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A Madness of Angels, by Kate Griffin
Jan. 14th, 2010 11:19 pmWow, I'm reviewing a book I actually like! Who'd have imagined it?
( cut for length; no spoilers )
I wanted to conclude, above the cut, with a word about the book's appearance. Basically, it looks awful. The cover image is cheap, generic and in some ways misleading, the typeface on the dust jacket (especially the blurbs on the back cover and flaps) looks amateurish, and the blurb text is about as lame and unappealing as I've ever seen. If I hadn't looked inside the book and seen that Griffin can write a good sentence, I wouldn't have bothered with it. And I was at the library, where getting a bad book would cost me nothing but some irritation. Orbit's packaging has done this novel a huge disservice, and one reason I've reviewed it here is to encourage you, if you see a copy somewhere, to give it a chance and not judge it by its craptastic, e-publisher-looking cover.
( cut for length; no spoilers )
I wanted to conclude, above the cut, with a word about the book's appearance. Basically, it looks awful. The cover image is cheap, generic and in some ways misleading, the typeface on the dust jacket (especially the blurbs on the back cover and flaps) looks amateurish, and the blurb text is about as lame and unappealing as I've ever seen. If I hadn't looked inside the book and seen that Griffin can write a good sentence, I wouldn't have bothered with it. And I was at the library, where getting a bad book would cost me nothing but some irritation. Orbit's packaging has done this novel a huge disservice, and one reason I've reviewed it here is to encourage you, if you see a copy somewhere, to give it a chance and not judge it by its craptastic, e-publisher-looking cover.
