{"id":3082,"date":"2012-08-15T21:26:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T01:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2021-05-31T19:48:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T23:48:47","slug":"eternal-kiss-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3082","title":{"rendered":"Eternal Kiss of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061783161\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0061783161&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20\">Eternal Kiss of Darkness<\/a><\/em> (2010) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/frost_jeanine.php\">Jeaniene Frost<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/7795072598\/\" title=\"Eternal_Kiss_Darkness-front\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c7.staticflickr.com\/9\/8286\/7795072598_0fea74c432_n.jpg?resize=195%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"195\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Eternal_Kiss_Darkness-front\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I really liked this book. However.<\/p>\n<p>HOLY TOMATOES! THAT IS A HORRIBLE COVER!<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, her Cat and Bones series has decent covers&#8211;good covers even. But this? This makes me want to cringe. Perhaps even rip the cover off and burn it so I don&#8217;t ever have to see it again. I mean, SERIOUSLY. That is the FAKEST LOOKING BLOOD EVER. It looks like someone drew it on with nail polish. What on earth did she do to deserve such horrific, vile covers?! <\/p>\n<p>She writes strong female characters with great plots and HOLY CARP knock your socks of boinking scenes, and this? THIS is the cover they give her? No one deserves this cover. But this book ESPECIALLY does not deserve this cover.<\/p>\n<p>Why not a picture of Kira kicking ass? Or even Mencherches kicking ass? Or giving each other smouldering looks? Or something, ANYTHING other than this horrific nail polish fake blood crap.<\/p>\n<p>I have got to stop looking at this cover or my head is going to explode.<\/p>\n<p>So. This cover is a perfect argument for eBooks. Because you should read this book. But you totally shouldn&#8217;t be caught in public with that cover.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Avon<\/p>\n<p>ADDENDUM the First:<br \/>\nOK, none of the covers I see online look quite as horrific as the cover I have. I am obviously going to have to scan it, so you can see the full horror.<\/p>\n<p>ADDENDUM the Second:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/9647\">EVIDENCE<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eternal Kiss of Darkness (2010) Jeaniene Frost I really liked this book. However. HOLY TOMATOES! THAT IS A HORRIBLE COVER! Seriously, her Cat and Bones series has decent covers&#8211;good covers even. But this? This makes me want to cringe. Perhaps even rip the cover off and burn it so I don&#8217;t ever have to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,203,2,26,56,16],"tags":[50,88,313],"class_list":["post-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-bad","category-fantasy","category-romance","category-sexual-content","category-supernatural","tag-boinking","tag-jeaniene-frost","tag-vampires"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-NI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3691,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3691","url_meta":{"origin":3082,"position":0},"title":"Twice Tempted: A Night Prince Novel","author":"Michelle","date":"March 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Twice Tempted: A Night Prince Novel (2013) Jeaniene Frost NOTICE: If you had not read Jeaniene Frost before, SHE WRITES BOINKING BOOKS. Okay, that's out of the way... The sequel to Once Burned is also not the final book in this series (I'm guessing the middle book of a trilogy,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Twice-Tempted","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Twice-Tempted-185x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3094,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3094","url_meta":{"origin":3082,"position":1},"title":"One Grave at a Time","author":"Michelle","date":"August 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"One Grave at a Time (2011) Jeaniene Frost Here's what I don't get. That horrific cover? Same author. Same publisher, but the covers for this series are pretty damned awesome. And this doesn't even merit something Jim Hines could mock for unrealistic\/uncomfortable body poses! Plus, it's a great book! 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First, let's make this clear--this book is NOT for the faint of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bad Cover&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bad Cover","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/bad"},"img":{"alt_text":"Bound-by-Flames","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Bound-by-Flames.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2412,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2412","url_meta":{"origin":3082,"position":5},"title":"This Side of the Grave","author":"Michelle","date":"June 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This Side of the Grave (2011) Jeaniene Frost The head of the ghouls is fomenting trouble, claiming that Cat is involved in an attempt to subjugate the entire supernatural world, and if they don't take care of her now, they'll end up her (and the vampire's) slaves. 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