Thursday, August 16, 2012
Horrible Book Covers
Last night I finished a book I enjoyed, but HOLY CARP the cover is HORRIFIC.
Interestingly, I searched online for images, and none of the images I found had the sheer horrificness of fake blood that was on my cover.
My guess is that someone fixed the cover, for later printings. Which makes the current cover bad, but not quite as OMFG YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING horrible.
So, here it is:
Seriously. Click through the Flickr to see larger OMG AWFUL.
Just to prove I didn’t photoshop that horrible blood in there, here is my co-worker Meredith, reacting to the cover.
If you click through to Flickr, you can view full size and still see the horrific blood drips there.
FWIW, I then loaned the book to Meredith to read, because it really is a good book.
August 16th, 2012 at 10:24 am
Chicago orthodontist Kira Graceling should have just kept on working. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside the patient’s mouth as she worked to correct his overbite. Suddenly, she finds herself in a world she’s only imagined in her worst nightmares.
At the center is Mencheres, a mouth-breathing, drooling jerk who got hungry and stopped at a McDonalds drive-thru on his way to a friggin’ dental appointment and just couldn’t wait until later to grab a snack. Then Kira appears–this fearless, beautiful… DDS who braved his halitosis to rescue him. Though he has heartburn, keeping this appointment means risking drooling on her. Yet going to someone else isn’t covered by his dental plan and this is the only appointment he could schedule for months.
And with the oversalted french fries he scarfed down on his way to the doctor (and why on Earth didn’t he wait to eat until after his appointment?), Mencheres has ample cause to regret all the extra ketchup he squirted on the saliferous potatoes.
August 16th, 2012 at 11:18 am
Thanks, Eric, now I want french fries.
Without fake blood… err, I mean ketchup.
August 16th, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Where’s the like button here? I like Eric. No, actually, I want a *love* button.