I read Terry Pratchett's Snuff the other day and it struck me that I find it difficult to picture Pratchett's characters as people who look like us. I suspect it is because of the cover art.

So I thought through other books and the way I picture characters while reading and discovered that I really am dependent on cover art to help me visualise what the characters look like.

I don't have trouble with Wheel of Time characters, or Feist's, or Eddings' - they all look like proper people in my head while I read. But I cannot picture Joe Abercrombie or Scott Lynch's characters as anything but caricatures of human beings.

Is this just me? Sometimes I worry about my brain.