Liar cover changed for paperback edition

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New Liar Cover I am still pissed. That hair is not nappy and the girl is lighter skinned than in the book, but...at least she is actually fucking black now? Fuck this shit to hell. I am tired of saying "at least".





Anyway, go buy the book please. Its supposed to be a good read, and we need to prove their fucked up perceptions wrong so that we can force them to actually get it right sometime in the future.

Comments

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

It's better....eh. MY STANDARDS ARE SO LOW

As misadventurelad said not all black women are shades of honey.

Will still buy it to support the improved cover but meh.

[bana05.livejournal.com]

Oh, hi the cover it should've been in the first place. How are you?

is it too cynical for me to think if the author had been black the cover would've remained what it was?

Not Happy

[avalon's willow (from livejournal.com)]

Said So.
http://seeking-avalon.blogspot.com/2009/08/labalestier-new-cover-not-good-enough.html

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

FYI, it's not for the paperback edition. It's for the hardcover edition coming out this October.

[miaryann.livejournal.com]

Getting it.
Also looks like a great addition for classroom library. I have a huge collection of recent YA going, and if I don't go back in the classroom I'm going to donate them to a friend's English/language arts classroom.

Dreads

[(Anonymous)]

Actually dreadlocks are basically the oldest hair style in the world and can be found in every race and were quite popular with Celts and Scandinavians (think WASP). They're not really something we can claim as only ours, our only thing is nappy. Even the mummy Tutankhamun had dreadlocks and he wasn't even black.

-DeT

[winterfox.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that she still looks rather light of skin. :/