The most noticeable thing about this cover for Rawn fans? It’s not To Captal’s Tower. Besides that, I kinda like it. It’s incredibly schlocky in that 80s-D&D-novel kind of way, but there’s a charm to that. This is Fantasy and makes no qualms about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchstone_%28novel%29
I actually like this cover even more after having read that the book is about stage performers creating illusions with magic. The glowy dragon makes perfect sense as a showy, over-the-top stage illusion.
Melanie Rawn is one of my all-time favorite authors, and I’m excited that she’s diving into this kind of fantasy!
Having said that, I must also say that I’ve learned my lesson with the Exiles series, and I will not start reading anything by her that is a series, until that series is actually complete. Just sayin’.
But, I do love the cover…
At least its not another bloke in a cloak cover!