Current book: Imperium Lupi
Apr. 20th, 2020 06:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I very, very, very rarely read Furry novels. They're almost always poorly written, full of not just typos and misspellings, but bad plots, too. Imperium Lupi got good reviews though, even from non-Furry readers, so I decided to give it a try.
Even just a couple pages in I liked it, so as I often do when I like a book, I googled the author to see if I could find out more about him and the book.
I probably shouldn't have done that with a Furry book. I have no issues with Furry people, that's not the problem here. It's the art of the characters he posted.




All those done by the author himself. Now I can't read the story without picturing the characters with horrible balloon-muscles.
It's his book and his characters, he can have them look however he wants. I just wish I hadn't seen it, because now I can picture nothing else.
Also, I'm not sure if it's a Furry thing or not, but he calls female animals "wolfess" and "catess" and such. Okay, Google tells me that is probably a Furry thing.
Even just a couple pages in I liked it, so as I often do when I like a book, I googled the author to see if I could find out more about him and the book.
I probably shouldn't have done that with a Furry book. I have no issues with Furry people, that's not the problem here. It's the art of the characters he posted.




All those done by the author himself. Now I can't read the story without picturing the characters with horrible balloon-muscles.
It's his book and his characters, he can have them look however he wants. I just wish I hadn't seen it, because now I can picture nothing else.
Also, I'm not sure if it's a Furry thing or not, but he calls female animals "wolfess" and "catess" and such. Okay, Google tells me that is probably a Furry thing.
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Date: 2020-04-21 07:47 pm (UTC)Now that you mention it, this has happened with other books, too. Author drew or used a photo of some actor as a reference, and it didn't at all match what I had in mind.
I guess it's really safer to leave it to your readers, if you're a writer.