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Description: From national bestselling author Lauren Dane comes a white-hot new series of a dangerous family legacy, and sensual paranormal passions played to the death on the knife-edge of darkness… Meriel Owen, next in line to control the largest organization of witches in the country, is asked to investigate the owner of a notorious club reportedly siphoning magic from the font of the Clan. It’s a direct violation of the Clan Code of Conduct, but one look at Dominic Bright and Meriel’s willing to make a deal. One taste of the sexually feral outlaw witch, and she’s eager to go further: he’s her bond mate, a legal conduit into the world of Clan witches and their magic...more
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| A gritty, somewhat gothic looking urban setting and powerful looking redhead. Looks good to me. | This cover reminds me of an old Nancy Drew cover, I agree with Abigail. Very gothic and old-school |
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Description: No official description yet, but here's what Kim had to say: "The Hollows World Book, The Hollows Insider which I'm just putting the finishing touches on, will be out this November. This will be a collection of spells, character descriptions, news articles, and recipes--among other tidbits. It has an encompassing story line, which makes it rather unique and a great Hollows story in itself. I've been working on this for a while now, and I'm very excited about it. Tons and tons of extra stuff. "
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| We’ve only ever gotten glimpses of Rachel’s face, so it’s nice see see her a bit. But since this is all about the whole series, why couldn’t we get a group shot? I’d love to see Jenks. | I’m so excited about this book, it could have come in a brown paper bag and I’d be all over it. I know Jenks is always making fun of Rachel for dressing trashy, which I guess explains the Batman/Buff cross over outfit. |
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Isle of Night by Veronica Wolff
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Description: IS LIFE OFFERING FEWER AND FEWER OPTIONS? THEN JOIN THE DEAD. When Annelise left for college, it meant good riddance to her abusive father and stepmother—until a bureaucratic screw-up left her without a diploma, flat broke, and facing a future that seemed more elusive than ever. Then she met Ronan—tall, dark, and way too seductive for her own good. He promised Annelise a new life, if she had the courage to chance the unknown. One look at him and she certainly had the desire. Sure enough, accepting rides from strangers does yield surprises. Whisked away to a mysterious island in the North Sea, Annelise is pitted against other female recruits in ...more
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| The blue, purple, and green colors work really well. Normally I don’t love the giant heads, but I like it here. | I’m not a fan of the Photoshopped landscape at the bottom (maybe it will look better in person), but the cover hero reminds me of Adrian Grenier (Aquaman from Entourage), so all is forgiven. |
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Description: A new hot and funny paranormal series by bestselling author Linda Wisdom, featuring sexy demon heroes, the latest hot phenomenon in the romance category along with her sassy witches. When satanic Mayan priests go rogue on kickass witch Maggie Malone’s watch, she must team up with hotter-than-sin fire demon, Declan to save her neck ... and the world. Linda Wisdom has successfully crossed over to single title romance with her Hex series for Sourcebooks. Beginning a new series, Linda brings her signature imagination to an urban setting featuring sexy demon heroes, feisty heroines and a paranormal cast of thousands.
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| As with the previous cover, this guy has a slightly creepy expression on his face, but otherwise I like this. Lots of detail and the magic effect on her hand looks very cool. | This cover and copy are both pretty silly, which makes the cover model’s hands-on-hips sassiness just fabulous. Love it! |
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Description: As the mercenary captain of the Lady Corsair, Yasmeen has learned to keep her heart as cold as steel, her only loyalty bound to her ship and her crew. So when a man who once tried to seize her airship returns from the dead, Yasmeen will be damned if she gives him another opportunity to take control. Treasure-hunter Archimedes Fox isn’t interested in the Lady Corsair — he wants her coldhearted captain and the valuable da Vinci sketch she stole from him. To reclaim it, Archimedes is determined to seduce the stubborn woman who once tossed him to a ravenous pack of zombies, but she’s no easy conquest. When da Vinci’s sketch attracts a dangerous amount ...more
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| Big improvement over the first cover (I thought the pose of the first guy coupled with the cropped off head was not a good look) and I really like the blue they added. I‘m loving this series so far and can’t wait to read more. | Wow, that is one skinny and intense model, I feel like he really fits the Archimedes Fox vibe. Couldn’t you see him gliding out over a jungle of zombies and surviving? I agree with Abigail, much better than THE IRON DUKE’s odd Grease homage. |
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Description: The Dragonstar clan is under attack, endangered by an insidious enemy. Now a top sentry must go undercover, but the task will be more than he bargained for… Desperate to save his clan from deadly biological warfare, Dragonstar sentry Logan Kelly must infiltrate the Wyvermoon clan—and put an end to the war. Posing as a rogue dragon without a clan, Logan quickly realizes how close the Wyvermoons are to anarchy since the death of their leader. Their ranks are thin, and their only hope lies in Cecily…more
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| How fat is that belt buckle! I seriously want one. You can see it better on the cover for book one, but it really epitomizes these scorching hot dragon shifters for me. | Oh man, I agree, that belt buckle is awesome. That dragon tat is pretty kick-butt as well, I feel like they’ve given some pazzazz to the usual “headless shirtless man” motif. |
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| I’m not a fan of the skeletal physique that gets used in chick-lit covers, but I like that her shadow is a wolf. | *Love* the wolf shadow, and this cartoon style reminds me of 101 Dalmations, it works for me (although now I have Cruella de Vil in my head). |
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| They’ve got a nice thing going here having her coat obscure most of her face. It’s mysterious and really the main character’s profession: thief. | Mysterious and badass, I like the mix of modern and ancient elements (guns and cobblestones). |
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Description: New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh is back in the shadows of a deadly, beautiful world where angels rule, vampires serve, and one female hunter must crawl out of the darkness to survive… The severed head marked by a distinctive tattoo on its cheek should have been a Guild case, but dark instincts honed over hundreds of years of life compel the vampire Dmitri to take control. There is something twisted about this death, something that whispers of centuries long past…but Dmitri’s need to discover the truth is nothing to the vicious strength of his response to the hunter assigned to decipher the tattoo. Savaged in a brutal attack that almost killed her, Honor is nowhere near ready to come face to face with the ...more
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| Yay- it’s Dmitri’s book. Not so Yay – What is up with his head? It doesn’t look like it’s on the right body or even the right size. Big let down from the previous book. | I know I’m judging this book harshly, and Elena is a hard act to follow, but I wouldn’t have matched this book with the Guild Hunter series at all if it wasn’t for the title font. |
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Description: Sequel to Lev Grossman’s The Magicians. The new book picks up with protagonist Quentin Coldwater five years after the original—at the end of The Magicians Coldwater is 23—when he and his friends have become royalty in the fantasy world of Fillory. Coldwater, who is dealing with the challenges of being a member of the ruling class, embarks on a dark quest in the novel, which Bennett called “Voyage of the Dawn Treader [book 5 in the Chronicles of Narnia] as rewritten by Raymond Chandler.”
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| One of the Tor UF Facebook followers said it looked like a gorilla on the left and now that’s all I can see. | This is a great cover, it reminds me of old school fantasy novels. Also, I see no gorilla (*closes eyes, rocks back and forth*). |
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Description: In book one of the Fury trilogy, Emily Winters and Chase Singer discover that a little guilt isn’t the only consequence of doing wrong. After Emily hooks up with her best friend’s boyfriend and Chase’s secret harassment of a social outcast spirals out of control, three mysterious Furies—paranormal creatures that often assume the form of beautiful female cousins—come to town to make sure that Emily and Chase get what they deserve. Not everyone will survive—and those who do will discover there are worse punishments than death. But when Emily befriends outcast Drea and learns more about who and what the Furies really are, she becomes resolved above all to take them down and stop their plans. Little does Emily know, by confronting the Furies, she could become inextricably bound to them for life...more
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| I would kill for her hair. Everything about this is gorgeous and ethereal. | There’s no delicate way to put this, my first thought upon seeing this cover is “bad-ass”. It’s amazing what she can do with just her hair and her expression, this cover is as captivating and powerful as all the leather and guns of UF. |
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Description: Starring Gregori!
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| That’s quite a title to live up to…I do like the piercing quality of his eyes, but I’m not calling this race just yet. | These two seem awkwardly posed, like a tableau in a wax museum. |
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Description: Born into a life of secrets and service, Chrysabelle's body bears the telltale marks of a comarré -- a special race of humans bred to feed vampire nobility. When her patron is murdered, she becomes the prime suspect, which sends her running into the mortal world...and into the arms of Malkolm, an outcast vampire cursed to kill every being from whom he drinks. Now, Chrysabel...more
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| Wow WOW WOW! This is unbelievably stunning. The ribbon flowing right out of the frame…everything. | This cover made me want to have this book immediately, October is way too far away. |
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Description: As the son of a serial killer, homicide detective Thomas “Veck” DelVecchio, Jr., grew up in the shadow of evil. Now, on the knife-edge between civic duty and blind retribution, he atones for the sins of his father—while fighting his inner demons. Assigned to monitor Veck is Internal Affairs officer Sophia Reilly, whose interest in him is both professional and arousingly personal. And Veck and Sophia have another link: Jim Heron, a mysterious stranger with too many answers...to questions that are deadly. When Veck and Sophia are drawn into the ultimate battle between good and evil, their fallen angel savior is the only thing that stands between them and eternal damnation.
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| The worlds only cover model gets another gig. He does look good here. Easily my favorite in the series so far. | His wings have an interesting quality to them, like they’re under black light or made out of mica. |
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Description: Since being gifted--or cursed--with her ability to touch a lifeless body and relive the victim's final moments, Olivia Wainwright has died a hundred deaths. She hears the screams, tastes the fear; feels the excruciating pain--and every glimpse into this darkness draws her deeper into danger. Now, though, she's met a man who offers a glimmer of light. Savannah Detective Gabe Cooper might look like a sexy good-old-boy, but his laid-back attitude hides a sharp mind and a protective heart. He doesn't believe in psychics--until he meets Olivia and sees firsthand how her dark gift ravages her spirit. As their bond deepens, Olivia will have to choose between her cold gift and the warmth Gabe provides. But her past is …more
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| Am I the only one who thinks the model looks like Tess from Smallville? | Totally! I like this cover, too, her expression and the scene are |
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Sins of the Angels by Linda Poitevin
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Description: A detective with a secret lineage. An undercover Hunter with a bullet-proof soul. And a world made to pay for the sins of an angel… Homicide detective Alexandra Jarvis answers to no one. Especially not to the new partner assigned to her in the middle of a gruesome serial killer case—a partner who is obstructive, irritatingly magnetic, and arrogant as hell. Aramael is a Power—a hunter of the Fallen Angels. A millennium ago, he sentenced his own brother to eternal exile for crimes against humanity. Now his brother is back and wreaking murderous havoc in the mortal realm. To find him, Aramael must play second to a human police officer who wants nothing to do with him and whose very ...more
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| But how is she supposed to fight the fallen angels without stilettos and a leather mini skirt? This looks and sounds smart. | SINS OF THE ANGELS and Fringe, bringing the pantsuit to the front lines. I agree with both of your adjectives, Abigail, and love the angel pyrotechnics going on in the background, too. |
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Unleashed by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie
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Description: Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie, the New York Times bestselling authors of the Wicked series, have created an entirely new trilogy with the passion of Twilight and the grandeur of Fallen. The Wolf Springs Chronicles introduces readers to a town of secrets and the new girl who's about to start believing in werewolves. When Katelyn starts at her new school the only person she knows is the handsome and intriguing Trick Sokolov, an acquaintance of her grandfather. She's surprised when the popular Cordelia Fenner invites her home and when she meets Cordelia's hot brother, she begins to think her ...more
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| It’s a little odd that his hand is impersonating Thing from The Adams Family, but otherwise this is really quite pretty. Seeing the original below, I wish they hadn’t changed it. | This cover is striking, but a bit too overwrought and contrived for me. This and a werewolf/high school plot aren’t going to be enough to pique my interest, I’ll wait to read some reviews. |
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Description: A sexy new adventure-packed romance with a paranormal twist-from the award-winning author.
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| Finally one of these guys gets to wear a shirt. I love the muted gray/blue colors and the modern meets ancient vibe. | He gets a sword, a shirt, a necklace and bracelets, this guy won the UF clothing jackpot! The detail around his setting and clothing makes him feel like an actual character rather than beefcake (or should I say, “more than beefcake”). I like the effect a lot. |
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And our picks for Best & Worst…
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Which are your Best and Worst?
Fury is hands down my fav. I want to be a red head now.
ReplyDeleteRain Maiden - Me too!
ReplyDeleteBlood Rights is even better in person. I definitely agree with your choice of it as the best of the bunch. I recently received an ARC and hadn't seen the cover beforehand, and it blew my mind. I can't wait to see books two and three, and we shouldn't have to wait too long because they are releasing in Nov/Dec.
ReplyDeleteSara - You got an ARC already! Color me jealous. Let me know if you want to swap ARCs :)
ReplyDeleteOoh new Kim Harrison and a different Mary Janice Davidson. EXCITING
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