![]() Refusing to let her relentlessly cruel mother or a harsh Belgian convent school dampen her passion for life, Kim discovers her first friendships and the depths of her own imagination. Kim’s history begins with an elite London upbringing, surrounded by wealth and privilege but filled with loneliness. ![]() Their only request? She must leave nothing out. Eager to remind their grandmother of her courage, they beg her to share her life story. until her teenaged grandchildren arrive just in time. She is on the brink of relinquishing everything. Then one day she finds herself alone and in despair on a beach near her manor house in Brittany. The years have also dealt her unimaginable heartbreak, but she has always triumphed over adversity thanks to her exceptional spirit and inner strength. Kimberly Rochester has led a life filled with romance and adventure. Hence the dark covers and "realist" artwork as opposed to the more pulpy or cartoonish styles of Elmore or Easley.Distant Starless Nights is a captivating tale about one woman’s search for love across decades and continents. What scuttlebutt I could glean (in those pre-internet days) from the fanzines was that since those were TSR's first hardcover novels, the company wanted them to have a more serious tone in terms of look. Passage to Dawn - He's kind of looks like a drow, but is his hair blond!? ![]() Siege of Darkness - Now he's emo blue elf? Starless Night - what is that? Grumpy Vulcan? ![]() What makes these covers even funnier is that the artists they hired couldn't seem to keep his look consistent - it's all over the place and none of them look drow-like at all: After the awesome Easley and Elmore covers, it just had a WTF quality. Having been a Salvatore/FR fan for a long time, I used to voraciously pickup all the Drizzt novels and discuss them with friends.Įven back when they were first released, we were collectively scratching our heads over the unusual "head-shot" covers for the books in the Legacy of the Drow series. Didn't read about that scene in the Little House books. One of my favorites is a mass-market paperback copy of a biography of pioneer woman and author Laura Ingalls Wilder whose back cover features a woman with short flippy hair like the Breck girl and her shirt unbuttoned to her waist while giving come-hither eyes to Almanzo across a flowery meadow. While I admit to having given this previous thought (we used to have this edition of the book, and I bought the new covers just to get the hideous thing out of the house), it's fairly common for cover art to be completely inappropriate to the content of the book hence, the adage. like his granddaughter, right? like Heidi or something?) I'm going to guess that A) he had never actually read the series of books and wasn't familiar with the characters, and B) the art order said something about a white-haired male elf ('cause if he's white-haired he must be really old, like Gandalf or Elminster or someone, right?) and a girl with thick brown hair and blue eyes wearing a distinctive headband (so, old guy and a girl. Mikaze wrote: I'm just wondering what in the hell must have been on the art order he got for Starless Night. Which leads us back to Starless Night Guy. It was like that one specific character refused to show up for his own covers because the original actor was demanding too much money. They certainly remembered what drow looked like at the very least. IIRC, Heroes'.Lorebook?.had a Drizzt that was the exact opposite of "Starless Night" Dude, but most of the other characters who had shown up on book covers were drawn as they had appeared(IIRC, Alias for example). And they actually had accurate art in sourcebooks coming out around that time. You'd think one of their biggest money-making characters would be getting some accurate artwork on his own book covers. Now, it's been a long time since I've read those books, but if I remember one thing about Drizzt's physical description, it's that he was never described as wearing a skullcap. But just what were the art orders for those covers? Just looking at the same point of origin for these books, if Larry Elmore's Dragonlance covers were to represent the Accurate end of the spectrum, many of the Drizzt books seemed hellbent on setting the standard for the opposite. I know art not being a perfect match for the written concept is a common thing, but generally they seem to be in the same ballpark. What was the deal with those early edition TSR covers for that particular line of novels?
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