Is there no end to the urban fantasy covers with dominated by the sexy heroine and her bare midriff?
At least this one has a visible head and doesn't have tribal tattoos. Got tired of those looking over one shoulder/weapon in hand/tats covers.
Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoe: I can hurt you.
'Shindig'
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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - Apr 03, 2012 12:49:29 pm PDT #18330 of 28289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS - Apr 03, 2012 12:49:51 pm PDT #18331 of 28289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh.
Headedness xpost.
Connie Neil - Apr 03, 2012 12:50:54 pm PDT #18332 of 28289
brillig
I guess all book designers are of the "women won't buy books unless they can imagine themselves as the heroine" school.
edit: or maybe if they don't show her face they don't have to pay the model.
§ ita § - Apr 03, 2012 12:57:48 pm PDT #18333 of 28289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm assuming that she's a deep undercover FBI agent, with that getup.
meara - Apr 03, 2012 12:58:12 pm PDT #18334 of 28289
Plus, although it may be coming back, midriff tops are really out of style (compared to, say, the mid-90s when you could barely buy a shirt that covered your bellybutton). And most of these are supposed to be set around now-ish (either an alternate one with monsters, or a "real" one where no one but the heroine and her people KNOW about the monsters...). Hmph.
Ginger - Apr 03, 2012 1:52:23 pm PDT #18335 of 28289
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Apparently monsters keep midriff tops in style.
Steph L. - Apr 03, 2012 2:49:51 pm PDT #18336 of 28289
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I guess all book designers are of the "women won't buy books unless they can imagine themselves as the heroine" school.
Man, I read Discount Armaggedon and then I got my hair cut, and I still look NOTHING LIKE VERITY PRICE. Also can't dance.
Phooey.
Polter-Cow - Apr 03, 2012 3:02:21 pm PDT #18337 of 28289
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hee!!
Did you like it?
Steph L. - Apr 03, 2012 3:05:10 pm PDT #18338 of 28289
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Holy shit, I *really* did. (Okay, I may have thought the last big fight scene, with the music choreography, was a little cheesy. Or, rather, the choreography was a little cheesy. But I get it. She's a ballroom dancer. It's cool.)
But I really, really liked it. I want to know EVERYTHING about her family.
Polter-Cow - Apr 03, 2012 3:15:40 pm PDT #18339 of 28289
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Okay, I may have thought the last big fight scene...was a little cheesy.
Ha, it totally was, but I agree that it's cool. Mostly I was just wanting to see that scene in the television show (come on, it's just begging to be a television show).
(Also I want to see the TV show because Seanan wants Alona Tal for Sarah.)
But I really, really liked it.
That's great to hear! I really liked it, but I felt like there was something missing, although I couldn't put my finger on it. And of course I found the romance aspect mostly eye-rolly (it works a bit better for me in the Toby books).
I want to know EVERYTHING about her family.
Great, because Seanan wants to tell you! She has the series mapped out (not in specifics, obvs) to, like, books nine and ten, I think, which are about Verity's grandmother's adventures in the underworld, based on the titles (she plans to switch POV characters every two books).