u/Zealousideal_Run405

This is just about how the book physically looks not the translation quality.

Maybe I'm being overly critical but it doesn't seem very cohesive. Like the art on the spine, the table of contents, the chapts, it's cute and I really like them. I also really like the character illustrations. And the book jacket's nice. I think Hai Tang did a good job there.

It's just the cover doesn't make any sense. I read this story a long time ago so maybe I'm misremembering but it just doesn't fit the tone of the story or the cute illustrations. And there's just something funny about the shikishi board showing the cover with this silvery glittery border and the tagline: Is the Demon Venerable in seclusion to study cultivation manuals... or read romance novels? Where's the correlation between that and the image??? But that's fine, I knew about this when I preordered. I'm just, I preordered vol 2 and I'm so confused by the cover. Am I overreacting or do these covers just not go together? When I compare this to Hai Tang's other series with multiple titles out, Guide on How to Fail at Online Dating, those the covers make sense together so what's going on with DVAWTK?

Also I like the book's spine, but I've never seen a spine look like that before, and a part of me does worry the book will fall apart lol. Then there's these smudges, the words escaping me, but they look like smudges on the top sides of the pages. At first I thought they were stains lol but it looks like this is a design choice that honestly I would've been fine not having on each page. Finally I do like the book jacket. So my feelings toward this vol is mixed. I don't know if I'm just being nit picky or what but something about this vol bothers me.

I'm sure I'll get over it but I was curious if anyone else felt this way about the vol.