Welcome back to Cover Awe, where we look at book covers that have caught our eye.
Cover design and illustration by Olya Kirilyuk
Sarah: Filigree with stuff – this time a fox, runes, and ravens
Amanda: Filigree is having a moment
Sarah: So is stuff!
Claudia: Stuff is like disco — never died!!
Lara: The colour combo is really working for me!
Sneezy: Me too! It has such a fairy tale quality to it!
Cover illustration by Feifei Ruan
Amanda: Any cover with a horse gets bonus points? I also love art style and how it pairs well with the book description.
Sarah: That is truly gorgeous. I love the layers in the illustration!
Lara: The brushstroke water is gorgeous!
Sneezy: Everything about this cover is amazing.
Cover illustration by Lila Selle, based on the original illustration by Sam Palencia of Ink and Laurel
Amanda: I love the thematic covers of this series – two people whose faces are obscured by something.
But of course, you just know that halfway through the series, publishing is going to change everything and mess with the aesthetic and nothing matches anymore.
Also…are these good? Is it closed door? Please tell me more!
Sneezy: Ooh I’m going to check out the other ones!
Sarah: He’s got the tree for the mirror so the car don’t smell!
Seriously this is adorable.
Lara: this is a cover that would make me pick it up at the library
Cover images by Teresa Colucci/Gettyimages and VJ Dunraven/Period Images
Amanda: Obsessed with this jacket
Elyse: Yesssss
Claudia: Incidentally, what’s the ruby award??
Amanda: Took some digging because there are other Ruby Awards out there, but it’s the Romantic Book of the Year award by Romance Writers of Australia.
Sarah: We are going to have to have a dance off for the jacket, ma’am.
Lara: That purple is LUSH!
Sneezy: SO lush! And you KNOW they coordinated their outfits beforehand!
The Maddison Michaels cover is giving me very strong vibes of the purple one (hazelnut + caramel) from the Quality Street bagged chocolates range. I am 100% here for that!
Love how The Heiress Swap took a clinch cover and made it feel romantic but also… lived in? Realistic is not quite right, but the way they’re tilting towards each other and almost kissing feels cinematic. Like we’ve just freeze framed a really good moment on a BBC costume drama and giving ourselves a moment to squee with excitement. 🙂
Thumbs for all of these, but that is the one that really stopped me in my tracks.
@JillQ: You’re totally right! It really is like a freeze frame of some hot chemistry in a costume drama! Perfect way to describe that.
I really like Ink and Laurel’s distinctive covers, but also recommend the B.K. Borison Lovelight Farms series–they’re charming. They’re in the currently well-populated field of contemporary small-town romances, but Borison does them very, very well. Kind of like those covers–just slightly unusual and smart enough to make them stand out.
I love the Maddison Michael’s cover, but I wish the hero’s hand didn’t look so stiff. It seems superimposed and not as “real” as the rest of the picture.
@Mabry
re: Heiress Swap
Love the saturated purple, the jacket, & the tilt of the blonde cover model’s head, but got stuck on the notion that
some AI decided to uh. . .”pull cover boy’s finger.”
Mabry I was just thinking that I liked that he isn’t grabbing the heroine roughly, though he’s quite clear about his desire it looks as if he is letting her set the pace. 🙂
I just checked out the NK Borison series and the second book, In the Weeds, is currently on sale for $1.99. The cover is very similar, except the couple is obscured by a lovely bouquet of summer flowers.
Sorry, that’s B.K. Borison.
Those are so gorgeous.