It doesn't look very awful to me! :O No matter what you say. It's just early 90s-fantasy-y, and way better than most such. Nobody has giant hair or cleavage poses or anything! And there's no neon pink on the cover! There is pretty much every color except pink, dude.

(I would never ever read that book based on that cover. *laughing* Like, even your enthusiastic recommendation is suddenly dimmed, and I have to remind myself that no really there are proverbs and everything about books' covers, it's okay self.)