Welcome back to Cover Awe! This is monthly post where we talk about pretty covers and their eye-catching details.
Amanda: Need that lip color info, stat!
Sarah: Wow. That’s all I got. Scintillating, I know.
Elyse: I’m torn between loving this cover and knowing how hard it’s going to be to wash that glitter off.
CarrieS: Had me at glitter.
Amanda: Gotta get me a lightning dress.
Sarah: Good plan.
Elyse: I need this dress as well. I feel like the lightning one would be for casual Friday. This is more Monday appropriate
CarrieS: Love the color
Amanda: While it’s not an “in your face cover,” I love how fucking sweet it is. Like my heart grew three sizes when I saw it.
Sarah: Oh, my, that is unique – so tender and quiet and intimate.
Amanda: It looks like they just dozed off while talking.
RHG: Aw.
Elyse: Omg I love that. Also because I love naps so much.
CarrieS: That cover has problems but the snuggle napping wins the day.
Amanda: You just KNOW there’s going to be some asskicking in this book.
Sarah: And I am here for it, most particularly because the asskicking is NOT in boots with high heels. Common in cover imagery, terrible for running through the forest.
Elyse: I WANT THOSE BOOTS!
CarrieS: These books are made for archery, and that’s just what they’ll do/gonna wear those boots to archery, and shoot arrows at you.
OK, I have been an adoring mostly-lurker on SBTB for the last TEN YEARS and it is so thrilling to see my new book here. Thanks for the mention (and I have been searching for boots to match the cover since I first saw it!).
@Betsy: When you find them, let us know! I’m in Florida, so boot-wearing is pretty much restricted to the five days of the year I have to put on a sweater, but I WANT THEM! If nothing else, for Ren Fairs & Halloween.
So I couldn’t find the exact same boots, and if I had to guess I’d say someone combined two pairs of boots irl or through photoshop. If you google “sharpspirit steampunk mad max boots” one of the first images/shopping results is very close. Same buckles, same curved toe thing but with a bit of gold, same colors, BUT no laces, 3 pockets instead of 1, one leather strap at the top instead of 2, and some lcontrasting detail where the laces would be, though you can see a bit of that detail on the cover boots. The same site has a pair of boots titled “cognac brown lace up boots” that have the same laces (the folded over leather bits instead of a hole with a grommet) and two straps at the top, but they’re much simpler and all one color.
It’s a bummer about not finding an exact match, but seeing how close the details are of those two boots combined I’m thinking maybe an exact match doesn’t exist.
@Betsy, congrats! And I love those boots. I’m in Rome, where boot-wearing season hasn’t quite started, though. Love the lightning dress – very “Frozen.”
I grew up hearing “don’t judge a book by its cover” over and over again – frequently in non-book contexts. But that cover on Linda Rae Sande’s book…I’m judging and buying. What a fresh way to portray romance.
Those boots! I love boots, but with a high arch and chunky calves I can’t actually get my feet into most, but those, oh yes.
@Amanda: I think the cover model for B. Love’s book is wearing a shade from Pat McGrath’s Lust 004 lip kit (possibly Vermillion Venom).
It looks very similar to
Woops, the link was left out.
The cover model’s lipstick in “Will You Still Want Me?” is similar to Naomi Campbell’s at the 2016 VMAs (see https://www.refinery29.com/2016/08/121515/naomi-campbell-vmas-pat-mcgrath-glitter-lipstick).
I also love the Boot cover. Very Robin Hood
@LML: That Sande book cover sold me too. You can also get that book in a three-book boxed set for only a dollar more (at least at B&N). She also has some free books and since this is a new author for me, I just picked up all of them.
I’m wearing similar boots today, minus the straps around the calves. Vintage Fluevogs.
Now I want to read that book.
@Betsy, that cover is WORKING IT. Get me to that book (and those boots and the woman who wears those boots)! 🙂