Hmmmm....

Have you ever received a book that you requested and now can't remember why you wanted it to begin with?

I'm a huge fan of BookMooch, where members happily trade books with each other for nothing more than the cost of postage. Today I received a book in the mail that clearly I wanted (it was recommended somewhere by someone at some point), but the cover tells me it might not be my cup of tea. Here, I scanned it for you:



Now you probably can't make out the blurb above the title, so I'll be generous enough to repeat it for you: Her magnificent novel of an age when love ruled kings. Hmmmm.

But wait...there's more on the back cover:

SIR MARK D'ARCHIER
An adventurer from a shattered family, he wielded his shining sword in the service of high destiny.


Now I may be way off base here, but I'm-a-thinkin' the aforementioned sword might be a double-entendre.



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  1. AnonymousOctober 14, 2008 at 4:13 PM

    Hmmmmmmmmm is right. Doesn't look like my kind of book either.

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  2. MicheleOctober 14, 2008 at 5:58 PM

    And I can't for the life of me remember why it was on my BookMooch wishlist. I know darned well it came from a recommendation (maybe from Amazon, not sure). I'm hoping whoever recommended it will recognize the title here and remind me why it was supposed to be good.

    Now you just know I've got to read and review it now that it's here.

    Careful what you say or I may just send it to you next --- ha ha.

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  3. AlyceOctober 14, 2008 at 6:47 PM

    Ha! Laughing over here! That is so funny.

    I remember in high school a friend and I used to go to the public library and laugh at books like that. Ok, so we were geeks! Not that big of a surprise, right? :)

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  4. MicheleOctober 14, 2008 at 6:59 PM

    I found where I got the recommendation....off of the Richard III Society's website. It's actually a sequel to another, so I can't read it anyway until I get my grubby paws on the original. Go figure.

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  5. Nicola O.October 14, 2008 at 10:15 PM

    bahaha! Love your commentary... And hey, maybe it's a good book with really bad cover art/blurb writing...

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  6. LindaOctober 15, 2008 at 5:02 AM

    It's on my wish list also, and my note to myself just says "Perkin Warbeck" -- the author is one I've read before.

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  7. Passages to the PastOctober 15, 2008 at 5:27 AM

    Is that what they called it back then, "shining sword"?

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  8. DaphneOctober 15, 2008 at 7:47 AM

    The author wrote a series of books about the Wars of the Roses/early Tudor period. They were republished at some point with these very cheesy looking romance covers but they do not necessarily represent the actual nature of the books. I've read one of them - We Speak No Treason which is about Richard III. I believe The Courts of Illusion is about the reign of Henry VII.

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  9. FyreflyOctober 15, 2008 at 2:05 PM

    At least she's got the right number of hands.

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  10. AnonymousOctober 17, 2008 at 5:35 PM

    I know we're not supposed to judge books by their covers, but I can't help it! Wielding his sword, indeed! :)

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Fire away!

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