Fail, Night Shade Books. Fail. I'm not very familiar with your company, but I'd had vaguely positive impressions of it. I guess I was mistaken. You know, what with the whitewashing (really inexplicable, considering your target audience), and the just plain bad cover design.

(For the unfamiliar: I am referring to the whitewashed, badly designed cover for Catherynne Valente's upcoming novel The Habitation of the Blessed - A Dirge for Prester John.)

I didn't know it was whitewashed until I saw people saying such, b/c I knew pretty much nothing about the Prester John legends until I uh, wiki'd it. As for my first reactions not knowing: I don't find the illustration unattractive, as some people have, although I didn't think it was gorgeous or anything. I did find it to be in the "adventuring mage-like man with sexy, half-naked, exoticized lady attached for titillation" vein, which, yeah, not so appealing, even not knowing about the whitewashing. But the overall design? Pretty awful. I mean, that title font is very unreadable, and yeah, award-winning author name pull: tiny text is doin' it rong.

I don't know who you're trying to sell to, Night Shade, but you apparently forgot the core target audience for this book ain't too cool with these kinds of shenanigans.

ETA: Well that didn't take long. Night Shade has responded to the complaints coming their way, and are going to do a redesign of the book cover. Would have been nice if they'd listened to the author's obviously sensible input to begin with, but better late than never, and to their credit that was pretty quick.

Sookie. Honey. You are crazy as a moonbat.

I'm gonna be honest here and say I kinda like the idea of Sookie/Eric (it is certainly more interesting than Sookie/Bill), but nevertheless, if she actually goes for something with him, SHE IS COMPLETELY FUCKED IN THE HEAD.

Aside from that. Eric. Goddamn he is hilarious. HEE-LAR-EE-US. I have such a thing for flamboyant assholes. First season he was kinda dull, but from the beginning of the second season on he like. Totally rocketed up to my second favorite slot? Idek. He and Pam make the best evil duo ever.




Also: Jesus. Jesus, I am very dubious of your sudden about face. How do you go from OMG YOU DEAL V? THAT SHIT RUINS LIVES :<<< to OMG I WANNA DO V WIT UUUUUU BB ♥♥♥ in such a short span of time? I am also dubious of Jesus's eerie habit of knowing things. If he turns out to be evil or dying in some freaky ritual because he's ~POWERFUL~ ala last season, I will not be pleased. :( (Otoh, I do appreciate this OMG Layfayette maybe has ~POWERS~ himself subplot.

Also, Jesus, I would appreciate it if you would develop a little more personality b/c seriously, the make outs with Lafayette are totally hot but all you've really got going for you personally is your ~spooky intuition~. I do however approve of your name (and the fact that Lafayette's mom calls you GEE-ZUS instead of HAY-SOOS), because I get to squeal GEE-ZUS IS A FAGGGGG in gleeful tones whenever you and Lafayette make out.

("I'll be damned. Maybe God loves fags." AHAHAHA THIS WOMAN.)

I would appreciate a little more AIDS-BURGER style bad-ass queening it up from Lafayette though, 'cause man is hilarious, and drama hasn't given him much time to do his thing lately. I mean, he's amazingly awesome under duress too and all, but a little variety?


OH AND HAVE I MENTIONED HOW MUCH I LOVE SOPHIE ANN

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST LESBIAN VAMPIRE QUEEN WHO LIKES WATCHING DUDES DO IT

SHE IS SO META

I LOVE HER SO MUCH OMG

YAHTZEE! (NSFW, CONTAINS... YAHTZEE)

"Ugh, this alpha male posturing. You two should really just fuck each other and get it over with. I could watch. :3" OMG WOMAN MAKE LOVE TO ME

DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY