{"id":11153,"date":"2013-12-22T08:59:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T13:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=11153"},"modified":"2021-01-28T15:17:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T20:17:54","slug":"the-books-of-2013-covers-i-hated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11153","title":{"rendered":"The Books of 2013: Covers I Hated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for my wrap up of the books I read in 2013, and once again I&#8217;m going to start with covers.<\/p>\n<p>And the first covers are ones I hated, to get that out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>There are two types of terrible covers: ones that are just plain awful, and ones that are good, but I personally disliked.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll start with the former. Neither of these covers are terrible, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TwiceTempted.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TwiceTempted.jpg?resize=247%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"TwiceTempted\" width=\"247\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TwiceTempted.jpg?resize=247%2C400&amp;ssl=1 247w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TwiceTempted.jpg?w=494&amp;ssl=1 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062076108\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0062076108&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=randomreading-20\"><br \/>\nTwice Tempted: A Night Prince Novel<\/a><\/em> (2013) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/frost_jeanine.php\">Jeaniene Frost<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeaniene Frost has had some <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/9647\">absolutely horrific covers<\/a>, and this in no way stoops to that level. But that doesn&#8217;t mean I like it. Which is too bad, because despite the boinking, it&#8217;s a good book and one I enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>First, it&#8217;s the male equivalent of the butt-n-boobs shot, although this is at least anatomically possible.  <\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not really what bothered me. What I dislike is that the model doesn&#8217;t match Vlad. (Yes, Vlad the Impaler, but it&#8217;s a good book. Trust me.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Winged eyebrows framed eyes that were a blend of copper and emerald, and sleek material draped over a body hardened from decades of battle when he was human. As usual, only his hands and face were bare.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nUnlike most well-built men, Vlad didn\u2019t flash a lot of skin, but those custom-tailored clothes flaunted his taut body as effectively as running shorts and a sleeveless muscle shirt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vlad is described as always being impeccably dressed, so we get&#8230; man titty.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, a cover that isn&#8217;t horrible, but I just did not like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fair_game.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fair_game.jpg?resize=264%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"fair_game\" width=\"264\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fair_game.jpg?resize=264%2C400&amp;ssl=1 264w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fair_game.jpg?w=669&amp;ssl=1 669w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0425256189\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0425256189&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=randomreading-20\">Fair Game<\/a><\/em> (2012) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/briggsp.php\">Patricia Briggs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That just doesn&#8217;t look like a wolf to me. And it certainly doesn&#8217;t look like the bad-ass enforcer wolf. The position of the two characters is just &#8230; weird. And I keep thinking that&#8217;s a Pringle floating in front of them.<\/p>\n<p>Now, two covers that are just terrible.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/HardSpell.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/HardSpell.jpg?resize=263%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"HardSpell\" width=\"263\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/HardSpell.jpg?resize=263%2C400&amp;ssl=1 263w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/HardSpell.jpg?resize=675%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 675w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/HardSpell.jpg?w=737&amp;ssl=1 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Evil-Dark.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Evil-Dark.jpg?resize=263%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Evil-Dark\" width=\"263\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Evil-Dark.jpg?resize=263%2C400&amp;ssl=1 263w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Evil-Dark.jpg?resize=675%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 675w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Evil-Dark.jpg?w=737&amp;ssl=1 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I liked and enjoyed these stories, but thank goodness I read them in eBook format, so I didn&#8217;t have to actually LOOK at either of these covers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for my wrap up of the books I read in 2013, and once again I&#8217;m going to start with covers. And the first covers are ones I hated, to get that out of the way. There are two types of terrible covers: ones that are just plain awful, and ones that are good, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1093,2,1092,1090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-covers","category-books-reading","category-covers","category-years-favorites"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2TT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}