ext_15324 ([identity profile] cherith.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] lkh_lashouts2008-01-21 11:21 am

Blood Noir

Have you seen the cover Amazon has up for AB:VH book 16? This thing totally caught me by surprise as I was browsing recommendations over at Amazon. I had to click just to make sure it wasn't some other "Blood Noir" novel.

at Amazon.

I would totally buy this book if I'd never heard of LKH. It's sort of a Saw type cover, or J-Horror movie cover, not something I'm used to seeing in reference to any LKH novel. I definitely won't miss the weird angled shots of naked women and the occassional man. What do you think?
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[personal profile] pith 2008-01-21 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It has been brought up before, but... yeah. It looks like the cover to a British crime mystery or something. Maybe that is the British cover and Amazon US is only using it as a placeholder? Hard to say. It could be an attempt to try to legitimize her, though—or at least stop people from taking the dust jacket off before they read it on the train.

After all, if people can't see the dust jacket, how are they supposed to know it's an LKH book?

[identity profile] voguexcouture.livejournal.com 2008-01-21 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I emailed Darla and she said that this was the cover and that they (meaning Laurell, Jon, and herself or so I'm assuming) liked it.

[identity profile] easol.livejournal.com 2008-01-22 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
*quizzical look*

Nhuh? So, they actually LIKED a totally nonsexual cover? Are we sure Jonboi didn't design it?

[identity profile] voguexcouture.livejournal.com 2008-01-22 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
Hehe. No idea. She didn't give me details. Probably because I told her I didn't like it straight off and then asked her opinion.

I've probably insulted Laurell and Darla is now going to stop answering my emails any day here hehe.

It's not that I want a sexual cover, to me, that cover has SAW written all over it. *shrugs* Nothing in her books relates to it. Not anymore. I hate that I'm now having to give up on Laurell. I still would like to believe there is some hope over the rainbow, but yeah. *shrugs*