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Post by Lisa » Fri April 18th, 2014, 2:39 pm

Hmm, hard to tell. The man's boobs look the same, but the lady's eyebrows look different. Maybe he's cheating on them both?

And that is a terrible choice of dress :eek:
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Post by Misfit » Fri April 18th, 2014, 2:56 pm

[quote=""LadyB""]Hmm, hard to tell. The man's boobs look the same, but the lady's eyebrows look different. Maybe he's cheating on them both?

And that is a terrible choice of dress :eek: [/quote]

It sure like the noses are the same, but you are right about his eyebrows. Yikes! Prolly why he's usually not photographed with them ;)

The purple dress is awful.
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Post by Nefret » Fri April 18th, 2014, 7:04 pm

That dress isn't purple, it's lilac.
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Post by Misfit » Fri April 18th, 2014, 7:57 pm

[quote=""Nefret""]That dress isn't purple, it's lilac.[/quote]

I think you're right. My sleep-deprived eyes just saw purple :p
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Post by Misfit » Sun April 20th, 2014, 3:44 pm

So I just finished this book off this morning.

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Then I'm trolling the freebies today and found this.

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The Linda Hilton book mostly takes place during Napoleon's Russian campaign, published 1980s. A bit on the cray-cray side at times and it does have some of those 1980s tropes that don't work well for the PC readers, but I enjoyed it. The Afton Bonds book takes place in New Mexico, 1920s I think. Originally published 2001 as When the Heart is Right.

Edit, the Afton Bonds book is free today on Kindle.
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Post by Lisa » Tue April 22nd, 2014, 2:51 pm

Not HF (although a couple of them do involve past lives in historical settings), but I noticed there's definitely a trend going on within the Paranormal YA Romance category:

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Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Wed April 23rd, 2014, 12:10 am

All looking very Twilight-inspired. Not the twilight covers, just the general story ambiance.
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Post by Nefret » Wed April 23rd, 2014, 1:01 am

The fonts look pretty similar too.
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Post by EC2 » Wed April 23rd, 2014, 11:43 am

There's an awful lot of black around in historical fiction too at the moment - it's obviously 'on trend.' I don't have the pictures to post but Bruce Holsinger, Patricia Bracewell, Sharon Kay Penman and Giles Kristian have all gone for the black look recently - or their publisher's have. Authors don't have that much say unless self-published.
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Post by Misfit » Wed April 23rd, 2014, 3:50 pm

I have seen this couple before.

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