Blood Curse

June 11, 2014

Who decided this was the perfect cover for a vampire novel full of violence and torture? Who?

BOO-ring WTF

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Kris

10 years ago

He loves me, he loves me not… How utterly adorable.

LydiaFCG

10 years ago

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He bites me, he bites me not?

10 years ago

You *know* a cover’s bad when you see just the top of it on this site and think “This actually looks pretty good!” I was so scared to scroll down.

Sirona

10 years ago

Aww it’s adorable! And SO NOT bloodthirsty. But it is very, very, very…red.

@AJ Same thing happened to me recently. Made me want to cry–so much potential gone so wrong.

Rob

10 years ago

Chop off the top half (i.e. “Blood”) and it’d make a GREAT 90’s techno album cover from an indie label.

As a book cover, however? Uh….

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