Cover Snark: When Your Hair Doubles as a Fidget Toy

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Ember and Steel by Donna Morgan. An outline of a woman, but she is on fire and a sword is piercing her chest.

From Maeve: Her bra sheath slipped. The angle’s also wrong to go through her heart. And no arms? The longer I look at this, the more wrong it feels.

Sarah: I know what I’m looking at but everything looks slightly…off.

Amanda: An accurate depiction of my acid reflux.

Sarah: Gosh, mine, too. Yikes.

Some Bunny to Love by Lorelei Hart and Aria Grace. A headless shirtless man is holding a photoshopped bunny in his hand, which is coincidentally right as his waistline.

From Jen: Not sure what’s wrong with this cover but it’s just wrong.

Sarah: That is some terrible photoshop. I’m appalled on behalf of rabbits everywhere.

Tara: Sir, step away from that bunny.

Sarah: I think the face was photoshopped in and it’s giving me the jibblies with a level 10 ick.

Evading Miran by RK Munin. A bright green shirtless man wielding a blaster pistol in space. His hair looks like a 3D printed bright blue spiky shell.

From Syntha: What in the horrible photoshopped hair is this?

Sarah: Who stole the armor off an armadillo for that guy’s head? What a photoshop crime!

Susan: Should – should we tell him his armour’s crooked? He’s got to know, right

Elyse: His hair looks like a 3D printed fidget toy.

Pasties and Poor Decisions by Molly Harper. An illustrated cover with two faceless people. The man has a beard and is wearing a long red button down and jeans. He has a toolbox in his hand. A faceless blonde woman stands opposite him in a dark orange skirt and light orange tank.

From Tara C: I opened my Audible app this morning to see Molly Harper’s Pasties and Poor Decisions being sold to me. I love Molly Harper, and the title has a lot of potential. But my brain is having trouble processing the color choices and the poor woman’s face. And her skirt and the sample-sized tool box.

Sarah: MORE ICK. What is with the faceless folks with lips and/or beards? It’s kinda creeping me out.

Also, the part where the letters don’t line up is making me twitchy.

Elyse: Beard no eyes is a look.

Sarah: Beard and Brows. The only look you need.

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  1. LisaM says:

    I looked up Some Bunny to Love because I used to read Lorelei Hart’s unlimited mpreg books in KU (I wasn’t expecting an alpha rabbit here, and now I’m picturing the Monty Python killer rabbit). I don’t know why I was surprised to find that there are now m/m mpreg shifter hockey books in KU.

  2. SusanE says:

    The green man lost a bet with his friends and is now evading his wife Miran because he knows she’ll laugh at his new hairdo.

  3. I think the problem with the bunny cover is twofold: one, the arms and hands were photoshopped in at an awkward angle (and do not match the color of the body) and two, the small size of the bunny’s body and the way it’s positioned kinda makes it look like his bush grew a head.

    Mr Miran has a blackberry for a head and is either some kind of centaur or has an enormous purple bubble-butt.

  4. Merle says:

    “Evading Miran”: Who knew aliens wore child size vintage swim caps as a fashion statement? Also, is he a chameleon? Each of his forearms matches the background behind it, not each other or the rest of his body.

    “Some Bunny…”: the human’s head seems much too small for his body, but the rabbit’s head seems too large. I really like baby bunnies, but they don’t exactly signal romance to me.

  5. Jaws says:

    Mr Miran looks like a guest Letterman would have had on with Trump and Blagojevich; then the things on their heads could all do a WWE fight on stage during the commercial break.

    That Photoshop job is so bad that Adobe is trying to find out who did it to revoke their software license — or, maybe, blame it on somebody else’s software and start suing everyone who says it’s Photoshop.

  6. denise says:

    E&S: Trying to conjure Joan of Arc?

    Bunny: Weird face and hands. Not to mention the bunny…

    Miran: Hulk transformation gone wrong

    P&PD: The background and font/vine colors would make a pretty package for pastries.

  7. Susan/DC says:

    So, are the pasties of the title the food or the nipple covers used by strippers? Enquiring minds want to know.

  8. HeatherS says:

    I read the last title as “Pastries and Poor Decisions” and I was like “You know what, yes.” I can relate to eating too many pastries in one sitting and then regretting my life choices.

  9. Babs says:

    I hope this is Molly’s “Third Arm” cover — where she gets to go around asking “ah, but have you seen the guy with no eyes?”

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