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Judge a Book by Its Cover #4
Romance Week
Drew McEleney
You asked for it and I’m here to deliver. It is Romance Week® here at the “Judge a Book by Its Cover” corner
- a first in our award winning series of reviews. Even better this is our first twofer, that’s right this review
will be double the pleasure and double the fun and Doublemint gum (blast you Wrigley’s marketing department!!)
Let’s get started.
First on the docket is Night Bites by Nina Bangs. Before I go any further can we first agree that
Ms. Bangs is in fact using a pseudonym rather than her own name? I don’t know about you but I get the distinct
feeling that Nina has or is currently working in the adult film industry. The front cover does tell the prospective
reader that the author is a USA Today Bestselling Author so that is good enough for me to continue looking
over the book but they will have to try harder to get me to actually open the thing.
The cover of this sultry little paperback has a softly lit ‘dual image’ consisting of a young man in some type
of thespian dress shirt standing in a graveyard. We are to assume that it is spookey because there are dead trees
all around and a full moon in the upper right corner. The second picture is the obligatory hot chick with her eyes
closed and head tilted back – a pose of extreme pleasure on her face. Since this book is titled Night Bites
it is appropriate that she has a little fang showing in the picture. In the end I have to recommend this novel because
it involves the four essential elements of a good story – not character development, conflict, climax, and resolution
but rather an attractive woman, a vampire or other supernatural creature, an orphan and a graveyard.
On to the next book! Our final selection of this installment of “Judge a Book” is Elegy for a Lost Star
(A new adventure in The Symphony of Ages) by Eliszabeth Haydon. First of all I am a college educated young professional
and I am not ashamed to admit that I have no earthly idea what the word “elegy” means so I will just assume it means
passionate kiss.
While this book is also straight out of the romance section of my local Borders Books and Music store it has a
decidedly Sci-Fi nerdy vibe going on. Now you may be thinking “how can he know this without reading the book?” but
that is a foolish question for I write this column for a living and can tell these things almost immediately. The other
reason is the cover features a drawing of a Xena warrior princess looking chick holding a baby in the crook of her left
arm and a glowing light-sabresque sword in her right hand. She seems to be in some type of enchanted forest and by the
way there is a fire breathing dragon in the background. So sign me up for this one too – I mean how can a book with a
baby, light saber, AND dragon possibly be a flop? Plus I have read the first 11 adventures in “The Symphony of Ages”
dodecagy.
If you have any suggestions for other “Judge a Book by its Cover” candidates or if you are an aspiring romance
novelist looking for plot tips send me a fine black stallion and a strapping young … er … email at
drew@xtremewailing.com.
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