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Silver Metal Lover

At first glance I thought that this woman had a silver neck piercing. Upon subsequent examination and Laura pointing it out to me that this woman is leaking silver, but I think it looks more like mercury. Oh MY GODDESS, this woman is made of liquid metal like the T-1000. If so, can she shape her limbs into “knives and stabbing weapons”? That would be kind of cool. Like maybe she can fashion her arm into a liquid metal dildo to violate the vampire who bites her. Tit for tat, you know. I like how April Martinez strives for realism this time, simulating bite marks on the girl’s neck. Can you see it? I bet Gil Grissom from CSI can totally take an impression of that and catch the vampire who bit her. You know, this girl has really pretty skin, too. She almost looks like a starving homeless man’s Scarlett Johansson. I would have really liked this cover if it weren’t for the mercury leaking out of her neck. Weird choice, April! What kind of creature has mercury blood? Although according to this blurb, she’s not human:

Since she was five years old, Itana has known she was something more than human. What? She didn’t know. Veris, a nasty creature of the dark, has stalked her since then for that very being she’s afraid to acknowledge in herself. If she can continue to hide from Veris until her thirtieth birthday, she will be free of his torment forever. But what can she do when the thing she wants the most, is the very thing that will bring her into his grasp?

Maybe she’s a cyborg. But cyborgs are cybernetic organisms, which means that organic material like flesh would be covering the techno parts. Or I’m thinking about this way too much again.

Thanks for the cover, Laura!

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8 Responses to “Silver Metal Lover”

  1. Katharina
    Posted: May 30th, 2006 at 10:35 am
    1

    You sure that’s leaking silver? To me it looks more like bloodthirsty leeches.URGGGG.

  2. Bam
    Posted: May 30th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
    2

    Bloodthirsty SILVER leeches maybe.

    Eewww. I just thought of something. What if the vampire’s spit had all sorts of leeches in it… like microscopic ones and the leeches do the feeding for him and after they gorge themselves, they get sucked in back into the vampire.

    Man… that is one fucked up story, if that were the case.

  3. Kaitlin
    Posted: May 30th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
    3

    If she’s leaking silver, than I’m a monkey’s uncle. You can see the loop under the skin where the two connect. The cover artist really needs to take a closer look.

    See, this is why you can’t get me to read ebooks. It’s not that they’re bad books; it’s that the art is SO bad that I just don’t feel justified in reading it. Trying to explain it to someone who saw me reading it would be just as bad. :)

  4. Paige Burns
    Posted: May 30th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
    4

    I don’t want to sound too defensvie, because 99% you’re spot on with your covers, but I do want to say that what’s on the covers is the Author’s choice, not necessarily April’s choice.

    And the book actually, is really good. :)

    *and I know I’m setting myself up with posting this-LOL*

  5. Rae Monet
    Posted: May 30th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
    5

    Oh man, I think it’s KEWL and I love April. She rocks!!!!

  6. Bam
    Posted: May 31st, 2006 at 11:57 am
    6

    Yeah… April herself told me that what’s on the covers are usually the author’s choice. My bad, April.

    WHY SILVER BLOOD, FOR FUCK’S SAKE?

  7. Anonymous
    Posted: May 31st, 2006 at 4:56 pm
    7

    LOL! You are hilarious.

    When I started this book I wondered what would happen if a vampire’s true love had silver in her blood. A real problem for a blood sucker, huh? The silver is in her blood to hide her from a monster who wants to mate with her. If she tries to remove it bad things happen. :)

    It’s a dark romance, but one I loved writing. The heroine rocks and finds a man willing to love her no matter what.

    Jennifer
    www.JenniferCloud.com

  8. Bam
    Posted: May 31st, 2006 at 6:27 pm
    8

    Jennifer, I guess the vamps in your ‘verse are allergic to silver? What kind of monster wants to mate with her? A lycanthrope?

    And I’m geek. ::lowers head in shame::

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