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Squirm: virgin captive of the billionaire biker tentacle monster (The Squirm Files Book 1)
When your subtitle sounds like a bad manga translation…
Squirm: virgin captive of the billionaire biker tentacle monster (The Squirm Files Book 1)
When your subtitle sounds like a bad manga translation…
Well, to be fair, it’s apparently a satire. Still…
Oh god. And to think we were just talking about tentacles.
But hilarious as it is (or disturbing), I don’t think it deserves to be here. It’s in it’s own admission a parody: “A parody of everything great and weird in erotic romance that could be stuffed into one book without it exploding.” The cover is bad at places, yeah, but it looks more like somebody who knew what he/she was doing deliberately tried to make it bad. But it’s still a class above your average monster erotica cover, IMHO.
I guess I’m getting so I don’t know what’s a parody anymore…
Clue: the Virgin is in shiny black leather looking armed and dangerous. (But then again that may be how she kept her virginity.)
And her name is Virginia. Virginia the virgin.
Where does a tentacle monster earn money?
If the squid of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” and the octopus of “It Came From Beneath the Sea” had good contracts, they would be swimming in money from residual checks given the number of TV re-runs and VHS and DVD releases.
Thank you. I was really hoping this would be answered in such a fashion! 😀
+1 Awesome Naaman point for you!
This is turning into a blog of weird porn.
Weird porn does generate a lot of lousy book covers, but frankly
(a) it’s the slap-dash nature of the genre (rarely do you find any writing at the level of Anais Nin) so slap-dash cover art should be no surprise, and
(b) genre practitioners just don’t care about the quality of their cover art, so criticism is futile: they will not appear in the “new covers” feature with improved art.
By the way, searching through the NY Times bestseller lists, I can’t find Cari Silverwood’s name anywhere.
Part of the parody I suppose.
Search for what I see: BESTS LING AUTHOR
It’s not just a biker tentacle monster, it’s a billionaire biker tentacle monster; just in case anybody had any doubts whether yet another author was looking to ride the inexplicably successful hack writer E.L. James’ threadbare coattails.
So, in absence of 50 Shades of Grey we would have been treated to Squirm: captive of the biker tentacle monster? Sounds plausible.
Wow. I bet this title has NEVER been thought of before.
Definitely doesn’t belong here. This is a parody along the lines of “Bored of the Rings” (the old Harvard Lampoon send-up of Tolkien). I bought it for my wife and she thought it was a hoot. There’s also a sequel.