May-27-2011, 10:17 AM (UTC)
I think that the publisher didn’t intend to rely to the contents of the books or a special character. This sort of cover seems to be very „en vogue“ for fantasy right at the moment. You can find various covers, that differs a bit, sometimes it’s a girl with a cape, not in red but in grey and so on, but always very similar. Always the cape, always torn by the wind, always the face hidden. Simply boring. I mean, what has a man in a red cape to do with the Dragon Keeper ? Nothing at all ! That beats everything !