Postcard For Reader

Friday Fronts - Stormdancer

I have a fifty/fifty love for illustrated covers and normally I'm not a fan of this kind of illustration.

However, it's so awesome that I have to like it.

We've got a woman holding a weapon in a non-sexualized pose (even with her hair flying everywhere) and I love it. There's the hippogriff or whatever the hell it is -- I can't remember the name of it -- in the top corner being all, "I'M CRAZY AWESOME LOOK AT ME" and the color combination is just awesome.

Overall, it's just awesome.

Except, maybe, the font for Stormdancer. I'm not a fan, but that's the only thing I dislike. (Well, that and the quote in the corner, but I hate quotes on fronts of books as a whole.)

What about you? Fan of the font? Of the sword? Of the not-a-hippogriff?