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Description: Lil isn't just an average teenager. She's one of the Nephilim--the descendants of humans and angels--which gives her some serious psi skills and a mission for redemption. Just when Lil thinks she's found a balance between her normal life with human friends and her training to become a Guardian, she's warned that someone close to her will betray her. When the boy she loves starts acting strangely and one of her human friends acquires a supernatural ability, Lil begins to realize that someone is manipulating the people she loves... and won't stop until she's been lured to the dark side.
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| This cover has a very classic color palette, but the arched sun salutation on the cover is a little overly dramatic for my taste. | Overly dramatic is the perfect description. And this so doesn’t look like a YA cover. I thought it was paranormal YA until I read the description. It is a HUGE improvement over the original though. |
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Description: As vampires from all over the world descend on the Drake farm for the Blood Moon gathering, security is ramped up. Lucy has been temporarily banned, for her own safety—and to allow Solange some time to adjust to her new existence. But their enemies realize how much Lucy means to the family, and plan to abduct her to use her for leverage against the new royal family. Instead, Lucy’s cousin Christabel is kidnapped by mistake—and Connor Drake immediately heads off in pursuit, but isn’t in time to prevent Christabel’s infection by the Hel Blar. He can’t save her human life, but he can still try to save her new vampire life, and is willing to put his own life on the line for the girl he has grown to care so much about. Can he save Christabel, the Blood Moon, and his mother’s newly forged Vampire Alliance?
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| I like the “neck emphasis” and colors of this cover, and the close focus fits with some of the covers in this series. | This is a bit different from the previous US covers…more adult maybe, but I love the neck and bright splash of pink too. |
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Description: A damned Viking warrior. Centuries ago Broder Calderson committed murder. As punishment, he was given over to the dominion of Loki, the Trickster God, made part of the Brotherhood of the Damned and condemned to an immortal life of battle against the Blight, blood-drinkers from Hel. A mysterious woman he can’t resist. One thousand years to the day he was damned, Loki allows him a woman as reward for his good service and repentance of his crimes. Once Broder sees Jessamine Hamilton, he is overcome with need. But Jessa is no ordinary woman, and the truth of who—and what—she is could have dangerous consequences. More…
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| I don’t like the purple title against those oranges. I also feel like this man is peeing, Superman-style, just behind the title. | For a shirtless PNR, I kinda like this. Pee stance aside, I really like the background and and how specific the details are to the character. |
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| I was really hoping for a book description to explain Cat Lady, maybe later. The image is certainly attention getting, but I don’t like the color gradient and font of the title. | I feel like somebody forget to take off their cosplay outfit. It just looks super cheesy with her. |
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| I’m a fan of the direction these last two covers have taken, icy and kick butt. | I’m pretty neutral about this one. But bonus points for the sword. |
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Description: What happens when you discover you aren't who you thought you were? And that the person you love is the person who will betray you? If your fate is already determined, can you fight it? When Evie Tremain discovers that she’s the last in a long line of Demon slayers and that she’s being hunted by an elite band of assassins –Shapeshifters, Vampires and Mixen demons amongst them – she knows she can’t run. They’ll find her wherever she goes. Instead she must learn to stand and fight. More…
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| I love the eyes and the colors. While threatening, this cover could work for any thriller. | Nothing about this says paranormal or YA to me. It looks like the cover of an adult suspense novel. I would walk right past this in a book store. |
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Description: If you live in the dark long enough, you begin to forget the light… KORI DANIELS is a shadow-walker, able to travel instantly from one shadow to another. After weeks of confinement for betraying her boss, she’s ready to break free of the Tower syndicate for good. But Jake Tower has one final job for Kori, one chance to secure freedom for herself and her sister, Kenley, even if that means taking it from someone else… The job? Recruit Ian Holt—or kill him. More…
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| I love the interlocking O’s carrying through to book two, though I’d like this cover more if Kori was actually looking at Ian. I’ve super excited about returning to the Unbound, but there better be plenty of Liv and Cam in SHADOW BOUND! | Totally agree on the title detail. And I like the colors a lot. Eye contact would have been nice, but I LOVED the debut so much I almost don’t care what the cover looks like—almost, but I’m still glad it’s pretty :) |
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Description: Ellie is staying with her maternal grandparents for the summer, while her recently bereaved dad takes off on holiday with his new girlfriend. Upset by his apparent callousness, missing her mother, and jealous for her dad's attention, she begins to spiral into depression. Her grandparents suggest she joins a local theatre group, to meet people her own age and get away from the dark thoughts that threaten to engulf her. But then she gets roped into a séance at the theatre, and is the only one who actually sees a real ghost. Now a spirit is contacting her from beyond the grave - and as the dead boy's story unfolds, Ellie finds herself falling in love with him. But if she solves his mystery and helps release his soul, will he be lost to her forever?
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| I love the waves and the woman on the cliff, but I think this cover would be more effective without the transparent guy face floating in the background. | Yeah, not a fan of the giant floating head, but I love how atmospheric the whole cover is. |
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Description: Kendra Hilferty, the witch who curses Kyle Kingsbury in Beastly, tells about her immortal existence-how she discovered she was a witch and the various ways she has used her powers to help people throughout the centuries. (Unfortunately her attempts have often backfired.) As it turns out, Kendra has actually had a hand in "Hansel and Gretel," "The Princess and the Pea," and "The Little Mermaid"-but these are not the fairy tales you think you know! Kendra's reminiscences are wrapped around a real-time version of "Cinderella," except the "ugly" stepsister is the good guy. With dark twists, hilarious turns, and unexpected endings, Bewitching is a contemporary read for fairy-tale lovers, fantasy fans, and anyone looking for more Alex Flinn.
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| A very different vibe from the original cover, and the new cover model seems to mesh much better with the way Kendra was portrayed in the movie BEASTLY (and from Alex’s comment, the way she described Kendra in the book). I’m glad Alex got so much input on the redesign. | So glad Harper did the right thing by ditching the original design that was essentially a copy of another image. This one is just as beautiful. |
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| This is the first cover where Will doesn’t look sullen, which makes me a huge fan. I, too, love the clasped hands and the fact that they’re looking right into each other’s eyes. | Big fan of this series…I wish the pose was a little more playful like the previous covers, but I love the sweet romance conveyed this time. Can’t wait. |
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Description: Sixteen-year-old Lex Bartleby has sucker-punched her last classmate. Fed up with her punkish, wild behavior, her parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape. But Uncle Mort’s true occupation is much dirtier than that of shoveling manure. He’s a Grim Reaper. And he’s going to teach her the family business. Lex quickly assimilates into the peculiar world of Croak, a town populated entirely by reapers who deliver souls from this life to the next. Along with her infuriating yet intriguing partner Driggs and a rockstar crew of fellow Grim apprentices, Lex is soon zapping her Targets like a natural born Killer. More…
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| I really love this cover model’s expression, and the framing of this cover works for me in a way that previous Reaper-in-a-Hoodie covers haven’t. I’m ambivalent about the title font. | This feels very ‘EIGTH GRADE BITES TO ME.’ Not exactly fresh or exciting for me. |
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Description: Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn't dead. Not this time. But she is being held against her will in the dim, twilit world between heaven and hell, where the spirits of the deceased wait before embarking upon their final journey. Her captor, John Hayden, claims it's for her own safety. Because not all the departed are dear. Some are so unhappy with where they ended up after leaving the Underworld, they've come back as Furies, intent on vengeance . . . on the one who sent them there and on the one whom he loves. But while Pierce might be safe from the Furies in the Underworld, far worse dangers could be lurking for her there . . . and they might have more to do with its ruler than with his enemies. And unless Pierce is careful, this time there'll be no escape.
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| I like the staging of these models, the hand grasping her arm. The flowers in each corner are also a nice touch. | Beautiful and very complimentary to the debut. I wish the model wasn’t quite so thin, but otherwise just lovely. |
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| I don’t like this cover model’s outfit, or the over-exposed light in the corner, on the title, and where her halo used to be. With her centered so small under the cover, she looks lost on the cover. | Eek. This looks so much like an ad for a birth control ring…that’s all I can think of. |
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Description: Heavenly writing, earthy characters, and humor that is wicked as hell. Heidi is seventeen. Insecure. Unkissed. Unremarkable, she thinks, in every way but one: She has a guardian angel, Jerome, who whispers in her ear all day long, amusing her, confusing her, but hardly ever saying anything that might help her discover who she's meant to be.
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| This cover isn’t final, and I’m glad there’s still room for tweaking. The “comedic” touches on the cover and the arrow through the head don’t jive with the overall feeling of the cover. | I know. I was thinking how soft and sweet this was until I spotted the arrow…not sure what they are going for there. |
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Description: The rich stew of the author's creations—SingleEarth, vampires, shapeshifters, Tristes, the Bruja Guilds—are at full boil here in the story of two 20-ish young women trying to out run their very different pasts, and figure out where they fit in and who they might become. Each has landed in a more "normal" place, and each wonders if, like a tattoo that can't be covered up, they can ever really fit into "normal."
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| I like the details on the title, but the CGI cover model is too creepy for my taste. Also, she seems too distinct from the background tree, the elements on this cover could be blended together better. | This is bad. Looks totally self-pub…really unfortunate. |
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Description: Nick Cross always listens to the voice in his head. Because if he doesn’t? Things can go really, really wrong. Like the day he decided to go off script to save a life, dooming another one in the process. Trying to change the future can have disastrous consequences..
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| I’m not sure about the font for this title, but I love the ribbons trailing off of this character. They are a great graphical representation of Nick’s situation. | I love the juxtaposition between the soft smoke tendrils and the rough almost child-like title font. So cool. |
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Description: About an American teenager whose life is changed when she learns she’s a member of an ancient Italian family of demon hunters.
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| I like the candles around the cover model, but they can’t compete with the huge title. I’m also not a fan of the expression on the cover model’s face, just the back of her head would have been a better fit for the dramatic/mysterious vibe. | I’m not a fan of font that makes you squint to read it. This isn’t as bad as some, but not nearly as clear as it should be. I do like all the tea lights, but not the dress..it has a historical feel for me. |
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Description: From the New York Times bestselling author who brought you the Lords of the Underworld comes a dark, seductive new series featuring angels poised at the brink of destruction… Leader of the most powerful army in the heavens, Zacharel has been deemed too dangerous, too ruthless, and if he isn’t careful, he’ll lose his wings. But this warrior with a heart of ice will not be deterred . . . until a vulnerable human tempts him with a carnal pleasure he’s never before known. Accused of a crime she did not commit, Annabelle Miller has spent four years in an institution for the criminally insane. Demons track her every move, and their king will stop at nothing to have her. Zacharel is her only hope for survival, but is the brutal angel with a touch as hot as hell her salvation—or her ultimate damnation?
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| Wow, wow, those wings mashed between them just makes this hotter. I think I’m on record about needing more than just abs on a cover, and the clinch between these two has movement and passion. | I’m so dumb. I didn’t even realize they were wings ;) I thought it was a sheet. But yeah, it’s pretty hot. |
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| This color palette is pretty “typical YA”, but they did a great job with it. I particularly like the repetition of light on the flower center, across the petals, to the title. | This is my favorite of the series…really love the subtle glow. |
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The demon catcher one, I don't like too much there is too much going on.
ReplyDeleteYea the Wicked Nights cover is hot. Loving the new look guys!
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