Look at the following cover. Imagine that you have only the cover and the information it provides (including images, title and author name) to decide whether to buy this (or any) book.
Would you buy this book having looked only at its cover? If so, what on this cover sold you? If not, what on this cover turned you off?
If you have, in fact, bought and/or read this book, tell us how well our verdicts guided us. Did the cover lead us rightly into great fiction? Or did the cover wrongly steer us toward a bad story or away from a great one?
Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 291 Location: Waco, Texas
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:00 pm
I've read just the first of the Sookie Stackhouse books, "Dead Until Dark," and haven't felt the need to read any further. The cover alone wouldn't get me to reconsider.
Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 291 Location: Waco, Texas
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:50 pm
I don't think it's so much a matter of "chick" book, I just didn't think it was very well written. Cliched characters and dialogue. Plus I'm tired of the vampire as romantic hero. Vampires should be scary. I do know a guy who has been devouring the whole series lately, so it does appeal to some men, and perhaps the books get better as the story develops. ??
I love both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, but the Buffy/Angel relationship is my least favorite thing about it. Strike that...Buffy/Spike is my least favorite, followed by Buffy/Angel, and I liked Boreanaz and his character more when he was the evil Angelus anyway.
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