Katie’s Crossroads (The 7th Wave): A Christian Romance (Solomon’s Woods Book 2)

Katie’s Crossroads (The 7th Wave): A Christian Romance (Solomon’s Woods Book 2)

Included mostly because of the oddly specific wall art.

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Battra
Battra
7 years ago

Is she trying to will him away or have sex with her?

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
7 years ago

to fit her expression, a script –
exasperated voiceover: How many times do I have to remind him, not to park his butt on my desk, lest a client show up early?

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
7 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

more from the script:
Hunter: Why the long face?
Katie: I’m played by Sarah Jessica Parker.

Grackle
Grackle
7 years ago

Is the picture a reference to the guy’s name being Hunter or something…? Also:

“Hunter Campbell’s marriage ended when his wife deserted him for another man. He’s attracted to Katie Hardinger, and his mom and little boys are too.”

Wow, is THAT what “Christian Romance” means??

Lydia
Lydia
7 years ago
Reply to  Grackle

Ew! An incestuous, pedophilic, multi generational multi partner relationship? No wonder she looks nauseated.

Plus I can’t help noticing that the bridge in the picture is too thin at the top to hold the weight of all those horses.

Hitch
7 years ago
Reply to  Lydia

That description is hilarious. Grackle and Lydia should write Description Critiques. Wait…I see it now…DescriptionAndBlurbCritics.com! A brainchild is born!

Lydia
Lydia
7 years ago
Reply to  Hitch

I would go there. Maybe call it Covercopy Critiques.

RK
RK
7 years ago
Reply to  Grackle

No more than

Adam Tyler was used to setting the rules and being a bachelor—then he became a single dad. His little girl had him wrapped around her finger. He knew he needed a nanny, but a wife?

means that Adam Tyler was thinking “Really? I should marry my own little 6-year-old? I’d never even remotely considered that a possibility, but now that I think of it…”

Of course, if that was the only line of the description you read, you could be forgiven for thinking that was what it meant; just as you could be forgiven for wondering how it could be legal to sell this book at all after looking at the cover. (Fun fact: I bought a copy of this book just to freak people out by saying “Yes, that book does exist, and I can prove it!”)

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
7 years ago
Reply to  RK

I believe that stock art photo (tag: just a daddy and his girl) and the cover that used it (Vivian Leiber, “One Sexy Daddy”, Harlequin American Romance) were used as examples of false flagging or “what were they thinking” unintentionally including elements that appeared to be “code” or “tells” for something else. So both cover artists and blurb writers need independent review to avoid false flagging.

Hitch
7 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

It’s just awful in every possible false, or real, flag. Didn’t anyone at Harlequin LOOK at the damned book? (I nearly put quotation marks around “look” or “anyone” or….but then I figured, newcomers that read these later mightn’t get the in-joke….)

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
7 years ago

Photobombing fox!
(Naw, foxie’s just hiding under the bridge from the hunters.)

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
7 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

(Or, foxie is springing from Katie’s head.)
In the background painting we have hunters and fox.
In the foreground we have Hunter and fox (Katie).
This is one complicated cover.
Deciphering it is like peeling layers from an onion.

RK
RK
7 years ago

Important note: if you have to say “A Christian Romance” right there on the cover, your book’s a guaranteed failure already.