Just HAVE to get it off my chest. (And this is not just mm, but I have been reading 90% mm the last year, so... I notice it there most)

Someone somewhere sighed loudly about the decapitated male torsos, and to a point I would agree, but that is actually preferable to a cover depicting the main character.... looking nothing than the description of said character inside the book!

I just finished reading ZA Maxfield's ( I have loved everything of hers I have read so far) "Crossing Borders".

I really really loved this book!

But...

Both versions of the cover shows a short haired red headed young guy. (one with puppy fat, one not.. I read the first one)

So you have this image of slightly chubby short haired redhead... only to have to start adjusting the image you have in your head... when he fastens his hair... hide behind his hair... and his hair fall around them as they.... you get the image, right?

Rather chop of their heads, and let one built up the character in your imagination.





Call me the Red Queed..... " .. off with their heads!"

[Weelee]

Bahahahaaha I so totally agree with you .... besides we aint interested in their top half lmao


This is what you are left with

You just gave me my first smile for the day. Thanks Lee!

(Now my over active imagination is trying to put a Benny Hill type as the romantic lead... stop.. stop!!)

[wish2read247]

While it drive me nuts to have a book without its proper cover sometimes I feel it is better than having one that is totally...well wrong. I've noticed quote a few of the shifter covers having hot, young looking bods on them no matter if the description states that one of them isn't cut and in shape or one is supposed to be much smaller than the other. I guess as I get into it my mental picture overtakes whatever is stuck on the cover, it just saddens me to see that the description the author spent time fleshing out in the book seems to be disregarded at times.
Hope this makes sense. Lol
Sandy

I honestly hate book covers that have people on them in general. I prefer symbolic items, or a person from behind, so I can dray conclusions of what they look like from the book.

I absolutely hate it when a book has a really ugly cover. It really puts me off reading this book even though with ebooks I don't have to look at them so much but somehow I think an ugly cover equals badly written. I especially hate the bad manga computer drawings. I always think: couldn't you have bought a nice stock photo of a sunset or something like that, just about anything would have been better. One book cover I noticed lately is Clean by Mia Kerick when I first saw it I thought it doesn't matter how good the book is I cannot get over this ugly cover.

[Weelee]

Now all we need is for a cover "artiste extraordinaire" to actually read this and take note ....
All opinions expressed here ARE SO TRUE ....

even though not MM/LGBT content: I love the Lincoln Rhyme books ...but absolutely loath the movies of the books ... Denziel Washington is NOT how the first book originally portrayed him .... He should be a tragic, swarthy, Handsome, Italian descent looking guy ...grrr ...one of the Baldwin boys should have played him lmao

I also started to read quite a lot of mm for the past year or so and I've noticed that the same models are used over and over again argh :")