Title: Bullet Proof
Author: Amber Dean
Cover artist: Uncredited
Yours for: $15
Best things about this cover:
- Wow, turns out you can do A Lot with a fairly monochromatic palette. This is fantastic.
- For a simple cover, it's amazingly suspenseful. Great use of light, especially on her face. Her face is the key—the craning around and the look of wide-eyed horror really sell the idea that something terrible is just on its way, just out of view.
- The creepiness of the bondage is amplified ten-fold by the simple, naked mattress. How can a cover be so elegant and so sleazy at the same time?
Best things about this back cover:
- I still hate this logo. It does not look like "CRIME." It looks a poorly executed fertility statue.
- "Virginia Kirkus calls it 'non-stop'"—that made me LOL: "Seriously, it wouldn't stop. I as like 'Stop! Why won't this story stop!?' But it just kept going!"
- "Readable!"—these just get better and better. "… in that it was made out of recognizable words, which were arranged in vaguely grammatical patterns…"
Page 123~
"It was their job, Hallie. Police have to learn how to destroy human dignity, or they'd never break through the really calloused, the hardened."
I'm just gonna leave that there.
~RP
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2 comments:
The front cover is basically the forerunner of today's digitally lit movies where everything is orange or teal.
Testing.
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