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The cover model is pigeon-toed. Or is she supposed to be eight months pregnant? (With those shoes, I hope not.)

Wow! I think I’ll go out and buy that book! Not.

Charlene, I was thinking the same damn thing. The cover should have been beautiful, shoes are gorgeous, perfect colors, but why are her toes facing out? It looks like her knees are bent and about 18 to 20 inches apart!

Also, if you notice, the shoes are in reality too narrow for her feet. The ball of her foot is spilling out more than it should over the sole.

They should have taken that picture from a slight angle instead of having the model point her toes out.

This of course doesn’t speak to the book itself, but had I been the writer I would not have been happy.

oh, I just thought it was a picture of a drag queens feet…

Just realised I need to clarify - ‘it’ is walking up the stairs like she has a pair of balls hanging low. You sure there wasn’t a jail conversion later in the story?

Seriously, if you scanned this book and did a CTRL-F for “bad choices,” I’m betting you’d find at least four uses of the pair in each chapter.

I read a book once that said the heroine was smart over and over.  It got so bad I wanted to play the drinking game I did as a kid. Every time someone in the book said it I could take a drink. When someone said how big her brain was I closed the book and walked away.

How did it ever get published?  Why did it get published?

I asked myself that about the Sherrilyn Kenyon fiasco I just read.  I asked myself so often in the course of the book that I started thinking I was just being monkeysack nitpicky.  So I finally sat down and wrote out all the reasons why I kept asking myself how/why the book got published.  My conclusion:  I wasn’t being monkeysack nitpicky; the book shouldn’t have been published.  Still don’t know how it did get published, but the exercise was therapeutic.

My point?  Uh, I think it’s that writing and/or reading reviews help us work out our anger, frustration and confusion over all the crappy books out there, some of which we’re foolish enough to spend our money on.  Or something like that. (I only spent a dime for Kenyon’s dud but it was nine cents too much.)

I looked at the cover and my first thought was—the heroine is a drag-queen. 

Oh, dear.  Who commissions this stuff and when did they last get their eyes tested?

I keep wondering if the “bad choices” refrain has anything to do with the author’s career as a clinical social worker. I have the greatest respect for people who improve their lives and for those who help them, but sometimes you have to let the past go and stop harping on your “bad choices” in the past. We all make bad choices, after all.

And here I was thinking that the cover model was an inexperienced drag queen.  A man walking slew footed in high heels

If she was found innocent of crimes after however many years she wouldn’t have had to go a halfway house.  She would have just gone home.  Didn’t the author watch any of the news reports about people being released after being found innocent years later?

And, yeah, I totally think it’s a dude on the cover ‘cause no chick walks that way up the stairs even if they are trying to get a pic of the shoes.

I dunno, I see a lot of women walk that way up the stairs in the subway. A lot of the stairs in the subway are approaching 100 years old, and have the narrow treads that were considered more efficent or something back in those days.

Watching other women commute in impractical shoes is a source of much amusement to me.

Maybe it’s only because I watched “Kinky Boots” yesterday and it’s fresh in my mind, but I totally ditto all the drag queen comments about the cover art.

The shoes are nice though and I like the color combo.

Maybe those are narrow stairs?  I don’t know...stretching here.

I can see walking like that in real life, especially in places like subways where the treads are kept short so they don’t take up space.

But this is the cover of a book. It could have been done better.

Oh I’m so relieved!  I was looking at this one at B&N this morning but didn’t get it.  I’m so glad to find out it sucks.  I’d have hated to throw my money away.

I never read the book and it probably does suck, but I like the shoes, even if they do look like they’re being worn by a pregnant lady or a man who isn’t that experienced in wearing women’s clothes or if the shoes are too small. I just love the shoes.

But sadly, the heels are too high. Maybe the heroine can’t walk in them (that’s how I walk when I wear shoes with heels like that). If the heel were thicker, I’d so scour the ends of the Earth to get them (and an outfit to go with it)

I was going to make a witty remark about the cover and the weird positioning of the shoes, like a drag queen, but everybody beat me to it.

Sigh…

I suppose it’s a problem if whenever I can’t remember the exact name of a book, I just substitute the word “Savage” for the word I can’t remember? This book became “Savage Strut” about halfway through the review.