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Description: A modern-day thriller about Rory, an American high-school student who enrolls at a London boarding school for her junior year. Soon after her arrival, a series of murders begins to take place across the city—on the exact dates and in the exact style of Jack the Ripper. Rory’s ties to the killer bring her in contact with a secret paranormal branch of the British police, as they attempt to stop the mysterious killer.
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 | I love how this evokes so much of the story with just a few key elements: the English fog, the haunting Jack Ripper in the background, and Rory curled up and vulnerable on the grass. Love this! | Ambiance, ambiance, ambiance, this cover just drips with menace and ghostly threats. The production quality is a bit too crisp (which looks a little “homemade”), but that doesn’t detract from the overall effect. |
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Description: The Lords of the Underworld return in this enthralling tale of an immortal warrior determined to win and the beautiful seductress he can’t resist.
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| Not available for pre-order | Not my favorite. I think it’s the colors that are a miss with the blue lettering clashing with the sunset colors. Still better than most PNR covers | Just when I was about to complain about another tribal tattoo, I realized it was a butterfly. They’re all butterflies! I’m not familiar with this series, but I’m going to read it just to find out what inspires these beefcakes to go so dainty with their tribal choices… |
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Description: The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children. These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life. But when an actual stranger—a boy who seems to fade like smoke—appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true. The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion. Still, he insists on helping Lexi search for them. Something tells her she can trust him. As the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi’s need to know—about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the wind that seems to speak through the walls at night, and about the history of this nameless boy. Part fairy tale, part love story, Victoria Schwab’s debut novel is entirely original yet achingly familiar: a song you heard long ago, a whisper carried by the wind, and a dream you won’t soon forget.
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| I just don’t love these overly washed out YA covers that we’ve been seeing recently. I get that they’re going for ghostly, but I just get blah. | Completely over exposed, I agree, but I like the details of her lace dress and the sheers she presses against enough to compensate. |
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Description: My name is Gwen Frost, and I go to Mythos Academy — a school of myths, magic and warrior whiz kids, where even the lowliest geek knows how to chop off somebody’s head with a sword and Logan Quinn, the hottest Spartan guy in school, also happens to be the deadliest. But lately, things have been weird, even for Mythos. First, mean girl Jasmine Ashton was murdered in the Library of Antiquities. Then, someone stole the Bowl of Tears, a magical artifact that can be used to bring about the second Chaos War. You know, death, destruction and lots of other bad, bad things. Freaky stuff like this goes on all the time at Mythos, but I’m determined to find out who killed Jasmine and why – especially since I should have been the one who died …
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| Sounds great, but it’s hard not to be disappointed when Estep’s UF series covers are so incredible. The font especially just looks like an old Mary Stewart cover to me. | Holy crap, this is Jennifer Estep? I suppose it’s not fair to give a thumbs down just because I’m used to something different from her books, but this cover is pretty forgettable all on it’s own. Can’t wait to read the story, though… |
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Description: 13 Tales of Twisted Faeries on the Dark Side. These are dirty, sticky and sweet stories with a Melissa Marr-ish slant, beautifully crafted and filled with alluring romance, heart-stopping danger, magic, and dark intrigue. These are modern, urban, 'tattooed' stories, not retellings of fairy tales, about beautiful, dangerous fey, or fairies and the mortals who hunger for them. Here's the full line up: Francesca Lia Block, Brenna Yovanoff, Lesley Livingston, Jessica Verday, Rachel Caine, Seanan McGuire, Jackson Pearce, Martin Millar, Lisa Mantchev, Sophie Jordan, Tera Lynn Childs, Karen Mahoney, and Sharon Ashwood.
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| Finally a good anthology cover after a recent slew of so-so ones. Can’t tell if the pixelization is deliberate or just poor image quality. Either way this is as pretty and wicked as the title. | I like the model’s crystalized appearance, but the rose looks like a pale, generic center piece. Maybe it’s the picture quality, hope the real thing comes together better. |
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| We don’t see too many chick-lit style covers featuring a solo guy. Rarer still do they ever look more than cute. Well done. | I agree, making this fun and cartoony is a nice spin on the “shirtless man” cover. |
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| Not available for pre-order | Very cute. Reminds me of the intro for that movie Troop Beverly Hills | This one is cute, but a little unbalanced. I felt like WEREWOLF IN MANHATTAN subtly drew the eye to the cover model, where as in this one the fire fights for attention. A tweak of composition is in order… |
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| Not available for pre-order | Wasn’t the gate the original concept for book 2? The font is as beautiful as ever and I like the gold color choice. | Well done, cohesive with the series and yet lovely in it’s own right. I don’t know if I will ever be able to tell these books apart by title, so it’s a good thing they’re color coded… |
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Description: Shale is in trouble - the creature-filled darkness known as the Roil is expanding, consuming the land, swallowing cities whole. Where once there were 12 metropolises, now only 4 remain.
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| Apart from the trendiest font ever (please stop using it everyone), I love that the city background was so fully detailed. And a girl can’t go wrong with a shotgun. | Love! I’m a big fan of the more comic book style, this looks awesome. |
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Description: “Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.” Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years. What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh—a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds. In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves.
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| What a slut. She’ll just do any cover at this point. She looks better here than on some of the others that she flaunts in my face, but it still hurts every time she cheats on ATUF | Don’t be catty, Abigail, jealous people always use the “s” word. I love the wing tatts, lady, you look fabulous! The stepback is awesome, too, it has a very Japanese flavor. It reminds me of one of my favorite children’s book, Thrump-o-moto, and it proves that her hair blows both ways… |
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Great post! The Near Witch is a pretty cover =)
ReplyDeleteGena Showalter covers are always hot ones!
Hmmm...I wonder if I should check out the Lords of the Underworld Series 8)
ReplyDeleteI like the new Gena Showalter cover but I think the 2 covers for her Alien Huntress series are my favorite.
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Paranormal Haven
Books, Mariya, & PH - It looks like I have some Gena Showalter homework to do, yum!
ReplyDeleteI just picked up Gena's series and I'm looking forward to starting them. I didn't realize the tattoos were butterflies until Julia pointed it out :)
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