The novel had one of the worst covers I’ve ever seen on a professionally published book. It’s solid black with the title in white text. I suppose they could have gone that extra step and had the title in black text, but the effect was pretty much the same, it could have been a book about anything or nothing. Add to that a page count that made it feel like a dictionary when you picked it up which inspired you to promptly set it back down. But once I got around to reading it, several years after it came out,…
Tag: costume dramas
The Borgias and The Game of Thrones
It’s unfortunate that these two medieval costume dramas are airing during the same time-they are near clones of each other. They are both about intrigue, betrayal, infidelity, and the sordid underbelly of the world of Kings. I like them both, but they are very similar in their story lines-at least, so far. George R R Martin is a famous Sci Fi writer, though to be honest I am not familiar with much of anything he has written. But I like fantasy and science fiction, so I was a bit excited to see that Game of Thrones was going to be…