Cover Snark: Will It Echo?

Good morning, Bitchery! Or whatever time of day you happen to be reading this. We have some hot and fresh Cover Snark for you!

A Captured Heart by Sondra Grey. A man and a woman in different colored tartan are standing back to back in front of a castle. The man is shirtless and just has a sash and a kilt. The woman is facing down and looking away. He probably just ripped a big one.

From Chelsea: Apparently I downloaded this book late one night whilst roaming Amazon half asleep (as you do). Suffice to say, the cover is…well, there’s a girl with her eyes closed feeling some sort of way standing next to a very intent Fabio-esque male staring out from the cover, and one very forcefully erect male nipple doing the same. Badly-photoshopped covers are commonplace, and I rarely give them a second thought. This, though. It’s something.

Elyse: He totally farted and she just noticed

Sarah: *sigh* “Again? We have another three hours to go in this photo shoot.”

“Just wait until I’m wearing the knight’s armor.”

Elyse: The echo…

Amanda: If the farts are bad enough in the armor, he might just pass out.

Ares by Jessie Rose Case. A headless and shirtless man is apparently in space. His boxer waistband is visible above the waistband of his jeans. There are several purple balls or perhaps planets floating around and one is positioned right over the dude's crotch.

From Andrew: Half of his head is missing, and what kind of cyborg wears boxers? Sigh.

Elyse: Are we sure the planet isn’t growing out of his head?

Amanda: From far away, I thought he was wearing a fedora tilted to the side.

Also, the image of two glowing balls is not lost on me.

Sarah: Nice balls.

Dominus: God of Yule by J. Rose Allister. The cover has a red, faded border and the title is in yellow blocking text. There is a pink sky and a forest in the background. There is a shirtless dude on the cover. He's looking down at his bare chest where there appear to be some glowing trees coming through his skin.

From Carole’s Cover Snark folder!

Sarah: I love that Carole has a desktop cover snark folder where she stashes covers that make her do a double take.

Dominus needs to see a Dermatologist.

Amanda: Ah…I see his problem. His insides are full of pine trees.

Elyse: He’s gonna need an ointment for that.

Sarah: Wait. WAIT. Is he PINING???

Brandon's Bliss by Dave Mayer. A concerned looking, shirtless man is standing in front of a lake while the sun is setting. There are about four or five different fonts in yellow and red.

From Gloriamarie: Brandon’s bliss appears to be narcotic induced.

Sarah: That is a lot of fonts.

Amanda: The hero has since been updated. RIP First Brandon.

Brandon's Bliss by Dave Mayer. It's the same cover above, but the model is replaced with a scruffier looking shirtless dude.

Amanda: Welcome, New Brandon.

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  1. Deborah says:

    Pining? *gives Sarah all the internet gold*

    It looks like old Brandon sees new Brandon approaching and knows the end is nigh. And new Brandon is all, “just keep walkin’, dude. This is my sunset now.”

  2. Diana says:

    Pining! just had me laugh out loud in the office.

  3. angstriddengoddess says:

    Is the hero pining?
    *snickers*
    Sounds to me like you’re … er… needling the cover artist there 😉

  4. Luce says:

    Thanks for the pining comment: my Monday morning needed that.

    Also, to me it looked like the guy’s face of the A Caputured Heart cover is a cut-and-paste job. Or it’s just his intense gaze that is throwing me off/freaking me out.

  5. Sandra says:

    Haven’t we had cover #1 on a different book/snark? It looks awfully familiar. Also, is that Hugh d’Ambry from Ilona Andrews’ Iron and Magic? He looks much better there, and the wig’s not quite so obvious.

  6. Lostshadows says:

    Ah, the Ye Olden days, when men were hair models, women slept on their feet, and the scenery was in strangely muted hues.

    I suspect rocky planets that glow like that aren’t fit for human habitation. There also kinda small. Or is the hero a giant?

    Not sure if those trees are on his chest or if he’s just see through. Neither is all that appealing.

    I think I prefer the first Brandon. He’s less stereotypical Navy SEAL Romantic Lead™ looking.

  7. Lostshadows says:

    Ack! They’re

    I swear, I know the difference!

  8. Susan Reader says:

    My first reaction was surprise that no one commented on the focused frozen stare of the Rogue Highlander, then I looked closer and noticed half of the left side of his face has been copped off! Now I’m impressed (and slightly horrified) that he is not writhing in agony.

  9. Nina says:

    The Captured Heart Guy’s guys face with the side divot gives a whole new meaning to “ chiseled features”.

  10. denise says:

    pining purple glitter lotion–smooth it on and glistening purple pines appear in seconds

  11. Rhoda Baxter says:

    The ‘pining’ comment wins the day!

  12. LauraL says:

    Does Dominus own a Christmas tree farm? Or maybe a yew plantation? I agree … the “pining” comment wins the day.

    The cover lassie on A Captured Heart looks as though she is thinking “Oh dear, what has attached itself to my slipper?”

  13. MaryK says:

    The Captured Heart guy? I’m not sure that’s even his face. It looks like it might be a different face pasted over his face.

  14. Maite says:

    Am I the only one who noticed that old Brandon and new Brandon get different filters? The sun’s so much redder in the second.

    Which of course makes me think, that somewhere out there, there’s a guy and gal who met through a dating site and he’s saying: “That’s totally me in the picture! It’s simply a different filter!”

  15. Jess says:

    You gals seriously SLAY ME. I can’t even. Between bachelorette recaps, and cover snark. I mean the few amount of words you use to get me guffawing…… We don’t discuss the damage you do to my wallet though……Fangirl for life. <3

  16. LMC says:

    Captured Heart guy looks like he’s wearing a wig from the Fabio Hair Club for Men. She’s “Oh F**k, he’s doing that crazy staring thing for no good reason again,”

  17. Zyva says:

    Rogue Highlander: “I am / more brooding than the scenery/ too brooding for anybody.” (Tune: ‘Too sexy’)

    Cyballs: I’m glad those are boxers etc to you. Lucky. I looked too quick and saw a diaper on a dude in a ball pit. (And I don’t happen to be into that.)

    0 Kelvin Pines: How does someone with a Jack Frost look, sorta, (Jacked Frost) get called Dominus? Especially when he’s only a “Son of” (demigod?)?

    Though who knows, if people react by waxing kinda Shakespearean: “I burn, I pine, I perish”… or “hot ice and wondrous strange snow”, maybe it’ll catch on, like seachange, treechange etc.

    Btw great makeup. That’s the exact shade of purple I went swimming in winter.

  18. SM Haggerty says:

    Yikes, that is one really aggressive nipple on the first cover.

  19. stacey says:

    Are those blue balls?

  20. Deb in Atlanta says:

    Pinin’ for the fjords?

  21. Louise says:

    I can’t make head or tail of that last title, and I blame the fonts. If it were
    Brandon’s
    Bliss

    Heroes for Hire
    then you could postulate a “Heroes for Hire” series, in which Brandon’s Bliss is but one title, and perhaps not even the cheesiest of the lot.

    But instead it’s
    Brandon’s
    Bliss
    Heroes for Hire

    and then you’re compelled to ask: What the heck is a bliss hero, and what do you hire them for? (Wait, don’t answer that.) Does Brandon control a whole stable of them, like Charlie’s Angels? I don’t want to consider the possibility that there’s a whole series of those, beginning with Brandons mark 1 and mark 2: Trevor’s BHfH, Justin’s BHfH, Aidan’s BHfH and so on.

  22. Dee says:

    #1. Not only did she notice, but she is also thinking to herself, “Damn you, Paolo, I TOLD you to not have that escarole smoothie. Smells worse than the covershoot when you had Kale.” Paolo is apparently a method model, and is not only seducing the photographer, but also attempt to sway everyone who sees the cover.

    #2 Is the planet purple? Do his balls glow purple? I believe that’s a more immediate call to the doctor than the 4 hour erection. And Galatic Cyborg Heat? Is he an alien cop? Robocop on Mars?

    #3 Sarah killed me with pining. So is his scared power that he has trees in his chest? or is he a forest god? Deer stag shifter?

    #4 I love how each Brandon is looking in a different direction. The first has the expression of “My agent is so not getting his 10%”. The second is sunset smoldering. Never knew it was a thing…

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