Welcome back to Cover Snark!
From Elizabeth S: Why does the nose have a thorn ring and eyeball?
Sarah: I didn’t think that was thorns at first.
Amanda: Got your nose!
Sarah: Haaahaha
Claudia: Not egregiously bad but I did read it as Pokémon Point:
Sarah: Nice dick ice cream on that truck there. Not suggestive or anything. Excellent choice of a pink ice cream on the top, perfect angle, no notes.
What happens at Pokemon or Polkeman point? Is the ice cream an indication?
Claudia: I can’t believe I didn’t see the…ice cream.
Amanda: Not a full on snark, but I thought she had goat feet for a second.
Elyse: It looks like she’s pressing one of those triangle shaped rulers into his chest
Also is that a giant banana on the floor?
This cover reminds me of the puzzle in Highlights magazine where you find the hidden items.
Maya: The banana is the carrying case for Bananagrams!!
Carrie: What is she holding? I still can’t tell.
Sarah: I understand it’s a game that two can play but why are goat hooves and a stack of books for her to stand on involved?
From Lisa: Not sure what happened with this dude’s tattoos, but the tiger on his stomach may be farting flowers? Also, are the tattoos covering a skin condition?
Sarah: Is it me or does he look like Jeremy Strong? Do the tattoos make sense dramaturgically?
Elyse: He looks like he has the fungus from The Last of Us.
Sneezy: This makes me feel a visceral disgust and squick and feels like an overt ploy to make me run screaming back to church.
Concerning Playing Flirty, it’s funny how the two of them decided to build a pile for her to stand on, but they made it so small that she still has to stand on her toes to maybe sorta reach him. It’s as if they had a vague idea that a pile must be created, and the pile must be stood on, but they knew no more than that, and did not build it tall enough, for they saw not the true purpose of piles and of standing on them.
To me, it looks like Playing Flirty is holding an old-fashioned nutcracker. Which would make this a MUCH different kind of book…
Nutcracker II: The Revenge of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
The last cover… Why is there a tattoed pistol pointing into his pants? I’m not sure inquiring minds really want to know but trust me. You do NOT want to shove any “bare” weapon into your pants. If it goes off, it’ll be worse than your pants on fire.
Okay, so I’m trying to use the shadows on the floor by the books or bowl, the boy’s shoes, and the banana, because I keep seeing her feet/hooves as standing on the carpet behind the books.
Shadows aren’t helping. the room is apparently lit in such a way that the shadows for his shoes are her books are cast by a light located between his calves, approximately, but the banana’s shadow is cast by a light somewhere to the right side of the bookshelf, up high, and closer to us than the shelf.
My eyes hurt trying to make that look like how physics works.
@Maya ~ I also saw Bananagrams! Fun game.
I have read “Playing Flirty”, which is a sweet and enjoyable book about Lord of the Rings fans who are gamers. This picture of the cover is not very clear. Looking at the cover of my ebook copy, she is not holding anything-he is wearing a t-shirt with a drawing of The One Ring on it, and her hand is on his chest. Yes, that is Bananagrams on the floor. The goat-like effect is weird, for sure, but a crisper image would answer at least some questions posed.
I would recommend this book, by the way. One thing I really liked about it is that exes are not treated as bad guys but that break-ups sometimes happen when people are growing in different directions and can no longer be what the other needs. It is a story about people growing and learning while falling in love.
On the last cover his tattoos are kind of all over the place (snerk) theme-wise, and wouldn’t you think they should have incorporated his navel as part of the lion’s face? Maybe a nostril or something? And there’s something about Mr Inferno’s eyes that is disturbing, like maybe they’re not both looking in the same direction? And his left forearm is weirdly long, or maybe he has a limb difference on that side? It all adds up to InferNO
@Silver James, it’s so everyone knows he’s “packing heat”.
And not to harsh on someone else’s yum but when I see that many tattoos on a person, my mind starts calculating how many appliances I could have bought with that money. Or the size of the down payment I could put on a new car. Or new flooring.
That first cover is a choice. Why is there an opening into his skull through his nasal cavity? Why is there an eye staring out at me? There is absolutely nothing about this cover that makes me want to read it. Isn’t that the objective of cover art?
@SilverJames I was wondering about the pistol tattoo positioning as well. I have to say, I find his jewlery choices surprisingly tasteful
my eyes hurt from looking at these.
is that a bug on the forehead of Thornhaven? stay away from me.
At first look Mr Inferno’s tattoos looked like a smoke effect to me. Now they are just irritating me because the least they could have done is center the lion/tiger’s head on his abs; It’s offset to our left a bit and as a former layout artist it gets on my nerves. I am also not sure whether that is actually a pistol or just part of the liger’s markings. But that must be some dang special smoke to make his eyes roll back in his head like that.
Along with all the rest of Mr Inferno’s problems — he has a porn ‘stache. There was a time when I liked them on guys — 50 years ago…. Get with the times, dude. (And yes, I’m older than dirt.)
I’m trying to work out which disturbs me more. Is it Thornhaven’s nose, which looked like a wild boar snout with an extra eyeball at first glance? (Actually, a wild boar shifter story is something I haven’t encountered… yet). Or is it Mr Inferno’s weird eyes?
The other two look positively sane by comparison – Playing Flirty is quite sweet. And you mean to say that title isn’t Polkerran Point?
The last guy looks to me like he’s been frozen in Carbonite.