Friday, May 28, 2010

Romance Novel Cover of the Day


Kim Lenox's "Darker Than Night: A Novel of the Shadow Guard" (above)

I have so many questions, I don't even know where to begin.

First of all, why are the romance cover guys always holding swords of some kind? I never see any with swooning women or heaving bosoms, but I found like four covers of guys holding big, long, thick swords... Oh, I get it. Secondly, can I ask what the hell is going on on these "dangerous streets" and can I stand out on them like a dime store hooker and wait for this man to come rescue me? Thirdly, is that a bed and breakfast over yonder because I am beat and would love a nap and some grits? Lastly, what's up crow?

This is what happens when you need to get a book on how to teach you Excel for a temping job and get distracted. By the way, I took like 10 pictures of book covers so this has now become a feature...

p.s. my blog is slowly turning into a tome of how I encounter attractive men in my everyday life. Anyone have a problem with this? Anyone else think I'm in heat?

3 comments:

C. Paul Keller said...

I like this new feature. It reminds me of when I was eleven and would paw through all the romance novels at the Salvation Army Thrift Store and couldn't understand exactly why the half naked men on the cover got me all excited. My mom just thought I was searching for Nancy Drew titles for my collection. I was a very gay child.

They used to to have heaving bosoms on the cover, but I think the romance novel industry no longer approves of objectify women like that. Thank God they haven't stop objectify men!

Dani said...

All I see is nipple. And this pleases me.

Junior said...

I used to do that with "exercise magazines" at tag sales my mom would bring me too, Paul! It's like they wanted us to be gay!

Yeah, the Harlequinn books still have heaving bosoms but clearly the other publishers have realized that women just want to see hot guys on these covers more than ladies!

Dani... NIPPLE! Gotcha!