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While out Christmas shopping at Barnes & Noble, I discovered that an old favorite has a new cover. Good lord.
Now, admittedly, something sort of like that does happen in the book (although it does not happen in a red velvet boudoir, and the man in question is in fact attempting neither rape nor seduction), and the story does draw on events from earlier books which had fairly explicit sex scenes. But what it's about--in detail and at great length--is moral philosophy, occult theory, and the last fifty years of American history seen as a war between the Light and the Dark, with some consideration of the Grey while we're at it. It is not a bodice-ripper, and this fact would be clear from fifty miles away on a dark night with broken glasses. Consequently, anyone who's actually looking for the book that cover is advertising is going to go away most disappointed, and those who might actually be interested are going to snort and move right along. Memo to marketing department: take notice of WITCH HILL instead, okay? I don't think there's anything you could possibly put on the cover of that one that would be misleading.
Now, admittedly, something sort of like that does happen in the book (although it does not happen in a red velvet boudoir, and the man in question is in fact attempting neither rape nor seduction), and the story does draw on events from earlier books which had fairly explicit sex scenes. But what it's about--in detail and at great length--is moral philosophy, occult theory, and the last fifty years of American history seen as a war between the Light and the Dark, with some consideration of the Grey while we're at it. It is not a bodice-ripper, and this fact would be clear from fifty miles away on a dark night with broken glasses. Consequently, anyone who's actually looking for the book that cover is advertising is going to go away most disappointed, and those who might actually be interested are going to snort and move right along. Memo to marketing department: take notice of WITCH HILL instead, okay? I don't think there's anything you could possibly put on the cover of that one that would be misleading.
