{"id":16305,"date":"2020-12-18T20:35:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T01:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=16305"},"modified":"2021-01-28T17:25:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T22:25:53","slug":"the-books-of-2020-book-covers-i-hated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/16305","title":{"rendered":"The Books of 2020: Covers I Hated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As is traditional, I&#8217;ll start with the book covers I hated. That way we can be positive from there on out.<\/p>\n<p>Pleasantly, there were only three covers I really disliked this year, and as expected, they were all from Avon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Emerald-Blaze.jpg?w=400\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\"  alt=\"Emerald Blaze\" align=\"right\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3mZWcOk\"><em>Emerald Blaze<\/em><\/a> (2020) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/andrewsi.php\">Ilona Andrews<\/a> (Hidden Legacy) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/pages\/avonromance\">Avon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t as awful as the other covers in this series&#8211;but that&#8217;s not saying a whole lot, since it&#8217;s still pretty awful.<\/p>\n<p>I do not understand what they have done to get such abysmal covers, but they are always awful. I don&#8217;t recall her wearing a dress even once in this story&#8211;and the dress in the picture is ill-fitting. They did an awful job photoshopping her knife\/sword into her hand, and the guy just creeps me out, with his blank stare and no neck and terribly photoshopped hands.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/A-Delicate-Deception.jpg?zoom=2&#038;resize=199%2C300\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" align=\"right\" alt=\"A Delicate Deception\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2GEeuoN\"><em>A Delicate Deception<\/em><\/a> (2019) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/romance\/Sebastian_Cat.php\">Cat Sebastian<\/a> (Regency Imposters) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/pages\/avonromance\">Avon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His shirt unbuttoned and tucked into his pants. Besides that there&#8217;s nothing explicitly awful about it, yet it creeps me out.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Daring-and-the-Duke.jpg?w=600\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Daring and the Duke\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2X1vTMR\"><em>Daring and the Duke<\/em><\/a> (2020) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/romance\/MacLean_Sarah.php\">Sarah MacLean<\/a> (The Bareknuckle Bastards) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/pages\/avonromance\">Avon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Again, there is nothing specific about this cover I can put my finger on, but I hate it all.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/16326\">The Books of 2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is traditional, I&#8217;ll start with the book covers I hated. That way we can be positive from there on out. Pleasantly, there were only three covers I really disliked this year, and as expected, they were all from Avon. Emerald Blaze (2020) Ilona Andrews (Hidden Legacy) &#8211; Avon This isn&#8217;t as awful as the [&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-16305","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-4eZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305","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=16305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}