No clue if these books are any good...

[telophase]

...but their covers attract me.

I'm really going to have to add "veiled men" to the Cool Bits Generator, because one sure way you can get me to pick up a book is to put a veiled man on the cover glowering out at you:



And I HIGHLY APPROVE of this new cover-art trend to put one figure on a white background. I am really going to have to try doing a painting like this myself.



I don't particularly care for griffins in books. However, LOOK AT THIS COVER. One powerful eye, with the reflection of a glowering woman!




And we're back to the one-figure-on-white thing. I haven't read these books yet, but myrialux rocketed through them. He reports that while they weren't anything out of this world, they kept him reading to the end. And I discovered the author, Brent Weeks, was in Dallas signing books when I was in Dallas, and managed to get over there shortly before he left and bought a copy of his new book for Toby. Weeks said that he often got that comment: people who didn't read a whole lot (Toby tends to play games, watch movies & TV, and code in his spare time instead of read) got sucked in. He's obviously doing something right!

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[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

All of the white-background masked-men ones like like Assassin's Creed covers to me!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

*shifty eyes* I mmmmmight have bought the Assassin's Creed 2 novelization.


ENTIRELY FOR POTENTIAL YULETIDE PURPOSES, I SWEAR! (I watched Toby play enough of the game to get the flavor, now for the plot...)

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I pulled out Night Angel yesterday because I was struck by the cover! (Then I put it back.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

But it's full of red-headed swordsmen! (http://telophase.livejournal.com/1796246.html)

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Oh!! Redheaded swordsmen. I had forgotten about them. I know what I'm picking up with my Borders coupon, muahahahaha. Or perhaps I will just have Amazon bathe and oil it and send it to me. Yes.

I approve of the white background. Maybe I'll try that for my next painting!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

A white background! With a veiled man! GLOWERING! XD

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Of cooourse.

[seawolf10.livejournal.com]

I browsed part of Twelve at Borders a couple weeks back. First oh, 50-100 pages or so. It seemed kind of predictable.

But since it's apparently available as a torrent now, I'm going to give it a shot. If it meets my standards, I'll put it on my "to-get" list.

Apparently, there are supposed to be 4 more books in the series, so I hope it's good.

Link, if you're interested:
http://fenopy.com/torrent/Jasper+Kent+Twelve+DARK+FANTASYHORROR/Mjk1NjE5Nw