This week Abigail and I have the opposite of a “perfect game” going on. There are many titles that received unanimous approval, but we also have a perfect record of asynchronous thumbs down going on. Not one title got two thumbs down this week. In a few instances, we mentioned the exact same detail and then went our separate ways (my favorite is the battle axe rock star). Feel free to chime in an help us break all these ties.
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I don’t know about you guys, but my newsfeed has been filled with ever more entertaining items being added to Pinterest. This week has reached a new high, as Abigail created a board for All Things Urban Fantasy. If you’re ever in the mood for new cover art before Cover Art Coverage hits newstands, feel free to stop by our Pinterest and browse. Global covers will appear there, too, be sure to check it out!
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Description: Emma Lost can still remember the day she woke up in the back of a VW van after her famous thousand years' snooze - the one that inspired the Sleeping Beauty myth. Emma knows it's no fairy tale - she's the real Sleeping Beauty, trying to hide her magical powers and swearing off kissing strange men for the rest of her life. Of course, most men follow her around like lovesick puppies...except for Michael Found, her gorgeous boss. The rational, logical Mr. Found doesn't believe her theories about such things as Fates and fairies and magic, and he's determined to expose her as a fraud. But Emma knows for sure the magic truly does exist, and she's going to give Michael a lesson he'll never forget - even if it means breaking her vow of not kissing men.
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| Nothing like a dude in sweatpants trying to act casual to say “Happily Ever After”. The colors are over the top cutesy, this cover needs something that is actually cute to pull it off. He’s hot and hiding his hands… which is worrisome, not cute. | Yep, the colors totally kill this. Way too bright and childish. |
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Description:
Harm no human...
A hired gunslinger, William Jessup Brady lived his life with one foot in the grave. He believed that every life had a price. Until the day when he finally found a reason to live. In one single act of brutal betrayal, he lost everything, including his life. Brought back by a Greek goddess to be one of her Dark-Hunters, he gave his immortal soul for vengeance and swore he’d spend eternity protecting the humans he’d once considered prey.
Orphaned as a toddler, Abigail Yager was taken in by a family of vampires and raised on one belief- Dark-Hunters are the evil who prey on both their people and mankind, and they must all be destroyed. While protecting her adoptive race, she has spent her life eliminating the Dark-Hunters and training for the day when she meets the man who killed her family: Jess Brady.
A gun in the hand is worth two in the holster...
Jess has been charged with finding and terminating the creature who’s assassinating Dark-Hunters. The last thing he expects to find is a human face behind the killings, but when that face bears a striking resemblance to the one who murdered him centuries ago, he knows something evil is going on. He also knows he’s not the one who killed her parents. But Abigail refuses to believe the truth and is determined to see him dead once and for all.
Brought together by an angry god and chased by ancient enemies out to kill them both, they must find a way to overcome their mutual hatred or watch as one of the darkest of powers rises and kills both the races they’ve sworn to protect.
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| I usually hate subliminal “horse” references, but that fits the other covers in the series. Something about this guy’s outfit (the half that he has on) reminds me of The Princess Bride, so he gets a thumb up just for making me imagine Wesley shirtless *happy*. | I like this too surprisingly. I think because it doesn’t feel exploitative like so many shirtless covers do. And who doesn’t love The Princess Bride? |
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| The placement of the tiger face is just too odd. My mind wants to make it a tattoo, but the image just seems to be floating there. | Yep. It looks a little creepy which I’m sure is not the look they were going for. |
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Description: The pages of history are written in the blood of the undead… Caroline Clifford’s bland life as a London tour guide flips upside down when her beloved uncle is brutally murdered at a Bulgarian archeological site. While traveling to recover his remains, she meets a man who corresponded with her uncle. Jude Barrett is a biochemist on a mission—to eradicate the world of vampires… At first, Caro is dismissive of Jude’s beliefs, but she can’t ignore the signs around her—the human bites on her uncle, the strange men following her, the anguished cries after sundown. More…
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| The style of this cover relies too much on the description in the upper left corner to mark this as “urban fantasy.” I missed the shadowy figure all together until I really studied the image. I would like less text, more mood. | I would have expected this to be a thriller not an UF based on the cover. |
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Description: Stephanie Rowe is an acclaimed author whose high-octane romances are attracting a growing readership. The third in a paranormal romance series packed with danger, sensuality and clever twists features Nigel Aquarian, a warrior with an artistic bent, and Natalie Fleming, a chocolatier who has a new lease on life. But her freedom comes with a dangerous gift she doesn't want. Nigel and his fellow warriors have only just escaped imprisonment when an even worse threat emerges. Natalie is the only woman who can help Nigel—but she's also the one most likely to bring him down.
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| The title ruined this one for me. Aside from the distracting thought “Hey, if the guy can hold fire, he can hold anything,” that font is entirely out of place. I know they were following the style of previous covers in the series, but that shade of yellow and the vines on the capital are very distracting with this image. | I’ve liked the previous two covers in this series, but this one seems almost feminine by comparison. I don’t know if it’s his pose or what. |
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| I was on the fence with this one, but the artwork tipped me towards a thumbs up. The title font and colors are terrible, however, even it gives the cover an oddly child-like note. A shame to splash that on top of such an intriguing image. | Love this. I really liked the cover from the first book, but this one is even better. She looks fierce and the background has me very intrigued. |
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| Oh, if only laughter equals a thumbs up. Where to start with this one. His posture? His wig-like hair? The fact that he’s standing in a butt-level, lavender cloud of what I presume is his own “magic”? The only nice thing I can think to say is that I applaud his wrist-watch, it’s the most unique cover model accessory I’ve seen in a long time. | You are killing me, Julia LOL. The hair is wrong. The expression on his face looks confused, and the colors are way too soft. |
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| The female cover model and the background are ok, they give a sense of the story and compliment the title pretty well. The male cover model looks like he’s CGI, I found that distracting enough that I couldn’t focus on anything but trying to figure out what’s wrong with his features. | Honestly, having just read book 1, I’m so excited to get my hands on this one that I’m not noticing any of the problems that bugged you. It looks good to me. |
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Description: In Angel’s Wolf a vampire becomes fascinated with the seductive angel who rules Louisiana. But all is not what it appears to be in her court. In Angels’ Judgment a hunter must track one of her own gone bad, while surviving the deadly tests placed in her way by the archangels themselves. Unexpected backup comes from a stranger who might just be the most lethal threat of all... Plus FIRST TIME IN PRINT In Angels' Pawn a vampire hunter faces off against two rival factions and the angel manipulating them both, and a vampire whose help is not entirely selfless... And NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED In Angels’ Dance an angel trapped in the mountain stronghold of the Refuge finds herself under siege by a warrior angel from a martial court.
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| I agree with the author, this cover is lovely enough to stop me in my tracks in a bookstore. The artwork is gorgeous, and the title copy does a great job of complementing it and not disrupting the sense of movement. | Yes! We can now forget about the unfortunate cover on ARCHANGEL’S BLADE. This is just so many kinds of pretty. |
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| I love the progression from book one. The battered, numbered mask on the cover of ASHES is wonderfully creepy and ominous. | See I think this takes creepy too far. It’s unsettling for me. |
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| I enjoyed reading DRAGON BOUND so much, the rest of this series could come wrapped in brown paper bags and I’d be pre-ordering. This cover is much, much better than STORM’S HEART but not quite as delicious as SERPENT’S KISS. Applaud the continuation of the t-shirt, though sorry we’ve regressed back to partial faces. | You read it? Write us a review :) I think one of the reasons I haven’t read them yet is because of the lackluster covers. SERPENT’S KISS is the best of the bunch, but None are great. |
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Description: Set against the backdrop of a Coney Island summer comes The Vicious Deep, the story of sixteen year old Tristan Hart whose life is turned upside down when the mermaids make an unscheduled return to land in search of their new king. When a sudden storm pulls Tristan from lifeguard duty into a deadly riptide, he discovers what he really is—a prince of the Sea Court. Turns out, his girlfriend hopping and talents as a swimmer aren’t caused by his teenage prime hormones after all. In this modern Arthurian tale with a twist, when all a guy wants to do is get The Girl and enjoy the freak show that is a Coney Island summer, Tristan has to fight for his life, the lives of his friends, and his humanity, if he still wants it, as he’s caught in a race for a throne that is as ancient as the gods.
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| This premise sounds interesting enough to put on the TBR list, but this cover is way too busy for me. The title font is good, but when coupled with the bleeding effect on both title and her lips, her eye shadow and scales and hair flying everywhere… it’s all just too much. One or two of these effects would have been much more effective. | Love the title font. Love the underwater floating hair. Love the shimmery scales. Love them all together. |
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Description: Dream-Hunter Lydia has been charged with the most sacred and dangerous of missions: To descend into the Nether Realm and find the missing god of dreams before he betrays the secrets that could kill her and her kind. What she never expects is to be taken prisoner by the Realm’s most vicious guardian… Seth’s time is running out. If he can’t hand over the entrance to Olympus, his own life and those of his people will be forfeit. No matter the torture, Seth hasn’t been able to break the god in his custody. Then there’s the beautiful Dream-Hunter Lydia: She isn’t just guarding the gates of Olympus—she’s holding back one of the world’s darkest powers. If she fails, an ancient curse will haunt the earth once more and no one will be safe. But evil is always seductive...
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| This cover is a big departure from the previous books in the series, and has a completely different feel to it. On it’s own I like it quite a bit, and wonder if a cover art reboot is in the works for books 1-4? | I like this cover, but unfortunately all of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s new covers all blur together for me. |
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