Oh My Effing God… Number 2001
Sunday, May 27, 2007Posted in: Possibly the worst cover and plot in the world
“Can you take me back to the nursing home now please, I think I’ve just peed myself.”
Eeeewwww, that’s so gross. Who the fuck ever thought this cover was a good idea? More to the point, who the flamin’ hell thought that writing this kind of story would appeal to romance readers?
Check out the blurb:
When Regina’s boss gives an ex-con a job at the bookstore and an apartment across the hall from hers, she expects the worst. Arnold has served 50 years for murder, but Regina isn’t so sure he’s guilty.
Over the course of a week, and throughout the torrential downpours of hurricane rains, Regina and Arnold discover that age and time has no bearing on true love.
That is so nasty. I’ve heard of May to December romances, but this is ridiculous beyond belief. The man looks about frickin eighty years old, whilst she’s not even twenty yet.
AND HE HAS LIVER SPOTS!!! Yuck, yuck, and fucking YUCK!
This book cover is from Amira Press, and positively makes Changeling Press covers look worthy of hanging in The Tate Gallery, in comparison.
By the way, has anybody else noticed that the old man hero looks like The Queen’s husband, Prince I’m-An-Absolute-dick Phillip?
Barbara Sheridan
May 27
4:34 pm
Oh I came across this a long time ago and thought the same thing–Ewww. Just no.
To me the guy looks like character actor Robert Loggia, who I find just plain creepy anyway. http://secondscouteaux.prosygma-serveur.com/articles/1.jpg
Of course if he had more Sean Connery to him it might not be so bad.
But really, FIFTY years in jail and this guy is fit to be Mr. Romance? Again I say Ewww.
Barbara B.
May 27
4:43 pm
You know, I don’t think this book is a romance. I read a few reviews and and the excerpt and it seems like one of those stories designed to be heart warming. I doubt if even the most desperate epublisher would buy such a story as a romance. Who the hell would want to read it?
Lori
May 27
7:36 pm
Blech. Just Creepy. Unless he’s gonna be a grandpa figure to her, which he very well might be – but they should say that in the blurb instead. Just. Ewwwww.
Ann(ie)
May 27
10:09 pm
I think he looks a bit like Ronald Reagan. The funny bit to me, though, is how they appear to have integrated a Poser woman with a real old man. Then again, that’s the only hope an elderly ex-con has of getting with a nubile 19 year old old. The only way a man that age has with a sexy young thang is if he’s richer than Croesus.
katieM
May 28
12:11 am
No. Never. I would introduce him to my 85 year old grandmother and she would probably think he’s too old for her.
Imagine if that were a 90 year old woman and a 19 year old boy.
Ewwww, yuck!!!! And now I must go bathe.
Nicolette
May 28
12:50 am
I take it to be fiction as opposed to erotica.
Anonymous
May 28
10:32 pm
The catalog says it’s an inspirational, so I have to wonder if it goes beyond hand-holding.
Anonymous
May 29
2:48 am
Who the hell wants to read it even if it isn’t a romance? The whole premise creeps me out. I mean the girl’s carrying books, which implies school, which implies eww. Imagine the conversation with school friends: “Ohh is that your grandfather?”
“No it’s my boyfriend. He just got out of jail for murder. So we still invited to your place Saturday?”
AJ
Jane
May 29
2:24 pm
OMG – this is so horrible. I can’t even look at it again, it’s so horrible.