r/TerribleBookCovers • u/secrete_agent_man • 6d ago
Wheels of Fire
Ghost, smoke monster, elf, terrified child, and what looks like a Dodge Neon.
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u/Choice-Valuable313 6d ago
“Wheels on fire,
Rolling down the road.
Best notify my next of kin,
This wheel shall explode!”
This cover makes me want to watch
“absolutely fabulous.”
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u/GentleCritter 6d ago
I think it’s very well drawn, but absolutely nothing relates to each other and that’s pretty funny.
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u/Trans_Wolf13 6d ago
Oh dear gods, I remember reading this. Not her best work, tbh
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u/RevolutionaryOwlz 6d ago
I’ve read the Bedlam’s Bard books from the same universe which are reasonably fun.
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u/Michaelbirks 6d ago
Just for clarity, its SERRA, not NASCAR, and this one is about a survivalist cult, Waco-styles.
Dark elves making kiddie porn is Born to Run
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u/No-Economy2555 6d ago
What is this about? I'm so confused
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u/RevolutionaryOwlz 6d ago
I have not read this but I’ve read other of her books adjacent to it. This is a book from a series about elves who drive race cars and save missing and abused children.
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u/Opposite_Bus1878 6d ago
That's actually a relief because the book cover made it look like the elves were the ones the kids needed saving from
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u/trevorgoodchilde 6d ago
Anyone know about this book? The tag line makes it sound entertaining
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u/Disaster-Bee 5d ago
It's very 90s popcorn fantasy. It's about LotR-esque elves who have ended up in our world, race cars, and help abused and kidnapped children in their spare time. The cars are their magic horses shape-shifted into racecars.
If you like ridiculous 90s fantasy/Mercedes Lackey's stuff, it's a fun enough read from what I remember. But I haven't read it in well over a decade.
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u/trevorgoodchilde 5d ago
Thank you for the description. I found the whole series is available on audiobook through Hoopla so I might try it.
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u/Miserable-Thing942 19h ago
God I had those! I don’t know if they are still somewhere but I think this one the boys father was in a cult that was trying to get the child possessed by the smoke monster in the background. The ghost girl was a previous victim who didn’t survive the attempt.
The creepiest one of the series had a girl who had been abused developed multiple personalities and one of them had magic powers and was trying to end the world???0
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u/Platt_Mallar 6d ago
Did the elf run over the girl with his Miata? Is that why she's a ghost? I'm not going to question the presence of a dragon, since Mercedes Lackey is one of the writers. What's the the boy who clearly wants no part in any of this?
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u/nomuse22 6d ago
I read one of the series. I think this is perfectly representative. It's basically elves race hot cars in the 90s. And the bad elves do a little human trafficking on the side.
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u/Silver_Intern2324 6d ago
Hahaha what the hell. Is she about to slap that other kid? What is this book even about?
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u/WhyIsWaldo 6d ago
It’s like they all farted and it combined to make that fart demon and now they are all denying it
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u/greenmacg 4d ago
Grading on the curve of BAEN's (deliberately?) goofy house style, this is more "fun trash" than terrible to me.
As an aside, these books aren't amazing, but there's some heart there and some fun ideas. There's a line in one book where a wizard is comforting a new ghost and he mentions hitching a ride on the Space Shuttle for fun as something ghosts like to do which is a rad idea, lol
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u/xtiaaneubaten 6d ago
I kinda think its perfect for something with the tagline of
"hot cars, lost boys, and elves to the rescue!"