Cover Chatter
Books & Music: Covers Collide
The cover on Bennett Madison’s forthcoming September Girls is spectacular, and when I first saw it, familar. I knew immediately and exactly where I’d previously seen the image: On the cover of Parade of Lights’ Born To Live, Born To Love EP (as seen on iTunes). I love the upbeat and infectious “Talk to You” […]
Got You Covered: The Turning (by Francine Prose)
This cover. It does things to me. Why? Do you see that glorious building? That’s why. And the way the title takes its shape according to the lines and angles of the roof? That’s why, too. The fog rising off the water? The lights burning in the windows? The desaturated sky? Why, why, and why. […]
Got You Covered: Falling Kingdoms (by Morgan Rhodes)
Where do I even begin? Because to my eyes, this cover is rather glorious. The pose, the two-fisted daggers, the hooded cloak. Not to mention the glimpse of a ring on the figure’s right hand, the wisps of smoke, the blend of blues and greens with that illuminated white. And how wondrous are the ‘k’ […]
Regarding Reissues: Edgar Rice Burroughs’s John Carter of Mars
Last Friday found me in Barnes and Noble, hoping to get my hands on the March issue of Empire Magazine, which features – as you could probably have guessed – news of The Avengers. It also found me dejected when, yet again, I was denied. (One of these days, Cap cover, my wanting hands will […]
Laini Taylor Cover Reveal: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
I have to fess up: I’ve been waiting for this. The cover of Laini Taylor’s new book, Daughter of Smoke and Bone. And – even moreso – for the summary. I’ve been waiting, and waiting, and it’s felt like forever. But it hasn’t been forever, of course. Forever’ll step in now when I have to […]
It’s Got the Hook: Upcoming YA Covers
The first for its grainy, flashlit pyramid; the second for its dreamy, rose petaled loveliness; and the third because it is pure magic. The lure of these covers is too strong to resist.
Cover Love & Must Have: Between Two Ends – David Ward
Publisher’s Summary: “When Yeats and his parents visit his grandmother’s creepy old house, Yeats reunites a pair of pirate bookends and uncovers the amazing truth: Years ago, Yeats’s father traveled into The Arabian Nights with a friend, and the friend, Shari, is still stuck in the tales. Assisted by the not-always-trustworthy pirates, Yeats must navigate […]
Cover Love: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
Publisher’s Summary: “Mara wakes up from a coma with no memory of the accident that caused the deaths of her best friend, boyfriend, and boyfriend’s sister. The doctors tell her parents that starting over in a new state, a new school will be good for her and to let the memories come back on their […]
