Thread: Books you love that others hate (or: A defence of covers with half naked men)
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Old 02-14-2022, 09:05 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by Paperbackstash View Post
Well, sometimes great books just have cheesy covers. Ilona Andrews has the excellent series published by Avon books now, but these covers, this is hideous lol

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T3C2ZMC...ng=UTF8&btkr=1
Having read several books by Ilona Andrews (though not that one), I think the cover matches the quality of the storytelling.

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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
It boils down to the romance genre being met with mockery, even sneering, in a way that other genre fiction isn’t. Why are cheesy romance covers, signaled by bare-chested men, objectively more absurd than cheesy sci-fi covers or cheesy thriller covers? Especially when the last frequently figure the objectification, even abuse of women? And yet somehow, they’re considered art of a sort and at worst fun kitsch, and not trash.
I put romance and SF in the same trash heap of generally awful. Thrillers? That category is so broad that I don't know if generalizations can be made. The easy answer to why the romance genre is mocked is that it's marketed to women, and therefore must be inferior to genres men read. Another reason might be that genre romance is so formulaic. SF seems to allow for more variation in plot.
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