Cover Photos: Before and After

I love the cover! The flirty elements they added were great. I noted six differences between the two...

Her bracelets were added. And his tie. And the car changed position.  And his jacket is hanging over the "fence" that they are leaning on. There is no longer a sidewalk, but rather a parking lot. His hand is now visible.

I love the cover. I think adding the tie made it even better.

I enjoyed looking for the differences.  I guess the delicate little bracelets just increase the feminine punch a bit, maybe.  The tie is definitely adding a flirty feel because one assumes that he was fully buttoned up with tie all properly knotted to begin with.  The fact that the tie is hanging and the shirt is unbuttoned suggests that he's getting "more comfortable" (kind of like the old cliche, "Excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable.")  So, in your mind, he's started undressing.

The difference I noticed first is that his face seems to be in slightly less shadow in the more flirty picture.  The shadows under his eyes aren't so deep.  Perhaps that's so you can see the intensity of his expression just a little bit better.

Moving the car has me a bit baffled, except that it allows you to see his other hand, which was a bit awkwardly cut off at the wrist (a no-no in photography to cut limbs off at a joint).  Perhaps they also wanted to show more of the car, a sexy red convertible, than you could see in the first picture.  Hmmm.

What I wonder is how they "found" his second hand!  Hands are not particularly easy to draw in a natural pose without a model.

Thanks for the snippet.  I loved it and am anxious to read the rest of the book!

Loved the snippet and the cover.  I am looking forward to reading this one.  I will be definitely adding this one to my to be read list.

I can't add anything new to what was and wasn't found. But I was immediately struck by the lighting differences in pic 1 and pic 2. His shadowed face in pic 1 gives it a more ominous feel. The bracelets and tie were the next items I spotted. Why I had to go back twice before I noticed the read car had been moved...

She shakes her head back and forth wondering about her own sanity.

It is a "Super" cover and the two snippets I have read are quite the tease. Still 50-60 more books will be read by this poster before I get a chance to order this book.  

I saw all of the difference pretty quickly - and its amazing how those little things make a difference.

And I'm so glad she was trying to loosen the tires before she jacked the car up, even if I had to sit and mentally picture myself doing this to decide if it was possible to loosen a nut by going down.  (Remember, righty tighty, lefty loosey?  My DH quotes that to our sons regularly, and to me when I'm trying to tightening a lid instead of loosening it.)  

I read a older story a while back, and the woman owned a limo company.  She gets a flat, and hops out to change it, while her male passenger offers to do it for her.  She jacked the car up, loosens the nuts, takes it off, puts the new tire back on and tightens everything down, lowers the car off the jack and drives off.  NOT possible.  If you haven't done this yourself - those nuts are on so tight, that if you do the initial loosening while the tire is in the air, the whole wheel spins, and your nut never loosens.  Same thing with getting them really tight - gotta be on the ground.  I was driving my minivan one night when my husband was away.  Realized that things were not right, so I stopped and checked the tires.  The lug nuts were only hand tight on one wheel.  He had rotated the tires, but had forgotten to tighten that wheel once the van was on the ground.  So they started backing off as I was driving.  I was not impressed to say the least.

that one little scene in the older book irked me the whole way through, and took away from my enjoyment of the story.  For me, it wasn't my father that taught me about cars, but my boyfriend, now my DH.  If I had to, I could change the oil.  He even taught me how to rebuild a carburettor.  Not that I could now, nor want to, but at least I understand what is being said when he's with all his friends!  (But why should I change the oil or do repairs?  DH doesn't cook, do dishes or laundry, so I don't do car maintenance or repairs if he's around)

It does seem logical to do it the other way until you forget to loosen them sometime.  That's when you realize that the pressure on one side just sends the tire spinning around.  I've forgotten that step before and had to lower the car, loosen the lugnuts, and jack it back up again.  I had this happen to me one night when I was about 17 on an unlit backroad on my way to visit a friend.  I was with 2 other girls when the tire went flat. 

As we were working to get the spare tire out of the trunk (the nut that held it in place had been screwed back down improperly, like a jar where you get the lid on crooked, and it was harder than heck to get it off), a young man pulled up behind us and asked if we needed a hand.  We were so happy to see him, until we realized that his idea of giving us a hand was to angle his car so the lights shone on the flat tire area -- while sitting in his car watching us change the tire!  Not terribly gallant, but, hey, the light was helpful.  So, we showed him some girl power and got the job done, after having to lower and then rejack the car to get the lugnuts loosened!

It makes me laugh, too, now.  Not so much at the time.  But, hey, that was my first time to have to change a tire under real circumstances, and it just proved to me that I could do it.

Maybe I could have flipped my hair and batted my eyelashes afterwards and said, "Ooops!  Guess a girl just didn't have the strength to deal with such a big, heavy tool after all!" 

There was an episode about changing flat tire.  Hilarious!!!