Welcome back to Cover Awe, where we look at some eye-catching covers!
Cover art by Paul Stinson
Cover design by Daniella Medina
Cover photography by David Wagner Photography
Kiki: These are two deeply, DEEPLY, beautiful people.
Sarah: I have many thoughts, and some of them are cheekbones, my gosh. This is REGAL AF.
Amanda: The lighting is top notch on this one.
Sneezy: This is so DREAMY!!!!
Cover illustration by Poppy Magda
Cover design by Lizzy Bromley
Maya: CUTE
Amanda: I say “so cute supa cute” just like Penny from Happy Endings all the time and no one understands me.
Maya: SAME!!!!!!
Sneezy: I love that cover!!!!
I can’t get over the twining daisies and the shy sneaky trying-to-hold-hands bit.
Sarah: This is absolutely adorable and I love how much it communicates at a glance.
Cover illustration by Raymond Sebastien
Maya: Big hoops!!!!
Amanda: This series has the COOLEST damn covers. I think the first book was my favorite cover of last year when we did the post.
Carrie: She has the best covers, consistently. Love the colors and the contrast in fashion style, and those glasses are adorable!
Maya: Yup yup! Loving all the purple!!
Carrie: And the way the faces are framed by the branches.
Tara: I just keep staring at it because it’s so beautiful.
Sarah: Right there with you, Tara.
Sneezy: JESUS that‘s gorgeous!!!!
There’s so much going on, and so love all of it! Especially the in-love-and-going-to-get-shit-done-together chemistry of the two characters!
Cover illustration by Nabi H. Ali
Cover design by Kelley Brady
Maya: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Carrie: That blast of pink! That ponytail! This sparks joy!
Sneezy: AAAAAAHHH!!!!! This is so CUUUTE!!!!!
Amanda: I love the little mischievous look on her face.
Sarah: This person Is Up to Things and I am curious about all of them. This is such a great moment of action captured in an illustration. I love it.
That Erica Ridley cover is perfection.
Okay, I cannot go back to work because that look! That is some five alarm smolder coming off that man. Wow! I’m just going to sit here and admire.
We can upload pictures with our comments now? Cool. I’m fresh out, but maybe next time.
As beautiful as the Ridley cover is, I can’t really like it because there’s so little connection between the models that they look like they were photographed separately. They’re both stunningly gorgeous, and the costuming is fantastic (I don’t even like pink and yet I approve!), but the energy between them just… isn’t. I need my cover models to look like they’re aware the other person is in the room. By contrast, the Bayron and the Lippincott/Derrick covers both manage to sell that connection even though in one case they’re both clearly Very Busy with Very Important Things and in the other we can’t even see their upper bodies.