Welcome back to Cover Awe!
Carrie: Oooh that’s a one click right there
Sneezy: WOW!
AND it’s Rebecca Roanhorse!
Shana: I’m obsessed with this cover
Sarah: I hope the artist who worked on this knows we’re all loving everything about it.
Elyse: Tentacles make everything better.
Cover design by Karri Klawiter
From Lillian P: I really like this cover.
Elyse: The blue is gorgeous.
Sarah: I love the hood and how she’s looking at the reader.
Amanda: I’m a sucker for an image within an image.
Shana: The smoke merging with the hair is gorgeous.
Sarah: The tilt of the city scene into the profile of a person is the exact right amount of off-kilter. I love how the profile is pretty still but the image inside is full of movement.
Elyse: This makes me nostalgic for the Gothics from the late 70s and early 80s that I read as a kid.
Cover design by Jack Johnson and Katie Anderson
Sarah: Eye candy! Filigree! And queer colors, too.
Amanda: Yes! It definitely signifies “lush and rich” to me.
Sarah: “Lush” is a very good word.
Amanda: It reminds me of the era of erotica/BDSM covers where it’s just a tie or cufflinks to signify wealth.
so many beautiful colors!
The blue is my least favorite part of VOICE — for me it’s the green and orange set in the warm dark background (altho maybe they need the blue for best effect).
ROOK looks like the lighting in a Mario Bava film! That multiple image is giving lots of vibes.
I hate to look ignorant, but what are the queer colors on DAWN? I see mostly gray with some pink.
Melanie Cellier has a great cover designer and all her novels (sweet romantic YA fantasy) have delicious covers. The covers for the Spoken Mage series (Voice of…) are good, but the ones for her others are even prettier, I think.