Grade: B I love Angela Knight. I have enjoyed most of everything she has written and admired her in the past for breaking the mold of conventional romantic plots and daring to be different. She has a very colorful imagination, a way of writing her sex scenes without making them seem porny or contrived, and [...]
Archive | April, 2006
A Lying, Deceitful Cover
April 28, 2006
Sometimes, it’s not the cover. In fact, there’s nothing wrong with this cover except the weird, severely airbrushed disembodied head over this woman’s shoulder. What pisses me off about this cover is that it’s a big, fat lie. It’s not a “dark paranormal” in the vein of Angela Knight or Susan Squires, like the dark [...]
Is it Time for My Close-Up?
April 26, 2006
How come Loretta Chase gets the suckiest covers? She’s a widely respected writer, writes pretty damned good books at that, and has a very loyal fanbase… and yet her publishers keep slapping her with covers featuring some vapid pretty boy with a blank look in his eyes. This guy looks mesmerized, as though just over [...]
Where Are Her Boobs?
April 25, 2006
I keep telling myself that I’m not going to make fun of CG covers anymore. It’s just too easy and I like a cover that challenges my snarking capabilities. But this one… well, it’s black with varying shades of red, since it’s a vampire story. The black means… um, darkness and gloom. Oh, and shadows. [...]
Like Water For Cheesy
April 25, 2006
Hmm… two cover models who are a little too dark and exotic-looking to be Caucasian. Wait a minute, this isn’t Harlequin Deseo! What’s going on? If the girl had been a blond and obviously white, it would be okay that the male is a little dark, a little Latin-looking, but two models–albeit quite attractive–who look [...]

April 28, 2006
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