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: Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:55 am
The tv series is brand new, the books have been around for several years. I haven't read any of them yet, and even though fantasy is less interesting to me than science fiction, at least it is closer to the urban fantasy I would prefer. This is also the first of the Dresden novels, so it would be the best to start with. I might buy this one, or at least read as much as I could on a store visit to see if it appeals, then if so I might get the SFBC omnibus instead.
Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 318 Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:16 pm
First, I wouldn't have picked the book up on the cover alone. It's not really all that interesting looking.
Second, I have read the book. It is a very popular urban fantasy series and similar in vein to what I'm working on. I enjoyed the book but haven't gone any further into the series.
Third, the TV series just debuted on Sunday. It was the novels' popularity that inspired the TV show.
I did buy the book, but as an omnibus of the first three novels. Enjoyed them all and I am not a big fantasy reader. It appealed to me on several levels. It was dark, it had mystery and the fairies did not make me want to throw the book down and run screaming from the room.
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