One Ugly Goddess

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to take this opportunity to share. As I said in the chat today, my roommate and I had this really clever idea where she would bring her paperbacks of The Thief and QoA and I would bring my KoA. We only lasted two weeks before I had to send for my hardcovers because I was in withdrawal and we needed multiple copies to live.

I am of course immensely fond of my hardcovers because I have known them well since eighth grade (so for, like, 6.5 years). However, looking off the side of my bed and seeing The Thief, I realize...

HOW INCREDIBLY UGLY THE COVER IS.

It wasn't even until last year, with the help of my Eddisian co-conspirator, that I figured out what the cover was OF. For years, I thought it was a really really ugly man. It didn't even occur to me that it might be Hephestia. I think that's not my fault, because you know what Great Goddesses aren't supposed to be?

I will tell you.

They are not supposed to be horrifically, mind-fryingly ugly. They are not supposed to be SO ugly that it takes three people to figure out they are a woman. They are not to be SO ugly that you're GLAD a hand-shadow is covering part of their face. It is NOT PROPER GODDESS BEHAVIOUR.

Well. At least it's a hardcover.

Comments

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

There's a shadow of a hand? o.O This is my preferred cover too (I HATE the paperback I own), but I never looked at it all that much--unlike QoA, where I used to just sit and stare at the hand, memorizing it.

I think I knew it was Hephestia. Actually, I know I knew it was Hephestia, because when I first read this post, I couldn't figure out what the problem was. :-b I like it because...it looked tranquil to me. Just...there's a statue. Completely misleading as to what was contained inside.

The paperback Gen looks, to me, like a badly drawn Sirius Black.

...I cannot BELIEVE I never saw that hand...*facepalm*

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

I never noticed the hand before either. I don't think the statue is all that ugly. I like the cover better than the "Gift as a Yo Yo" one. Interesting he would be reaching with his left hand to take the Gift.