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Description: "The choices I had made led to the moment when fate took over. I would learn a lesson I wasn’t prepared for. Five years ago Abbey Chandler cheated Death. She survived a horrific car accident, but her lucky break came at the expense of her mother’s life and changed everything. After she crossed paths with Death—by taking the hand of an ethereal boy made of clouds and sky—she would never be normal again. Now she’s the target of Death’s Ravens and an innocent boy’s life is on the line. When Nate Holden—Abbey’s secret crush—starts to climb Alaska’s Denali, the Angel of Death is with him because of her. Abbey finds out the hard way that Death never forgets.
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| I like the birds and the over all cover composition, but his wings don’t look quite right. I think I’d like it better if the wings complimented the angle of the birds across the title. | I agree completely. Overall I’m a fan, but his wings are almost shaped like a butterfly. |
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Description: The second in the enthralling new mini-series of novellas from the #1 bestselling authors of the House of Night, Lenobia's Vow tells the gripping story behind the House of Night's enigmatic riding instructor – and one of Zoey’s closest allies against evil The House of Night is an international publishing sensation; with almost 12 million books in print, and an incredible 120 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, the series has taken the world by storm. Now, the excitement continues as the Cast mother-daughter duo shares the back stories of a few of the House of Night's most important – and mysterious – characters. The second of the House of Night Novellas brings us Lenobia, the strong, beautiful horseback riding instructor, who guides Zoey through some of her darkest hours, and has a dark secret buried in her own past... More…
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| I like everything about this cover except for the title. The script font is hard to read, but I’m not sure the name “Lenoba” will be less confusing in the secondary font. | I’m a little neutral about this. The overall effect is a bit too stock art-ish, and I’m with you on the unreadable title font, but I do like the stallion and colors. |
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Description: Seraphina’s first love made her immortal…her second might get her killed. Incarnation is a new series that introduces a fresh mythology perfect for fans of bestselling series like The Immortals by Alyson Noel and Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. After spending six hundred years on earth, Seraphina Ames has seen it all. Eternal life provides her with the world’s riches, but at a very high price: innocent lives. Centuries ago, her boyfriend, Cyrus, discovered a method of alchemy that allows them to swap bodies with other humans, jumping from one vessel to the next, taking the human’s life in the process. No longer able to bear the guilt of what she’s done, Sera escapes from Cyrus and vows to never kill again. Then sixteen-year-old Kailey Morgan gets into a horrific car accident right in front of her, and Sera accidentally takes over her body. More…
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| I like this cover a lot, and it’s a good example of how to avoid a blah YA “big head” cover. Despite the fact that the cover model’s face is the only “image” on this cover, the shadows, the background reflections, and the color palette add an otherworldly quality. I love the font of title, as well. | See now that’s exactly how I would describe this cover: ‘a blah YA “big head” cover.’ |
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Description: Sometimes school is murder. Allie Sheridan's world is falling apart. She hates her school. Her brother has run away from home. And she's just been arrested. Again. This time her parents have finally had enough. They cut her off from her friends and send her away to a boarding school for problem teenagers. But Cimmeria Academy is no ordinary school. Its rules are strangely archaic. It allows no computers or phones. Its students are an odd mixture of the gifted, the tough and the privileged. And then there's the secretive Night School, whose activities other students are forbidden even to watch. More…
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| There’s a little disconnect between the author’s listing on Goodreads and Book Depository and the author’s name on the book, but I imagine that will get ironed out before January. The hand on this cover looks a little too long through the palm, I’m not a fan of that being such a focus. | See comments from above cover. |
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| I love all parts of this cover except the expression on the cover model’s face, and unfortunately she’s front and center. When collagen and a duck face attack! | Yes! I like the heavy action feel, but she looks like a porn star. |
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Description: In Book 5: City of Lost Souls, the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world after a betrayal by one of their own leaves them reeling.
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| I *love* these placeholders, can’t wait to see who steps on to the stage. | Cliff Nielsen will do an amazing job on the final cover. Can’t wait to see it. |
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Description: Best known for her New York Times bestselling urban fantasy novels, Carrie Vaughn has also written dozens of short stories for Talebones, Realms of Fantasy, and many other magazines and anthologies. Collected here for the first time are ten of her favorite hard-to-classify stories covering the full range of speculative fiction – science fiction, fantasy, horror – sometimes all in the same story. Read about Emily Dickinson's dog, women pilots in WWII, future Hollywood, a haunted Europa, and more! Acclaimed author and editor Jay Lake contributes an introduction to this unique collection. More…
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| The proportions of the cover look a little foreshortened, but I love the faery/butterfly points of light and her lantern. | Soft and pretty. I’ve loved some of Carrie’s non-Kitty short stories so I have high hopes for this anthology. |
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Description: It's winter break at St Vladimir's, and a massive Strigoi vampire attack has put the school on high alert. The glittering winter landscape may create the illusion of safety but Rose - and her heart - are in more danger than she ever could have imagined...
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| Love the movement in this cover, the eye is drawn from Rose’s fist, around the fire, and back to her outstretched hand. | I know this is a graphic novel, but it feels too cartoonish. |
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Description: Trying to work things out with Nash—her maybe boyfriend—is hard enough for Kaylee Cavanaugh. She can’t just pretend nothing happened. But “complicated” doesn’t even begin to describe their relationship when his ex-girlfriend transfers to their school, determined to take Nash back. More…
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| Totally cool, I wonder if it will still be moving on the eBook! Even static, the blue butterfly is such a lovely focus next to the cover model’s profile, gorgeous. | Now this is an idea I really hope is caching. Animated ebook covers! This is beautiful and just the tiniest bit haunting…just like the book. |
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Description: Emma Bannon, Prime sorceress in the service of the Empire, has a mission: to protect Archibald Clare, a failed, unregistered mentath. His skills of deduction are legendary, and her own sorcery is not inconsiderable. It doesn’t much help that they dislike each other, or that Bannon’s Shield, Mikal, might just be a traitor himself. Or that the conspiracy killing registered mentaths and sorcerers alike will just as likely kill them as seduce them into treachery toward their Queen. In an alternate London where illogical magic has turned the Industrial Revolution on its head, Bannon and Clare now face hostility, treason, cannon fire, black sorcery, and the problem of reliably finding hansom cabs. The game is afoot…
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| I’m not as much of a fan of the “live” steampunk covers, but this one works for me. I like the magic in her hand and the lighting around them both. | I’m betting that ‘live’ look will be toned down for the final version, but I love that the steampunk and supernatural elements are so clearly portrayed. |
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Description: While attempting to escape the agonizing memories she associates with Christmas, twenty-nine-year-old widow Megan Snow builds a snow family outside the mountain cabin she once shared with her husband and collapses in tears against the snowman at the sight of what she'll never have. Called to life by the power of Megan's tears, snow god Owen Winters appears unconscious on her doorstep in the midst of a raging blizzard. As she nurses him to health, Owen finds unexpected solace in her company and unimagined pleasure in the warmth of her body, and vows to win her heart for a chance at humanity. More…
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| The lighting on this cover model gives him a CGI quality, but I like how it works with the snow and symbol on the rest of the cover. | Where’s my neutral hand? I’m not turned off or overly intrigued. |
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| Essentially a “big head” cover, but I like the title presentation. Even the aggressive colors work well with the blond cover model and the black accents. | Yes, it’s a big head, but the detail given to the colors, background, title design, and ever her expression make this an easy thumbs up for me. |
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| I like that the artist included details from the book, but the whole cover has a very dated feel for me. The title font in particular reminds me of books I read in high school. | I love the old meets new look here. And I think this is the first ‘male’ cover I’ve seen from Gene Mollica. Looks good, sounds better. |
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| Normally I prefer the edgier covers in The Morganville Vampires series, the character focused ones are rather meh. I like this cover model though, and the composition holds up even without any background setting. The black bob has been vastly improved since FADE OUT. | Beautiful continuity between these last have dozen covers. The Eve on the cover of FADE OUT is more in keeping with how she is described in the books, but this new Eve looks great too…and maybe she decides to ditch the uber goth look in the book…? |
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| Good use of tiger! Love how the cover model’s hair color compliments the title color and tiger. This cover doesn’t “wow” me, but it also avoids some common paranormal romance pitfalls that turn me off. | I really like that they took the red from her lipstick and used it for the title while keeping the background just a shade or two lighter than her skin. |
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| I’m not a fan of having the pouty guy in the hoodie as the central figure on all of these titles, but at least the fire on this one breaks up the grey-grey-grey boring of previous covers. | This may take the continuity between covers idea a little too far. Couldn’t they have at least changed the color of his hoodie? I’m in love with the title detail though. |
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I love the cover for The Iron Wyrm Affair by Lilith Saintcrow! Can't wait for it to come out
ReplyDeleteI'm digging the My Soul to Steal cover. This is the first time I've ever seen an animated book cover. Too cool!
ReplyDelete@Maria - I'm excited for a Saintcrow steampunk, I can't wait.
ReplyDelete@Carmel - I'm excited to see some one taking advantage of the electronic format.
And just wait until next week. We've got another animated cover that is stunning!
ReplyDeleteWow the animated cover rocks, I can see this going huge. Thanks for the post ladies, you guys always make me giggle ( duck face porn attack!)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the cover reveals! I get most of my first new release news from you guys. I can't wait for Lilith's newest series. And even with the duck porn face, I'll probably pick up Duncan's newest, maybe just find a sticky note to cover it :)
ReplyDeleteI love the animated book cover for Rachel Vincent! So many possibilities of what they could do with the electronic covers - exciting! I would pick the Blood Fever for my worst. The pink and floating head just aren't my cup of tea.
ReplyDeleteSidebar: I was at the salon yesterday and they had a huge hair straightener ad with the original stock photo of the UF girl. Poor girl probably didn't get paid enough for that shot. LOL
@Erin - That's where my "Platetectonics and You" hide-a-cover comes in handy, excellent duck face coverage.
ReplyDelete@Hoping - Your salon story completely made my day, now I'm going to be stalking beauty product displays.