There are some very interesting Omnibus covers this week, can you arrange them in the order of Most, Less, and Least like their series covers (I think our feelings on the matter are pretty clear).  There’s some amazing use of fire, a few homemade covers that look great, and at least one cover that looks homemade when it shouldn’t.   

Eternal Starling by Angela Corbett 

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Description: A love so strong, even eternity can’t separate them. Evie Starling has lived a relatively uneventful life hanging out with friends, gossiping about boys, and driving her 1966 Mustang. All of that changes when she moves to Gunnison, Colorado, to start college and meets two mysterious men. For centuries, Alex Night and Emil Stone have yearned for Evie—but they each have their own reasons for wanting to be with her. When both men claim to be her soul mate and tell her about an unbelievable past, Evie learns that she’s not the person she thought she was. Soon, Evie finds herself in the middle of an age-old battle between the Amaranthine Society—the soul protectors, and the Daevos Resistance—the soul destroyers. With a past she doesn’t understand, and a future rife with danger, Evie has to decide who she can trust. But Alex and Emil aren’t the only ones who want Evie, and her soul is about to become the rope in an eternal tug-of-war.   “I hope you like it as much as I do!!!!” – Angela Corbett

Series: Emblem of Eternity #1 Artist: N/A Goodreads: Link	Publisher: Pendrell Publishing Release Date: December 6, 2011 Source: Author’s Blog
Julia’s Thoughts	Abigail’s Thoughts
This is a lovely, soft cover.  I think the title font may be a little too difficult to read, but that may just be on smaller, digital images.	I agree about the title font, but otherwise, I like the soft vintage feel.

 

Previous Covers in This Series

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Giveaway provided by Pocket Books

Two winners will each receive a copy of SURRENDER THE DARK by L.A. Banks

Publisher: Pocket (March 29, 2011)

 

National bestselling author L.A. Banks’s electrifying new paranormal series is set in a sizzling world where Dark and Light are trapped in an eternal struggle for the fate of mankind.

 

Celeste Jackson has fought all her life against a fog of hallucination and substance abuse, but it’s not until she meets her protector, Azrael, an angel who has left the safety of the Light, that she learns of the evil forces that have been trying to ruin her, and why. A fierce battle for control of the mortal realm is brewing, and only Celeste—with the help of theRemnant, her half-human, half-angel brethren—can stand in the way. Together, Celeste and Azrael must gather an army of sensitives to defeat the dark powers that have ruled humanity for centuries, but time is running out. If Azrael surrenders to his growing desire for Celeste, he risks being trapped among humanity forever. But the longer he stays, the harder she is to resist. To save the world, Celeste must draw on her own dark experiences with addiction to help Azrael overcome the one temptation that could possibly make him an eternal prisoner—his obsession with her.

 

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3. Winners will be announced on March 29th

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Bad Blood (Crimson Moon, Book 1) by L. A. Banks

Book Blurb: Sasha Trudeau knows all about working beneath the shadows, back-alley deals, and things that go bump in the night. She also knows that the world is unaware of the existence of the paranormal—and that the government would like to keep it that way. As a highly trained Special Ops soldier, Sasha and her team are an elite group of individuals who are survivors of werewolf attacks, now trained to be loyal to only to each other and their government. But when she returns from a solo mission, she finds that her team has mysteriously gone missing. Shocking government conspiracies, double-dealing vampires, and a host of stunning revelations about who—and what—she really is are only just the beginning…

Review: This book is categorized as Dark Fantasy, the description on the back cover makes it sound like an Urban Fantasy. After reading it, I'm classifying it has a Romance novel with paranormal elements, emphasis on the romance. I was looking for an urban fantasy with some romantic elements thrown it, not the other way around.

While this book takes a new spin on werewolf mythology that is interesting if a little confusing, it is mostly a romance novel (70% of the book is devoted to romance/sex). The writing was sub par as well, especially in the first few chapters. I got pretty tired of reading about someone's 'sexy eyebrow', or 'sexy smile', or 'sexy grin', or 'sexy glance' etc. Beyond that, the plot could have been more interesting had it been told in a different manner. As it was the story took a number of rather pointless "sex breaks" that detracted from the overall narrative.

Sexual Content:

Lots.  And fairly graphic