• I love this cover. Mostly I love that it's so ****ing purple, and then that the title is yellow and oddly placed. I also love her big, calmly intense eyes, and the way she cradles that gun lovingly between her breasts. Either this is a next-level sexy role-playing scenario, or someone is gonna get very murdered.
• I know when I go to rendezvous (-vouses?), my preferred method of travel is drifting.
• Series!? Here's the other Adam Knight book in the Pop Sensation archives—throwback! (2007).

• Scorching yellow!
• Tiny Shannon. That is a weird use of the front cover image.
• Wow, this passage and synopsis tell us ... nothing. It's boiler-plate, bot-written cover copy.

Serena's flat was a paradox. It screamed mediocrity, it stank of the buckeye in art and upholstery.

• Yesterday, I said I'd buy pretty much any vintage paperback that featured a girl with a gun on its cover. I'd like to expand that claim to include girls with knives or other assorted weaponry.
• She's really holding that knife in the jabby / kill position. Not fooling around...
• Why do I find her completely unsexy?
• Unless this novel involves baseball, that title is terrible.

• God, the copywriter really goes on a cliché bender in that second paragraph. I also love how much mileage (and perhaps joy) said copywriter is getting out of the "[pregnant pause] MURDER!" line...

1. "The beautiful brunette has a face and figure that could send a man ... to murder." (front cover)
2. "LIGHTS ... CAMERA ... MURDER!!!"
3. "... he discovers that a killer is setting the stage - for murder."

• "Mari Barstow" ... "Steve Conacher" ... these names are almost as bad as "Barr Breed." Clearly I need to start a running list of the Most Ridiculous Character Names in my collection. I'll get on that soon.
• What's a "TV singer?"