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Well thank God!
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Lf7DmvWZL._SS500_.jpg
Finally, a cover that doesn't look like porn. Too bad about the contents -- I think they cannot be salvaged.
But I can't help but wonder if the publishers are tightening the reins a little, wanting it to look more crimey and less like naked women's tinted body parts. Given LKH's deserved reputation, I wonder if they are trying to rope in a different audience than teenagers and embittered divorcees, or just maintain their dignity.
(Although I gotta say, I would HATE that cover on any normal book -- so grimy)
Finally, a cover that doesn't look like porn. Too bad about the contents -- I think they cannot be salvaged.
But I can't help but wonder if the publishers are tightening the reins a little, wanting it to look more crimey and less like naked women's tinted body parts. Given LKH's deserved reputation, I wonder if they are trying to rope in a different audience than teenagers and embittered divorcees, or just maintain their dignity.
(Although I gotta say, I would HATE that cover on any normal book -- so grimy)
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And what the fuck do the scissors have to do with Anita Blake, or this book in particular? If I had lived in a cave my entire life and had no idea who LKH was or what the series was about, this cover would tell me absolutely nothing.
Oh...I get it now. They did that on purpose so people who hadn't heard of it wouldn't know what it was really about and might think it actually, you know, had a plot.
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