Title: The Cruel Dawn
Author: Alfred Viazzi
Cover artist: Uncredited
Yours for: $14
Best things about this cover:
- "I said, I'm gonna wash that gray right out of your hair! Hold still!"
- "Demon, I cast thee out!"
- Gloria liked to end every dance with a vicious take-down.
- Normally I find things like garter belts and cleavage quite hot, but between the dowdiness of that nightgown and the oddly porcelain quality of this woman's skin, this lady just isn't doing it for me. Also, maybe it's just me, but she seems a bit standoffish.
Best things about this back cover:
- Her body is blonde? That's more info than you usually get in an opening description.
- Oooh, a "lusty bordello." Not one of those Puritanical bordellos you see from time to time. Those are sooo annoying.
- A decent, non-wanton actress would, of course, have taken the time to get properly dressed before shielding a man with her body. Pfft. Whore.
Page 123~
The last thing he remembered was the thud and pain of a boot kicking hard into the side of his head.
~RP
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5 comments:
There's two things I see that make the woman on the cover somewhat off-putting. First is that here right breast should not be in that position. There's nothing holding it in place. Breasts move and that one should have slipped out of the nightgown. Obviously there's something artificial about them or her.
Second, her mouth. There's something about it that screams "savage vampire about to feed".
It's a book of proven merit, dammit!
The back cover is all talking about a hot blonde (body) playing a dangerous game with Italian men in Naples, yet the illustration looks like a raven-haired lady being ravished by an Irishman. You can see his whiskey glass!
"Second, her mouth. There's something about it that screams "savage vampire about to feed"."
Yep, it looks a Fifties version of True Blook.
What you all forget to mention is that his name is Fulvio. Fulvio!
"The last thing he remembered was the thud and pain of a boot kicking hard into the side of his head."
...until he heard his yoga instructor screeching, "How many times've I got'o remind y'u - ALWAYS take your boots off FIRST!"
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