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 Theeee Spacepope This topic is hillarious. I agree completely on the Honor Harrington novels, they may have wandered off in the later ones but the first few are really good, while the covers are just plain horrendous.
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So this one is partially making fun of the covers partially recommending the book. This was the original cover of the paperback (which I kind of like - it fits the story):  This was the second iteration (yuck):  This is what they replaced it with when they made it into a compilation:  *shudders* I don't know why they just kept making the covers worse instead of reusing the original which wasn't half bad. As for the book itself, it's one of my top three. The series as a whole is pretty good, but this book is exactly what a fantasy novel should be and stands well on it's own if you don't want to read the other 4 books. The setting is incredible, so much so that I think it would make a great video game. The characters are well defined and there's some serious badassery. The story is fun without being silly, and the back story of the world and Jame herself is interesting. Most importantly I think Jamethiel is probably the best female protagonist in any fantasy novel I've read. What makes this book awesome? Hundreds of weird gods, a city that's almost a character in itself, a badass female protagonist who goes from being a confused lost naive girl who can't recall her (rather dark) past to a parkour master thief with a nasty habit of slicing people's throats with her retractable claws when she gets angry. Oh, and she unintentionally sucks people's souls too. Sadly it's very obscure and the books go in and out of print on a regular basis.
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Jan 27, 2011 15:54
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