Web of the Witch World (Estcarp, book 2) by Andre Norton

[james_davis_nicoll]

Web of the Witch World (Estcarp, book 2) by Andre Norton

Comments

Cover Watch

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

The dragon figurehead's elbows-on-the-sill pose makes me think of a dog sticking its head over the side. Probably not the effect the artist was going for.

Re: Cover Watch

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Me too! Although my first thought was "member of the crew, chillin'" rather than "dog".

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[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

Heh. Yours is better.

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[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

The startled expression is because one of the pseudo-vikings just stepped on her tail.

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[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

Eh it looks like more generalized irritation to me: "Dammit, there'd better be tasty fish this time. I was promised tasty fish *last* time."

[eub.livejournal.com]

Thirded.

Also, I am stumped by the little black-and-white icon appearing on the cover. It reminds me impressionistically of a moon snail.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

And why so many of them? They're like price stickers.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

It's actually censorship of the flying boob-birds.

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

'It is unlikely that “make the plot move forward” was on her to-do list'

It's in the boilerplate for many scheming antagonist contracts. A lot of first timers never read before signing, so they don't know they should charge extra for it, because it's so dangerous.

[mojave-wolf.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm so glad the covers on my mid to late 70's editions were better than these.

I remember loving this book and not being disappointed at all, but I was in 8th grade, probably, so may have been looking at it from a somewhat different viewpoint. Also, that was a loooong time ago so I mighta forgot stuff.

Weirdly enough, even tho I loved Simon and Jaelithe and still have a lot of affection for both, I remember the plots and happenings and characters from the next 3 books a LOT better. Which might be a good sign for you going forward. I had honestly forgotten a lot of the details from the first two books which your reviews reminded me of.