{"id":1698,"date":"2016-12-14T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/covercritics.com\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2016-12-14T07:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T14:08:44","slug":"burner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covercritics.com\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"Burner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Homicide detective Kim Phillips isn\u2019t like the other officers of the Chicago Police Department. She\u2019s quiet, isolated, and she can speak with the dead. Born with the ability to see into and interact with the afterlife, she is a Burner: a person tasked with hunting down dangerous spirits and sending them to the other side. When Kim exorcises the ghost of a young girl, she\u2019s dragged into a new and unsettling case, one where people like Kim are being killed. The only problem? There\u2019s no connection between the victims, and no proof that they were murdered in the first place. Kim has to catch the killer before he finds his last victim and unleashes an unknown evil on the world.<\/p>\n<p>Burner, the first book in the Affinity Series, is a dark exploration of how life and death are only separated by a single breath and how even those with power can be powerless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/covercritics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/burner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1699\" src=\"https:\/\/covercritics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/burner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/covercritics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/burner.jpg 500w, https:\/\/covercritics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/burner-109x150.jpg 109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/covercritics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/burner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1699\" src=\"https:\/\/covercritics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/burner-109x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/covercritics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/burner-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/covercritics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/burner.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 109px) 100vw, 109px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nathan says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think this is a very professional cover &#8212; the limited palette works well with the focal element of the art, the fonts chosen are distinctive without being overloaded with novelty&#8230;\u00a0I think it says\u00a0&#8220;urban fantasy novel&#8221; very well. \u00a0However, as the story is also a police investigation, I think it would work better if you could find some way to say &#8220;urban fantasy <em>crime<\/em> novel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Could there be yellow traffic lines on the ground, underneath the glowing sigil (muted to match the color scheme, of course)? \u00a0Or some police tape in the shadows behind the title? Or a pair of handcuffs on the ground by the byline? \u00a0I would brainstorm on some simple addition like that to add the angle of police involvement to the cover.<\/p>\n<p>Other ideas?<\/p>\n<p>(And since everyone expects me to say it: &#8220;Burner? I don&#8217;t even KNOW &#8216;er!&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author says: Homicide detective Kim Phillips isn\u2019t like the other officers of the Chicago Police Department. She\u2019s quiet, isolated, and she can speak with the dead. 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