There's nothing quite like
Opening a pdf of a novel one was looking forward to discover it's a pdf of the cover.
It is a sad truth that a life spent reviewing books, particularly genre fiction, particularly fantasy, involves reading a lot of terrible books. Worse, reading variations of the same terrible book, over and over. There is a benefit, which is that a gem of the first water like Sarah Tolmie's The Stone Boatmen stands out against the rest that much more.