes yet?
February 28th, 2020 at 11:26 pm
Her hair’s pointing one way, her eyes and the bridge of her nose a different direction and her nostrils, mouth and chin a third. What a crazy, mixed-up kid.
February 29th, 2020 at 1:31 am
@Tat W—don’t forget the clashing eyebrows. This cover is a classic example of the work that has come out of the legendary UAI “Faces are Easy to Draw” seminar.
February 29th, 2020 at 1:46 am
The title font is bad. Hard to read. I’m not sure the embossing would help with that IRL.
I know the author very very slightly, and suspect her opinion of this matches ours. She probably made the same face as the heroine when seeing it. Only, y’know, with her facial features in correct position.
@Tor: Harvey didn’t go in for props and snakes, I hear.
@fred: In some Burning Man-type extravaganza?
February 29th, 2020 at 3:26 pm
Oh, so that’s why the discount store was all out of black candles.
March 1st, 2020 at 12:12 pm
FYI
Esther Diamond is the Stephanie Plum of urban fantasy
Laura Stone is the Rosalind Peach of suburban fantasy
Davina Flint is the Johanna Apple of rural fantasy
Jessica Jade is the Julia Kumquat of village fantasy
Gillian Gold is the Diana Durian of pueblo fantasy
Sarah Silicate Perovskite is the Mariah Monkey Jackfruit of anarcho-syndicalist commune fantasy
March 2nd, 2020 at 2:43 am
‘Snakes on an Astral Plane’?
March 2nd, 2020 at 6:31 am
@JP: GSS!
@Francis: I want to read that last series.