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Date: 2020-05-05 02:47 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2020-05-05 03:12 am (UTC)In all honesty, if the relationship was described as abusive or something that was imprisoning Bella, I actually would have found it fairly decent. But right now, it's just there just cause.
Even with that in mind, the cover is boring. It feels rather bare-bone to me, and there's nothing about it that draws my eye. I wished they settled on something that was more dynamic, or something that was more telling of the book.
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Date: 2020-05-05 03:28 am (UTC)Yeah, the Bible doesn't specify the type of fruit as far as I know. Apparently the story is a bit different in some of the older Jewish texts, but I'd have to ask for more detail because it was a while ago.
It's just as it is with Paolini - it could have been good if the author had bothered to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
Yeah. It's boring and ugly.
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Date: 2020-05-06 01:24 am (UTC)https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+11%3A12-25
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+21%3A18-22
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Date: 2020-05-05 06:28 am (UTC)EDIT: Ah, I see I'm late to the party here. THat's what happens when you open a page the night before and don't refresh it.
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Date: 2020-05-05 08:58 pm (UTC)*Surprised pikachu face*
So, uh...do you think her writing improved at all? Or does it still give the impression of a disinterested weather forecaster giving the weekly weather?
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Date: 2020-05-05 05:29 am (UTC)Maybe it's just me, but the moment an author is referred to as a "scribe" by some journalist I start rolling my eyes.
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Date: 2020-05-05 07:23 am (UTC)It reminds me of a Charlie Pickering stand-up routine about foreign correspondent journalists. "... the diseased fruit of war is proving more and more difficult to turn into the jam of peace"
If ever there was a diseased fruit, that looks like it.
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Date: 2020-05-05 07:32 am (UTC)Seems fitting, really, since diseased minds are very much a feature of this horrible series.
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Date: 2020-05-06 01:30 am (UTC)We can see two eye sockets, then the line of pomegranates represents tears - or a nose and the drips represent tears or blood. They have pulled apart that top section, which may suggest eyebrows? I don't know.
I just hate that stem on top of the pomegranate. This image is so disturbing. Why would they put an image on the cover that would actively make people hesitate to pick up the book?
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Date: 2020-05-06 01:38 am (UTC)You know what that means? It means the publisher either has no faith in the project, or it means they're so sure it's going to sell a zillion copies that they just didn't bother. It also means they likely skimped on editing as well. Either way not a good sign at all.
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Date: 2020-05-07 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-05-06 01:49 pm (UTC)Probably because whoever decided on the image read the series and thought it was a horror series. I've read through most of Mervin's spork on Das Sporking, and there's enough stuff in Meyer's stuff that have a better fit for horror than romance. Everything from Jacob's assault on Bella to Renesme's birth... Imagine, if the Pomegranate is the series, then the seeds are every morally wrong scene, and the oozing juice the rancid logic that keeps it all together.
Rotting, smashed, and leaking. A perfect metaphor of an image if I've ever seen one.
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Date: 2024-12-20 06:46 pm (UTC)Non-broken cover: https://bookstacked.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/midnight-sun-cover.jpg