Jan 08
Click for full imageGood Show Sir’s Art Direction: No no no… I said more glow! And more Ting! And more of the horse looking like he’s awkwardly floating over a field!
Published 2011
(Average: 6.65 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: No no no… I said more glow! And more Ting! And more of the horse looking like he’s awkwardly floating over a field!
Published 2011
(Average: 6.65 out of 10)Loading...
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January 8th, 2013 at 10:35 am
Like a streak of lightning flashing cross the sky! Like the swiftest arrow whizzing from a bow! Like a mighty cannon ball he seems fly – oh, no, sorry, wrong horse.
January 8th, 2013 at 10:38 am
Sorry, I thought “Destiny’s Star” was an installment of one of those VC Andrews “Flowers in the Attic” series….
January 8th, 2013 at 10:40 am
And I’m distracted by the author’s name font. It wants to go left, it wants to hang right, swirls around in the middle but still show off the full moon…
January 8th, 2013 at 10:41 am
And more bicep! Is that a bicep? Is there such a thing as a singular bicep?
Maybe it’s his hair. Or his jacket. Probably his jacket. Jacket/eyepatch/cowl thing.
I prefer the bicep explanation, myself.
January 8th, 2013 at 12:01 pm
Hm, talking about bicepedes. The person (he/she/it?) on the horse somehow reminds me of this:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/09/the-mote-in-gods-eye/
January 8th, 2013 at 12:31 pm
‘I like to braid my hair into broad, spatulate wedges that can then double as shoulder-guards. I’m surprised more warriors don’t do the same.’
January 8th, 2013 at 12:58 pm
I’ve changed my mind.
It’s some sort of fungal growth, clearly. Slowly consuming our hero from his upper-left quadrant down. The book is the tale of his race against time to fulfil his destiny before it covers his entire body.
I love it when book covers accurately illustrate scenes from the story.
January 8th, 2013 at 1:25 pm
“My horse is larger than all the other horses!”
Incidentally, I think the rider is female. I wouldn’t bet money on it, but that’s my first impression.
January 8th, 2013 at 2:44 pm
Matilda and Ebony pose dramatically against a misty field…inhabited by indistinct white horses, standing around and doing horsey things. I blame the art director for this one.
January 8th, 2013 at 3:34 pm
Are those tents in the left background? Mushrooms? Icebergs? Too much mood mist to tell.
January 8th, 2013 at 10:55 pm
It appears the author’s last name has an L that she presently isn’t using.
January 9th, 2013 at 9:37 am
Fred, if you click on the full image and zoom in, they’re definitely horses in the background, though the grey one bottom left of the picture could be a giant goat..
Tom Noir, with you on this. The leg and arm of the rider are more “stock fantasy young hero woman”, than “stock fantasy hero dude”. Also something about the face and hair seems feminine to me.
Hey what if the horse is named “Star” and the rider “Destiny” – suddenly the cover all makes sense! wait, no it doesn’t. What if the HORSE is named destiny and the rider Star? Naa, that’s just a little creepy.
January 9th, 2013 at 3:42 pm
Is it just me or is the horse’s head encased in ice?
January 9th, 2013 at 9:38 pm
A good rule of thumb for review quotes:
If the words, “the”, “a”, and “an” are missing from the quote, it’s probably because the full quote was not that good…
January 10th, 2013 at 6:53 pm
Argh. One of ours. We throw ourselves upon the mercy of the court…
January 10th, 2013 at 6:54 pm
Society is to blame.
January 10th, 2013 at 10:14 pm
@Simon: I would like the three out by the rubbish bin taken into consideration. 😉
January 11th, 2013 at 12:53 am
@DaveM. Well, it’s apparently all about a girl and her horse, and it’s been favourably reviewed by something called “Romantic Times”. So yes, possibly *quite* creepy.
January 12th, 2013 at 1:37 am
@Simon. Bravo sir. The old fashioned courage to stand up and admit to the deed, coupled with the modern sensibility permitting to be placed on a faceless and impersonal entity. I see an alternative career in politics as a distinct possibility for you, my fine sir…
January 12th, 2013 at 4:13 am
A disturbing percentage of that horse appears to have been crafted from solid Ting!.
January 14th, 2013 at 6:01 pm
Why…? The hind hooves… and tail… in some kind of altered gravity field…?
February 14th, 2013 at 9:48 pm
There is something wrong with that horses head.
Dear Romantic Times, if you wanted to sell this book change the quote to “amazing sexual prowess!”
February 20th, 2013 at 12:38 am
So that’s what boredom looks like….