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Lessons In French: The Kinsale Cover for 2010
by SB Sarah | by SB Sarah | August 26, 2009 | Wednesday at 6:00 pm | 65 CommentsSix months from right about now, Laura Kinsale’s new book, Lessons in French will be released. But Sourcebooks asked if we’d like to see the cover they’d been keeping under wraps inside a vault behind the sofa hidden under some weird tapestry.
I said, “Sure!”
So: here it is, the cover for Lessons in French.
Placing the couple off-center on the cover is interesting, and the colors pop in that illustration. I can’t help but think her leg is underlining the lessons, part. Lessons in French—avec leg!
What do you think? Are you looking forward to reading it? Or have you never tried a Kinsale novel?
Filed: Covers Gone Wild! (Non-Snoop Dogg Edition), General Bitching, The Link-O-Lator
Tagged: sourcebooks, lessons in french, laura kinsale, cover comparisons
GrowlyCub said on 08.26.09 at 06:28 PM • [link]
I like the colors, but I’m really tired of all these women showing so much skin, particularly outdoors. It’s just too darn anachronistic. I’m all for fantasy, but can we get an itty tiny itty bitty bitty bit of realism, occasionally, pretty please?
As for the book itself: I was really excited to hear there’s a new Kinsale coming, but once I saw her comments on it being a ‘light’ book, my interest plummeted to nothing. I tried to read the one with the hedgehog and didn’t make it past page 5 or so. I don’t do ‘funny’ a la slapstick or farce and knowing I didn’t like her other ‘light’ book, I’m not very hopeful for this one. Hopefully, though, if it sells well, maybe she’ll get to write something meatier again!
I’m having issues with Dare’s newest because of that, too. All those ‘funny’ incidents aren’t funny at all, at least not to me.
caligi said on 08.26.09 at 06:29 PM • [link]
I worry about it. MJP wrote some great, great, romances in the 90s and then her triumphant return to historicals was straight-up dreadful with that Lost Lord book.
If it’s bad, it’s going to be so disappointing.
WorthaFortune said on 08.26.09 at 06:38 PM • [link]
I’ve never read one. But I am so down!
I love this cover. I like how the colors pop. We shall see if those colors are true in print. I’ve noticed that sometimes colors are darker when they’ve finally printed vs. the computer monitor.
also: the quote below that title is worth a million dollars!
GrowlyCub said on 08.26.09 at 06:44 PM • [link]
caligi, I really liked the first half or so, until she poured on the sugar and I kept thinking, she didn’t just do that, did she? and then again, I cannot believe she did that! and by the ending I wanted to throw up because it was so damn unrealisti c, I was waiting for the unicorn to show up and spit out rainbows out of its ass. Talk about disappointment!
Jessica Scott said on 08.26.09 at 07:02 PM • [link]
If you’ve never read a Kinsale novel, you are missing one of the best that fiction has to offer. She’s fantastic. I recently read her book Seize the Fire and it takes a lot to make me cry in a book but she did it. Laura Kinsale was also sincerely cool enough to catch a tweet (thank you SB for passing along my tweet at Nationals by the way) of me asking for clarification if there were really LK arcs available. So Ms. Kinsale emailed me a copy of the sample chapter she was handing out at Nationals. She’s incredible and I cannot wait for Lessons in French to be released. And thank fully, I should be home from Iraq in time to get my copy in real time, rather than through mail delay!
liz m said on 08.26.09 at 07:08 PM • [link]
@ Jessica Scott - yet ANOTHER reason to end the deployments, and thank you if you’re on one.
Re Lessons In French - if there were a time machine I’d walk in it and read everything else as backlist.
MamaNice said on 08.26.09 at 07:14 PM • [link]
Kinsale is my all time favorite romance author…I am excited to hear of a new novel from her, but I didn’t love ShadowHeart nearly as much as her earlier stuff…so we shall see.
SB Sarah - my mind just must be naughty-naughty, your first thought was “How do you say leg in French”...mine was “How do you say lifting your skirt and opening your trousers so you can have sex while standing out in the countryside in French?”
Sidenote - no clue why, but her dress makes me think of the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland.
I do like the off center placement of the couple though. Sexy jawline!
Robin L. Rotham said on 08.26.09 at 07:17 PM • [link]
I guess I really should try her—I’ve been scarfing down Liz Carlyle, Loretta Chase and Elizabeth Hoyt by the boxful lately. But I’m not liking the sound of “pouring on the sugar”—I do NOT have a sweet tooth when it comes to romance. Will I be gagging?
As for the cover, they kept it under wraps…why? I’m not really seeing anything spectacular there.
GrowlyCub said on 08.26.09 at 07:20 PM • [link]
Robin, sorry, that was about the new Mary Jo Putney title, NOT the Kinsale!
ocelott said on 08.26.09 at 07:31 PM • [link]
Actually, I was thinking Cinderella, with the blue, the short puffy sleeves, the black choker, and the updo.
Disney Princess vibes aside, this cover is sexy! Love the off-centre, and the fact the two of them are facing each other in a position that doesn’t require insane acrobatics. Ok, perhaps a tad anachronistic to show that much skin, but at least what they’re doing is feasible.
Madd said on 08.26.09 at 07:32 PM • [link]
New Kinsale? I may have to squee like a fan girl. You don’t judge a book by it’s cover, but that’s a damned pretty cover.
What I want to know is when are they bringing the site back? The temp page is pretty, but can a girl get some new info?
I think that because there hasn’t been a new Kinsale book in a while the publishers wanted to keep it mum until closer to the release date. Make it sort of like a teaser for the book.
katiebabs said on 08.26.09 at 07:32 PM • [link]
Aw shucks, no vintage mantitty cover model ala Flowers From the Storm?
I like it. Shows the woman being forceful by straddling the hero.
Tina C. said on 08.26.09 at 07:35 PM • [link]
I like the change up on the clinch cover—it’s a clinch, but the woman is in the dominate position and looks like she’s taking charge. The yellow font of the author’s name really pops against all of those blues. With that and the way that the couple is off-center, it makes this clinch more of a backdrop than is usual.
That said, it does look like her knee is digging into his thigh and he’s trying to push her back some to relieve the pressure.
Lorelie said on 08.26.09 at 07:42 PM • [link]
Huh. I find the progression of type faces that Sourcebooks has done with the Kinsale books very interesting and savy. When they did the reprints, they kept basically the same fonts as the Avon books for both name and title. Now it’s the same distinctive font for the name, but that different scripty one for the title. I like.
MamaNice said on 08.26.09 at 08:16 PM • [link]
ocelott - yes! It is Cinderalla I was thinking of…I’m adapting Carroll’s work for my drama co. right now, so I must have Alice on the brain.
(And secretly, I adore the old skool Kinsale ManTitty covers…esp Prince of Midnight and Flowers From the Storm, yum.)
Meljean Brook said on 08.26.09 at 08:20 PM • [link]
Love the cover, but I really love that the book is listed at 480 pages.
Kiersten said on 08.26.09 at 08:46 PM • [link]
Can’t. Wait. Uncertain Magic and Shadow and the Star are deserted island books for me. UM was one of the first books with which I ever totally fell in love. Very excited for a new Kinsale!!
Kiersten said on 08.26.09 at 08:46 PM • [link]
Oh - and I love the cover - I love how the color pops. Plus! No extra appendages! Score!
Elizabeth Wadsworth said on 08.26.09 at 08:56 PM • [link]
I like the fact that the guy has his shirt buttoned and tucked in for once (guess they had to compensate by showing the girl’s anachronistically waxed leg, but it’s cool that she seems to be the one taking charge of the situation.)
I’ll be looking forward to this one—even the weakest Kinsale I’ve read is still miles ahead of most everything else stylistically.
seton said on 08.26.09 at 09:24 PM • [link]
This is gonna be mass-market and not trade like her re-issues, right?
Lorelie said on 08.26.09 at 09:39 PM • [link]
Her re-issues are mass market. Maybe you’re thinking of the trade size Georgette Heyers from Sourcebooks?
Lynne Connolly said on 08.26.09 at 09:48 PM • [link]
I have been waiting for this book for soooo long!
I love Kinsale, the writer and her books. I have a copy of the demented Fabio cover for “Flowers From The Storm.” I got that book in a box of books from the States and I left it till last because of the stupid cover, but wow, what a book!
So I don’t give a crap what cover they give her. I want it now!
When I was a new writer, with one Regency to my name, I went to a chat room where Kinsale was promoting her latest book. She asked what I did, and I said I was a new writer starting out. She got me to promo my book in that room, before all those people, though I only went to celebrate her new release. I’ll never forget that kindness and generosity.
But that isn’t why I’m waiting for her new book. I just want it like now. I can see a re-read session coming up.
RStewie said on 08.26.09 at 09:53 PM • [link]
I’m so full of squee about another Kinsale coming out, and although I LOVE her darker books, I’ll take any Kinsale I can get.
SOOO glad, too, that the Shortened Length Plague isn’t a threat. Thank you for throwing that out there, Meljean—I didn’t even know I was worried about that until I saw your post and was relieved.
SandyO said on 08.26.09 at 09:58 PM • [link]
I don’t care what the cover looks like. Only one thing matters the name LAURA FREAKING KINSALE. Can’t we get the book NOW. I don’t think I can wait six more months.
SonomaLass said on 08.26.09 at 10:11 PM • [link]
I’m excited for this book! Even the bare leg excites me (hur!); I’ve had a run of excellent luck with bare-legged lady books. The half-heads are a little annoying, but I like the color saturation, the off-center placement, and the girl on top position (um, on this cover, I mean <.
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Candy got me reading Kinsale (better late than never school), and I figure this new one should be out right around the time I finish her backlist…if I take my time.
MaryK said on 08.26.09 at 10:29 PM • [link]
It’s a nice cover - not that it matters to me. If it were going to have a hideous cover, I’d preorder right now if I could.
MaryK said on 08.26.09 at 10:37 PM • [link]
Just followed the link and realized I can preorder now! Off to build a free shipping Amazon order.
mingqi said on 08.26.09 at 10:45 PM • [link]
wow the colors really do pop! Even though they’re in a pseudo-clinch position, I like how though she’s showing her leg, the dress isn’t untied or falling off her. All she has to do is stand back up and then she’d be looking like a modest debutante again. I really like how the dress flowed instead of being all scrunched up like in other books. And the guy looks like he just took off his coat- shirt and waistcoat are still on. None of that bare-chest business that made me feel inadequate about my A-cup boobs. Like others have said- her take charge position is also really refreshing!
can’t wait till this comes out!
Marianne McA said on 08.26.09 at 11:35 PM • [link]
I’ll buy the book. Don’t like the cover, but I don’t like a lot of romance covers, so that’s okay.
The herbaceous border seems a bit odd, in that that style of garden doesn’t seem to match the period the dress suggests - and if those are hostas and montbretia (hard to tell), I think they’re both Victorian introductions. It looks, to be honest, like someone’s taken a photograph of a current garden of an older house and just assumed that the original gardens would have looked the same. (That’s extreme nit-picking, isn’t it?)
DS said on 08.26.09 at 11:53 PM • [link]
I’m a big Kinsale fan from way back, but I wasn’t too fond of her last book—Shadowheart? In fact it was a DNF for me because I thought she had wimped out on the characters and the plot. I also do not get BDSM, just plain can’t feel it.
However, for the love of all her other books I’ll try this one.
To be blunt: no, don’t like the cover. It’s retro and the position looks strained. The title also strikes me as less interesting than her other titles.
There now, I sound really grumpy—I think I have a migraine coming on today.
mrshankly said on 08.27.09 at 12:11 AM • [link]
So SOOO excited for new Kinsale - one of my favorite authors regardless of genre. I do like the cover, and I’ve been looking forward to this since you guys announced the Feb release date. I can’t wait!
Anonymous said on 08.27.09 at 12:13 AM • [link]
As somebody who is colorblind, this cover is REALLY difficult to understand. Light text against a very busy background seems to work fine for most people, but I find it almost impossible to see all of the letters on the first glance. The combination of some kind of forest background with parts of people’s bodies is difficult to tease apart (I mean that I thought they were all part of the same thing at first). I know that most publishers don’t take colorblind people into account when putting together books, but if you’re an author who has any kind of say at all in the design, layout, or color scheme of your book cover, please try to keep people like me in mind.
HelenK said on 08.27.09 at 12:27 AM • [link]
Gorgeous. I love it.
Oh, and my SIL has super baby fine hair and unless you’re up close, you can’t tell if she’s shaved or not, so I don’t consider this leg to be weirdly bare (as suggested above)
molly_rose said on 08.27.09 at 01:06 AM • [link]
I’m surprised nobody else thought of the inside-flap of Mine Till Midnight.
These two covers are REALLY similar!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/0312949804/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_0?ie=UTF8&index=0
Hopefully you can see the pic I’m referring to there… (I’m not good at that linking biznatch, and rather technologically inept in general)
Caitlin said on 08.27.09 at 01:14 AM • [link]
I love the off-center position. It’s as if the heroine has just leapt upon her delicious man-bit with so much enthusiasm that he’s staggered backwards and off-center.
Not that I would have any experience bowling over my man-bit with enthusiasm . . . noooooooooo . . .
Darlene Marshall said on 08.27.09 at 01:21 AM • [link]
I’m always excited about the prospect of a new Kinsale. The cover is classic Historical Romance, which might attract the new generation of readers who do not yet know of Ms. Kinsale’s wonderfulness.
Laura Kinsale said on 08.27.09 at 01:28 AM • [link]
Thanks for posting the cover, SB’s! I just saw it myself a week or so ago. Sourcebooks has been working very diligently to get this book on the shelves as early as possible and so their schedule has been tight.
Hey, GrowlyCub, I hear you about the concern of “is this going to be a silly farcical book?” I’ve called it “light,” and truly it is—as opposed to “dark.” So it may not be the book for you. Everyone has their individual tastes and lord knows my books always get strong reactions both positive and negative. ;-)
I didn’t write LESSONS IN FRENCH because I was told (or even encouraged) to write or not to write anything—long or short, dark or light, meaty or frivolous. I wanted to write it. But typecasting is a force in publishing just as it is in Hollywood. After I’d finished it, the reaction from the first one or two publishers who saw it seemed to be, we’d like to buy it while we’re waiting for a big dark book from you. I’ll be honest, I did not want it to be a “hold my place for me” book. I thought it deserved better. Also I felt at the time that there were some technical weaknesses in the structure. So I told my agent to take it off the table. I fixed the technical issues and I put it away.
It took Deb Werksman at Sourcebooks (thank you Deb!) to remind me to get this book back out and read it again. Because I hadn’t worked with it for so long, and I have a memory like a sieve, I could read it cold, the way a reader would. And ya know what? It’s not just a nice book. It’s a great book. It’s got great characters, as good as any I’ve written. And that is what I promise to my readers. Every book I write will not appeal to every reader. But I will always give it the best that I have. I will always put my heart into it. And it won’t go into print unless the characters are living, breathing people with their own unique story. That’s why I write, and that’s definitely what you can expect from LESSONS IN FRENCH. :)
As to the cover, it’s fairly traditional but I think the colors are lovely and the title font is pretty cute. The characters fit the book—as someone said, “Nice jawline!”
LK
Cathy said on 08.27.09 at 02:24 AM • [link]
What I want to know is, does the cover image accurately represent a moment in the story? It’s one of my (probably totally unreasonable) quirks that I get annoyed when I look at the cover after finishing the book and say “nothing like that ever happened in this story!”
If there is only one outdoor clinch in this book, then I do not want to read that it occurred in the rain or that the heroine was wearing green that day. I just like it when the cover makes sense in context. It feels like the people who worked on the book cared about it.
Beth R said on 08.27.09 at 02:29 AM • [link]
I like to cover but I have to wonder what kinda of French lessons are we talking about here.
Never read any of her books.
Robin said on 08.27.09 at 03:13 AM • [link]
My first response was positive (although I wish they had chosen a different author quote - *not necessarily* a different author, but definitely a different quote), and I’ve come back several times to double check that reaction, but it’s still positive. It says pastoral to me, it says sensual, it says fun and a little daring. I especially like that the female figure is above the male figure, that she’s not stick-thin, and I like the pastoral look to the background. I think it fits and I think it’s appealing. I even think the bit of leg is sexy.
GrowlyCub said on 08.27.09 at 03:29 AM • [link]
Definitely a question of taste. I think I’m getting a tad intolerant in my middle age… :) There are certain things I cannot deal with any longer that 25 years ago didn’t bother me one bit and overall, I’ve always tended more towards the ‘darker’ stories. I only discovered your books last year and have had a lovely time with many of them (except the hedgehog one, lol).
I’ll definitely check out LiF and thank you for explaining its genesis. I love hearing how these things evolve and get insights into the author’s process.
I hope the muse will bring you many more stories, if not for me, then for the many thousands of other fans you have.
Susan/DC said on 08.27.09 at 03:30 AM • [link]
Laura Kinsale could probably take the phone book and turn it into an interesting character study. I’ve been saving Seize the Fire just so I’d have an unread Kinsale to look forward to, but now I can read that one and have Lessons in French to look forward to. I like the cover—it’s not groundbreaking but it’s very pretty.
KB said on 08.27.09 at 04:16 AM • [link]
I have never read Kinsale but it sounds like I should give it a try. Is there a specific title anyone would suggest for an introduction to her writing?
Melissandre said on 08.27.09 at 04:22 AM • [link]
I think I’ve had bad Laura Kinsale luck. I checked Shadowheart out from the library, but a 30 page section was missing. The first love scene was in there! That’s crucial stuff! Yeah, the subsequent relationship pretty much hinged on that scene. Because I was missing that intense (I think) scene, and hadn’t read For My Lady’s Heart, I wasn’t as moved as some were by Allegreto’s story. Then I tried to read The Hidden Heart, and I just couldn’t get into it. I keep looking for the Kinsale books everybody mentions and loves; they’re in my “to read” pile. Until then, I remain unconverted.
Vanessa said on 08.27.09 at 04:45 AM • [link]
This cover is all kinds of awesome :D Colors are pretty, chick on top is hot, a little leg looks flirty, I just love it!
Also, Kinsale is in my Top 3 authors, everything she’s written has touched my soul, and I thank her for it. Although, out of all her books, Seize the Fire is the only one I can’t reread, it’s entirely too heart wrenching. I am beyond excited for a this new book, I’m counting down the days already lol
Ps: For new readers, I recommend Flowers from the Storm, it’s not like any other romance I’ve ever read :)
Esther said on 08.27.09 at 04:53 AM • [link]
Just wanted to say that her leg is WAY too small in comparison to the rest of her, particularly her bosom!
These kinds of things always distract me and then I can’t stop noticing it!
ashley said on 08.27.09 at 05:13 AM • [link]
I agree that the cover is fantastic (I love her dress) but what is the book about? even the title is sexy!
Nicole S. said on 08.27.09 at 05:15 AM • [link]
The cover? Meh. And the leg looks weirdly lit and over-photoshopped.
A new Kinsale book? CAPSLOCK CANNOT FULLY EXPRESS MY FANGIRLY JOY!!!!
Hope it’s good. I’ve loved 4 of the Kinsale books I’ve read, but darn near threw ShadowHeart against the wall.
Sherry Thomas said on 08.27.09 at 05:17 AM • [link]
GrowlyCub,
Lessons in French is, imho, NOT very much like Midsummer Moon.
Yes, there is the bull in the kitchen. But underlying this one is much more angst than Midsummer Moon. The heroine is not absentminded, the hero is not uptight.
And to my delight and surprise, this one can actually be considered a reunited-lovers story, which Kinsale does not do very often.
Mellisandre,
If you like medievals, by all means give For My Lady’s Heart a try. I love it so much. I also love The Shadow and the Star, which totally turned me onto the turn-of-the-century era.
silverflame said on 08.27.09 at 05:23 AM • [link]
I LOVE Laura Kinsale and I can’t wait to read the book. She is hands down the BEST!
BTW can we all get off of our high horses about “realism” people? Romantic fiction is all about fantasy. Having a girl bare her leg on the cover of a novel is sexy and that is what we are all after when we read these books (or am I wrong, and it’s just me and I’m just a huge horn-dog?) Sorry but I’m more likely to read this book than, say, a Heyer book with a properly dressed Laaaydaaay.
GrowlyCub said on 08.27.09 at 05:35 AM • [link]
Yup, you are wrong.
GrowlyCub said on 08.27.09 at 05:36 AM • [link]
Sherry, thanks for letting me know. I’ll be curious to compare notes next year!
SonomaLass said on 08.27.09 at 06:02 AM • [link]
Well, a sexy bare leg on a Heyer would be false advertising, since she doesn’t write overtly sexy romance. But I LOVE Heyer, and don’t need or want her books to be sexy.
Thanks, Ms. Kinsale, for giving us that insight into your process and your choices. And thanks as usual for being a classy writer who understands that you can’t please everyone and so it’s okay for a reader not to like everything you’ve written. I haven’t found the book of yours yet that I didn’t like, but I really respect that attitude from an author.
Polly said on 08.27.09 at 06:03 AM • [link]
argh, just typed up a comment, pressed the wrong button, and the computer ate it.
This site introduced me to Kinsale, and when I was deterred by the truly terrible Fabio cover of Flowers from the Storm, convinced me to read it. I loved it, and everything else of hers I could get my hands on (though some worked better for me than others). I’m eagerly awaiting the new book, especially knowing it’s not so heavy/dark (pick your word). My patience is pretty low for unrelieved angst (which all too often comes with unrelieved sap) and I’ll take a sprightly romcom over a trip through the emotional wringer any day. Kinsale excepted, of course—she’s one of the authors who made me realize I could and occasionally did like the trip through the emotional wringer.
As for the cover, I love the colors, but I’m a little tired of partially headless people, though I think it’s interesting that they [partially headless, or completely headless people] don’t seem to signify “romance” quite as strongly as some of the older cover conventions, but rather “fiction.” Which is a good thing, since I’m not a fan of genre segregation.
Suzanne said on 08.27.09 at 07:00 AM • [link]
That cover could have a turd on it and I’d buy it cuz it’s LK…I am so excited to get a new book from her FINALLY!
emdee said on 08.27.09 at 02:35 PM • [link]
New Kinsale? And I have to wait 6 months? What sweet torture! This site also introduced me back into romance in general and Kinsale in particular and I am a 60 year old squeeing fangirl!
Kelly said on 08.27.09 at 03:47 PM • [link]
Gotta agree with Suzanne. Doesn’t matter what the cover looks like (even though I do like this one), as long as it is a new Kinsale, I’m gonna read it. I’ve have been waiting and waiting for her new book. Read on multiple blogs many moons ago that she was in the midst of a new book, but nothing ever got published. I checked her website periodically for updates and was sorely disappointed when the website turned into just a holding page. Arggg. But now I’m definitely filled with delight knowing that in 6 months there will be another to read! I’m just hoping that LK is filled with tons of inspiration because I’m sure I’ll devour the book in a few days. And waiting for a favorite author is torture if you have no idea they will be publishing another or not.
Robin said on 08.27.09 at 09:38 PM • [link]
I agree with Sherry Thomas that Lessons in French is not very much like Midsummer Moon. At least it wasn’t for me.
I have to say that I loved this book, perhaps because it felt—to me, at least— a little like what Olympia and Sheridan’s (from Seize the Fire) story would have been were they raised MUCH more normally (and lovingly) and met as happy-go-lucky teenagers.
Sarah S said on 08.28.09 at 12:40 AM • [link]
Does anyone else think that the woman’s anatomy is a bit off? Maybe it’s the angle she’s twisting at, but her leg and arm look kind of small in comparison to her torso.
Leah Hultenschmidt said on 08.28.09 at 05:27 PM • [link]
Interesting that they went with such a different look from the soft landscape covers of the reissues.
Karla said on 08.28.09 at 10:17 PM • [link]
Like the cover - pretty colors - but I’ll pass. Uncertain Magic was such a wallbanger of a book.
Coco said on 08.28.09 at 11:39 PM • [link]
Yay, yay, yay! To be honest it could be another Fabio (*ducking*) cover and I’d be happy that this book is being published. Doing my Happy Duck Dance!
Denise said on 08.29.09 at 06:57 AM • [link]
The cover is okay but doesn’t really do anything for me. I’ve seen a gazillion similar to it in the historical romance group. Nice colors, but the woman’s leg looks disproportionate to the rest of her.
I’ve read several of Kinsale’s books. She’s not an auto-buy for me, and I wouldn’t consider myself a fangirl by a long shot. However, I’ve liked her stories for the most part and would recommend them to someone who might just be dipping their toe in the historical romance subgenre.
Kam said on 08.29.09 at 07:56 AM • [link]
well, I think the cover is blah—but, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE LK’s BOOKS!!!
She is my all time favorite author, and seriously, I don’t even care what the freakin’ cover looks like—if I see her name on a book, I will buy it, end of story.
I think the graphic designer must be a fan of her work because he/she did a great job of putting her name in big bold letters. It’s almost as if the artist new a simple image would never do justice to the words that follow…all one really needs to know is that LK wrote it, LOL :-D
Seriously though, whenever I finish one of her books, I always put it down with a sigh, and a little smile.
Elizabeth Krentz-Wee said on 08.31.09 at 02:55 AM • [link]
I had only read Kinsale’s titles that were available as ebooks until the last few weeks. My local library - small, rural - is not able to carry them, nor the other area libraries. I’ve been pickigng them up from online used book dealers.
I love the depth I find in her books. I just finished The Dream Hunter, and am ready to go to Wiki and see what else I can find about Lady Hester Stanhope. Her books are more than plot and character; they are a window into the time and culture(s) in each book.
I trust LK: a light book may be just what some of us need.
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