Oh, Amazon. I'm Insulted.

[redbrunja]

 You're aware of my buying history; do you actually think I am unaware of the Anita Blake series?

Secondly, the reprint cover of the first book?





Is a blatant rip-off of the reprinted Dead Until Dark cover as wells as the True Blood credits. And it doesn't even make sense for Anita Blake to be smoking.

Fail.

Comments

[superduperotaku.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I have to admit I read the first book in the series. It was a dollar at a garage sale. How could I resist. Now they have graphic novels of the series which I found my roommate reading. I guess the book was ok, it was entertaining, but it certainly didn't show vampires in any new and exciting way. At least they didn't sparkle.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I have read a large number of the AB books, actually. The first couple were quite enjoyable, even if nowhere are they writing the vampire mythos.

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

I keep planning to get back into that series. Anita lost me in The Laughing Corpse when she made SUCH a big deal about her Christianity vs. the evil Voodoo priestess. It wouldn't have bothered me as much if I didn't get that underlying vibe that religion had ANYTHING to do with the fact that she was raising zombies and killing people.

That being said, the new Cover is painfully lame.

[nimblnymph.livejournal.com]

Do yourself a favor, qualapec, and DON'T get back into the series. Dead serious about that. If you think that's bad, there's shit in the later books that'll make you want to bludgeon yourself to death.

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks for the Mr. Yuk sticker :)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't get back into the series; they stories devolve into badly done porn and lose all trace of a plot.

[nimblnymph.livejournal.com]

God, I love you right now.

That drives me CRAZY about Amazon sometimes. It's like, "Umm... yeah, I know I'd probably like that. BECAUSE I BOUGHT IT LAST WEEK!"

Nice concept, but sometimes it fails in execution.

And *head desk* to the blatant rip-offery. Good lord, as if I needed anything ELSE to snark about for that series.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Typically, that feature of amazon works will for me. But this time it just massively failed.

Good lord, as if I needed anything ELSE to snark about for that series.

You know you're grateful. ^_^

[a-lifestyle.livejournal.com]

And also Megan's Jennifer's Body:

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

True. But Jennifer's body has the advantage of being a.) hot and b.) on topic

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I know! It was a really bad choice for a cover design.

[shiegra.livejournal.com]

Not that it makes sense for Sookie Stackhouse to be smoking either, but hey. Logic: it does not seem to work for the people that design covers.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Well, the actual book cover just has a feminine vampire mouth, which is vague enough to work for that series, and then in the credits none of the cast members are shown, and a sexy female smoking mouth makes sense.