Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon

This book comes from the author of Ice Planet Barbarians. Aside from being recommended to read this book, the bright colors of this book caught my attention. I don’t have many books with this color palette, so it’s nice to add it to my bookcase.

Aesthetically, I like this book.

The dust jacket features blue foil along the outlines of the characters. The title and author letters are blue foil with some shimmering flecks that proved to be challenging to capture on camera. Removing the dust jacket shows a pink hardcover freckled with blue foil stars. The spine detail is a great choice in my opinion. It’s a shift from the spines that normally have some type of color foiled lettering. However, it is just a color foiled copy of what is on the dust jacket.

As far as I am aware, this is the standard hardcover edition that is available in most places where books are sold.

A comment on the inside: I am not a fan of how the chapters flow into one another. It is a seamlessly flow style that means sometimes the ending of one chapter will be on the same page as the next chapter. I shared a picture of the chapter 2 title almost midway on the page. The above blocked out text is from chapter 1. There are some cases where chapters align at the top of a fresh page.

You're standing in cove decorated with books on all three sides, from floor to ceiling the shelves are full of books waiting for the eager dreamer reader to pick them up.

Some books only have one available option, and that's perfectly fine; however, sometimes there is a choice to be made. Do you get the paperback version or the hardcover version. The factor of cost can make this an easy question to answer as paperback tends to be cheaper. The factor of durability can also aid in choosing the hardcover version as the pages are usually more protected against unwanted folding.

For someone like me, I am in the middle. Usually the appearance of a book can sway me to spend a little more on the hardcover, or the pretty sprayed edges featured on some paperbacks will take hold. Because of this, I am often grabbing a hardcover book and removing the dust jacket to see what design lies beneath it. If I am met with simple foiled lettering on the spine, I am likely to choose the paperback version (or whichever one has sprayed edges because I love a good sprayed edge).

That is where this blog comes into play.

I will be starting with hardcover books I currently own (or purchase) and will showcase what the books look like behind the dust jackets.

I will accept requests if there is a book you would like to see as I make frequent trips to bookstores.