The Spymaster’s Lady by Joanna Bourne
I so think I have posted about this book before but I can’t find it! That oh so irks me. Or maybe I never posted about it because I couldn’t find a summary?
ugh ugh ugh ugh
I can’t want your book if I can’t find information on it people!
::pout::
So I will just post the cover for gwen to cuz I am a nice girl like that. Personally I don’t like it but the set back is nice. I am lazy, click on the authors name. That will take you to her blog. Scroll to the bottom.
And there shall be her post of the cover and the set back. Step back. Whatever the hell those things are called.
The male model has great abs, but why the whole shirt open ogle me look?
And not another spy regency novel! groan groan…
From what I’ve read, TSL looks to be a gritty, history-filled romantic suspense. The hero is an English spy and the heroine is a French spy.
And I think this book sounds familiar because there was buzz about it at Nationals.
How about the Gabaldon quote! That’s quite to coup.
Really Angela? hmmm I know I have seen it before because I recall the blog and I know I had a post on it but if it ever made it on blog is a whole other story.
The search function here is some what fubar. So there are work arounds and all that. I will prolly find it years later like Scandal’s Daughter and something else I KNEW I posted about but couldn’t find.
hee I am going back through old posts and tagging and such. That is helping some. I have it down that I want to read it and I oh so don’t like spy’s. So there has to be a reason. LOL
Is a Gabaldon quote hard to get?
Hmmm… A nice enough cover, I suppose. But it seems kind of odd – like he’s going, “HA HA! Look at my BREASTS!” whipping his shirt open at the same time. Flasher.
I read this. It’s fabulous.
JQ
I’m possibly overreaching, but I see the Gabaldon quote as a stamp of “this book is dense on the history”.
Looks like Harry Hamlin went back to the 19th C to pose for the cover. Me no likey.
The cover model is named Nathan Kamp. He has fans. There are cover model groupies.
Who knew?
http://ravensanctuary.blogspot.com/
They’ve used him for some lovely covers though — Christina Dodd, Cassie Edwards, Amanda Scott, Cheryl Holt. One hopes the man is as hot as he looks, because they don’t let him wear clothes much.
When the D.H. saw the cover he said, “Does this mean you have to write a scene where he takes his clothes off out doors?”
The stepback is just lovely. I’ll try to get that up on my blog.
Hi Julia! (waves madly.) You are so kind.
I don’t know about history dense. (jo chews on the concept for a while.)
Ummm … Can we say … aspiring to accuracy? Eschewing the egregious? Verging on verisimilitude?
I have also read this book and the voice is very fresh and the heroine very distinctive. I would not describe it as dense on history; it supports the romance and adventure but does not overwhelm it at all. It is woven in quite nicely as a catalyst.
Sadly Madeline I haven’t read it yet. Abused bes me. But the cover model… I hate with a purple passion.
Sorry Jo, I do so promise not to hold that against the book.
As Sybil knows, I *adore* Nathan Kamp. My fav covers with him are Karen Marie Moning’s Highlander covers. None of them show his full face, but that body. Oh my that body. Beautiful covers.
Add another book to my TBR pile. The Spymaster’s Lady looks like another I can’t miss.
Hi Sybil —
The whole ‘let’s put a partially naked person on the cover of the book’ thing puzzles me. I mean — why not naked cooks on cookbooks or unclothed mathematicians on Geometry texts? What is it about a nice Historical Romance that brings out the ecdysiasts?
But the best and brightest folks in New York marketing have decided that these covers sell. Readers must (I was going to say ‘gobble them up’) be drawn to them. I think marketing does studies.
I’m glad you won’t hold the cover against the poor story. (grin) And our cover model does look very much like the hero.
I remember one of the Kinsale books (was it Flowers From The Storm?) had a glowering, towering, muscular, dark-haired fellow on the cover when the hero was a slight, fine-featured blond.
Hi Madeline Hunter–
I remember looking long and hard at the way you use history in your stories when I was deciding how much, and where, to slide in detail.
A real education.
On cover model groupies–oh, yes, it is a rich and varied culture. I was sort of a closet groupie of Rob Ashton. I would send my editor jpegs of him, suggesting that he sure would look good on one of my covers.
Of course, once my publisher did use a cover model who had a huge fan base. For my second book, we had headless man and woman (my early books were among the very first headless covers). Well about three years later a fan informed me that the body belonged to John DeSalvo (sp?). She sent me the URL to a site that had the original cover art, and sure enough,there he was.
I saw my editor soon after and said “You hired John DeSalvo and YOU CUT OFF HIS HEAD?”
I mean, really, why bother? They could have put my nephew in that costume.
“ecdysiasts” ::thumbing thru the dictionary:: “ecchymosis” no that’s not it “ectoplasm” nope too far… Ahhh here it is…
OHHH! HA! Yes!
:p
And Madeline – if your nephew looks like John DiSalvo, can you introduce me?
Cover model groupies. I had no idea.
This is so delightful. I love it when people turn out to be passionate about something unexpected, like collecting Victorian marbles (the round kind that you shoot,) or Pears soap advertisements.
Headless people on the cover.
I will not get that image out of my mind any time soon.
Rob Ashton, I discover, was on the April 2007 issue of Playgirl. Woo woo.