Blood Noir

[cherith.livejournal.com]

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?

Comments

[pith]

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?

[cherith.livejournal.com]

You know, I really didn't picture this as a dust jacket type cover. I was totally picturing a trade or mass market paperback with this cover. Trying to visualize this as a hardback makes my head hurt.

[voguexcouture.livejournal.com]

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.

[easol.livejournal.com]

*quizzical look*

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

[voguexcouture.livejournal.com]

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*