{"id":12644,"date":"2015-12-28T21:22:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T02:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=12644"},"modified":"2021-01-28T15:17:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T20:17:34","slug":"the-books-of-2015-covers-i-hated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/12644","title":{"rendered":"The Books of 2015: Covers I Hated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only one this year! (There were lots of meh covers, but only one terrible cover.)<\/p>\n<p>It is, completely unexpectedly, for a <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11153\">Jeaniene<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/9647\">Frost<\/a> book. I have no idea what she did, but she totally doesn&#8217;t deserve some of the abysmal covers she gets.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/9647\">the worst cover she&#8217;s ever gotten<\/a>, but it&#8217;s still pretty terrible, since the man on the cover is totally and completely unrelated to the man (vampire) described in the book.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Bound-by-Flames.jpg?resize=247%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bound-by-Flames\" width=\"247\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Bound-by-Flames.jpg?resize=247%2C400&amp;ssl=1 247w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Bound-by-Flames.jpg?resize=768%2C1244&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Bound-by-Flames.jpg?resize=632%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 632w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Bound-by-Flames.jpg?w=1580&amp;ssl=1 1580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vlad didn\u2019t show off his seething masculinity by wearing fewer clothes. Instead, he wore more to taunt people with what he didn\u2019t allow them to feast their eyes on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s as if the person doing the cover purposefully and willfully refuses to depict that man described between the pages.<\/p>\n<p>But I suppose I should expect nothing better from <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11990\">Avon<\/a>&#8211;who seems to want to have The Worst Covers Ever.<\/p>\n<p>But I have to admit, that only a single terrible cover this year isn&#8217;t doing too badly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only one this year! (There were lots of meh covers, but only one terrible cover.) It is, completely unexpectedly, for a Jeaniene Frost book. I have no idea what she did, but she totally doesn&#8217;t deserve some of the abysmal covers she gets. This isn&#8217;t the worst cover she&#8217;s ever gotten, but it&#8217;s still pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1093,2,1092,1090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12644","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-3hW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644","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=12644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}