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The Good The Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?
Welcome to the last The Good-The-Bad-and-the-Are-You-Kidding-Me? post of the year! Since 2011 will soon be over, it’s time to look back on our favorite covers of 2011. So here we are, we’ll give you our Top 3!! It wasn’t easy to just choose 3 and I’m pretty sure if you’d asked again in a week I’d have a different selection! =P We hope you’ll tell us your Top 3 too! *g* Also we’re curious to know what you’d like publishers to change for 2012, more half-naked men? Less headless models? Tell us what you’d want to see changed. =) Our 3 favorite covers of 2011:
Caro’s Top 3:
Caro: I think the cover of The Perfect Play speaks for itself. *g* NOM. It’s one of these books I read BECAUSE of the cover LOL It doesn’t hurt that the book was great! I adore the Judith James cover, It’s different from usual historical romances. I just love it. It’s so sensual and for once, not too cheesy *g*. The model on the cover of Kisri is sooo sparkly (in a non virgin vampire way) and pretty. I love it even though I keep wondering if the guy behind her can see her butt crack! LOL
Susi’s Top 3:
Caro:Well I like the cover of the Gena book but something’s…off. Don’t get me wrong he has a freaking awesome body but the weird hair looks…well weird. LOL Still nice though. I ain’t completely sold by the cover of Grave Dance. It’s nice but altogether easily forgettable. I think it’s because of the colors. Just meh. Awesome cover for Archangel’s Consort. I love it everything about it!
What’s your TOP 3 covers for 2011? If you feel like it you can also give us your Top 3 of the Worst covers of 2011? If you could choose a good resolution for publishers about their new 2012 covers what would you want it to be? Any theme on covers you’re sick of? Something you’d want to see more?
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I love your picks girls! I don’t really have favourite covers, I admire them and then I forget them, shrug. But I really would like more heads on the covers, but I will always enjoy half naked men, preferably with a tattoo and/or a sword …
Yum…these Play by Play covers have a special place on my shelves. *g*
Ah swords! Yes those always go well with half naked men *g*
I want to see heads! No freaking bodies chopped at the shoulders and halfheads. i just want faces.
As for my pick…hm, must think about that
I’m with you on the heads thing. It’s kind of creepy to chop of the head, though in some cases I find myself not minding in most I’d like to see a head along with the body 🙂
Well i usually don’t like that either BUT when the face is all wrong in my eyes I would rather not see it.
Can’t wait to hear what you come up with. 😉
I have to agree with Susi here! I’d rather have a headless body than a face that won’t be right for the character. And it leaves more to the imagination to gloss over the details *g*
All those half naked dudes don’t do it for me. So if those kind of covers disappeared I wouldn’t shed a tear.
The Guild Hunter covers are indeed cool, but my favorite covers are still those by Daniel dos Santos.
Okay true. Santos rocks too. Gah, see, already want to change my choice. >.<
For me it depends on the cover. I’ll agree with you that some covers with half naked bodies are so bland and all the same it’s easy to forget them. I need a little something more to make it stick in my mind
I’m sick of looking at women’s backs. There should be a resolution to find a more creative pose for book cover heroines rather than just, “Here’s a girl standing there with her back turned.”
I don’t know what my top picks would be, but I agree that the cover for Archangel’s Consort is awesome!
i so know what you mean.
Yeah I agree . BUT on the other end I can’t get tired of covers with the hero’s back showing. *g* Nom nom
I can’t argue with your choices. You both chose some nice ones.
My three favorites of 2011 are Archangel’s Blade (Nalini Singh,) What I Did for a Duke (Julie Anne Long,) and First Grave on the Right (Darynda Jones.)
Ohhhh I forgot What I did for a Duke!!!!! Damn it could very well be my #4.
Ok, but then Susi gets to have a #4, too!
Mouhahahaah or let’s not tell her and I can grab her 4th spot for one of mine LOL 😉
I’m tired of the headless torso’s…I really wish publishers would stop doing that. It reminds me of a horror movie. lol I want to see a face…I love eyes.
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I love eyes too 🙁 but the models aren’t often right enough to pull it off. I don’t know. I’m weird like that LOL.