I don’t think we’ve had a Cover Awe in a minute! This is where we keep the snarking to a minimum and share covers with elements we like.
Artist credit: Gregg Gulbronson
Designer credit: Amy Halperin
Amanda: I might be the minority but I like this cover. I’m also biased when a hero has chest hair.
Elyse: I do enjoy a hirsute man.
Amanda: And I just like the whole “secret cuddle grove in the mountains.”
Carrie: I love the lush plants and the bright colors – it really stands out against all those indoor Regency covers.
And I also like the fact that he has some chest hair!
Lara: It is my Vanessa Hudgens Netflix movie dreams on a book cover! (Truly, I love her Netflix Christmas movies)
Artist credit: Courtney “Seage” Howlett
Designer credit: Richard Aquan
Elyse: Oh that purple color!
Carrie: Colors and swirls and subtle tentacle imagery, oh my!
Amanda: Isn’t it lovely?
Catherine: I don’t know what’s going on on this cover, but I love it. The colours are just gorgeous.
Sneezy: THIS IS BEAUTIFUUUL!!!!!
CharlotteB: It reminds me of a Chris Ofili painting. Love.
Artist credit: Farjana Yasmin
Amanda: This is the first illustrated historical romance cover I’ve seen. AND I’M COMPLETELY IN LOVE WITH IT.
Elyse: I love it.
Carrie: Unusual, eye-catching, and fun!
Catherine: This is stunning. I love the sepia-toned London silhouette in the background, and the bright, bold figures in front of it.
Sarah: I’m still questioning whether this works for me, but if you show me that image I know exactly what author and what title so clearly it worked on several levels
Sneezy: It almost looks like a lady hijacked a statue’s horse just as the rider and horse came to life!
Lara: Bonus musical interlude … Waaaatch OUT… you might get what you’re after
Coooooool BABIES… strange but not a stranger…I’m an or-di-na-ry guy … BRINGING DOWN THE DUKE
CharlotteB: I keep assuming this is going to be a romance set at a Regency reenactment weekend, rather than a traditional historical. If the book is a traditional historical, I don’t think it works. If it’s a historically dubious madcap comedy, I think it does. I do love it from a design perspective.
Amanda: It’s definitely a traditional historical romance, but I would also read the hypothetical book you described too!
Artist credit: Paul Stinson
Designer credit: Guido Caroti
Photographer credit: Michael Frost
Amanda: There’s this painted, dreamy quality to it. It reminds me a lot of old school covers.
Catherine: Actually, it reminds me a bit of the Loretta James Miss Wonderful cover – something about all the tiny flowers. So lovely. (Though am I allowed just one teeny tiny snark about the veins in his hand? Such a shame on an otherwise perfect cover…)
Sarah: this cover reminds me of another historical, where the protagonists are on a field of Texas bluebonnets. Is that the Loretta Chase?
CarrieS: Those daisies look so soft they almost make me forget my hay fever.
Thank you for including the names of the people whose hard work make these covers the lovely things they are.
Oh, and count me amongst those who are totally there for the chest hair. In fact, as the Bitchery’s self-appointed, in-house, cover-model maven, I’d like to share my favorite hairy-chest cover (no waxing or manscaping here):
https://www.amazon.com/Keeping-Him-childhood-friends-lovers-ebook/dp/B07HHHB7GW/ref=mp_s_a_1_15?keywords=kennedy+fox+kindle+books&qid=1575301219&sprefix=kennedy+fox&sr=8-15
Check out this awesome cover! I love it. Daykeeper by Ran Walker.
https://smile.amazon.com/Daykeeper/dp/B07ZP3SYTY/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=daykeeper+ran&qid=1575330012&s=audible&sr=1-1
or
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39924767-daykeeper?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=bkOi9OdnBu&rank=1
I am also digging the Snow White on a romance novel vibes on Never Kiss a Duke.
I hope this hasn’t been mentioned in a previous post, but the cover for Mary Balogh’s SOMEONE TO HONOR is lovely. A lilypad pond background (Monet anyone?) with a woman in soft yellow. Very nice….
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NK4K5L2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?
The scene-setting on the Megan Frampton book is very nice. I also appreciate that he is losing his shirt but she is still fully clothed; it’s a much more in-control-of-this heroine than one usually sees.
I agree about the chest hair. I will only say that anyone who would describe the hero in the top one as hirsute has clearly not seen my husband without his shirt….
@Jane: I wish I could “heart” your comment more than once!