I don't know what was in the water this week, but if you haven't already checked out these two posts, one a review, one a commentary on a book cover, you really should do yourself a favor:
Staffer's Musings Reviews Shadow Prowler: You may remember Alec's review of this gem. He had similar feelings as I recall.

Stomping on Yeti Talks Scalzi's New Cover: The book Redshirts gets a lame cover while they taunt us with actually decent ones.