Welcome back to Cover Awe!
Elyse: Okay so the stairs would be digging into her back, but I love how different this cover is in terms of composition and color.
Claudia: Beautiful!!
Amanda: It gives me the feeling of it’s just the two of them hanging out after everyone has cleared out following a party.
Sarah: That is a very relaxed and intimate image. I agree, it’s like they’re both thinking, “FINALLY everyone is gone. In related news, stairs are difficult.”
Sneezy: Ah that sweep of the gown down the steps…
Sarah: She’s a golem if I’m reading her forehead correctly. It says emet in Hebrew.
Amanda: Correct!
The description calls it Frankenstein meets Inglorious Bastards
Carrie: Ooooooh. It’s a Carrie trap!
Sarah: That is a stunning illustration.
Sneezy: The lines and movement are BEAUTIFUL! I love how most of the colours pull cool to give it a slightly eerie feeling.
Cover illustration by Mike Pape
Amanda: New cover and I AM IN LOVE
Elyse: Omg I love that
Amanda: That is a perfect “love drunk” face.
Tara: They are so cute!
Sarah: I love that the covers were good to start with and now they’re awesome. What a cool visual development of her success.
Carrie: They kept all the elements I loved!
Sneezy: This just makes me smile.
Cover illustration by Fernanda Suarez
Amanda: That’s definitely Steve from Stranger Things right?
Elyse: Yes
Amanda: Okay cool. Just checking!
I love the hand gripping the sweater vest
Sneezy: Haha, the stack of books!
Sarah: I love his hair, I love the strength of her forearm gripping his sweater, I love that she is clearly in charge here. This is terrific.
Wrath Becomes Her is SO GOOD. Lady golem punches lots of Nazis while considering the value of life and living during one of the darkest parts of WWII. It also…for lack of a better description, Vera is *allowed* to be angry, it’s *good* that she is angry and wishes to render the bad guys unto utter desolation, and how often do female protagonists get that degree of acceptance?
Wicked Designs has a very similar color scheme/vibe to the cover of The Truth About Love and Dukes along with The Lady He Lost, both of which I kinda read for the covers and then found terribly mediocre (if only there were a helpful aphorism guiding people away from making reading decisions based on cover art). Looking back through my Goodreads, there are actually several books with the rich deep red + teal combo; must be a mini-trend?
I think the thing about the last cover is that it reminds me of the cover for “Love Overdue” by Pamela Morsi, which I haaaaated with all the fiery flames of a thousand suns, so I’m put off by association (if that makes sense).
How ridiculously long is that red dress, though? Or is she just much taller than the hero (which I would totally be here for!). The skirt extends like a foot past the end of his legs, which is a lot of fabric to handle.
Cover for Truly, Madly, Deeply leaves my awe totally unstruck. That vixen is literally STANDING ON BOOKS. For shame!
Aside from that, the fuzzy, purplish palette, mostly neutral background, and strangely symmetrical composition seems kinda boring to me.
These are so lovely.
@PamG – Yes! Get your lilac chunky heels off the hardcovers, please! (I admit I did use a copy of Foucault’s “History of Madness” as a dining table for my cat last year when she was on cage rest with a broken leg). Does she not knows what it costs to replace reference books?
Nice to see Steve getting other gigs though!
I would have trouble standing in those heels on the floor. Add that rather unbalanced looking stack of books and I might last about 2.5 seconds. Maybe she has magic powers!