Welcome back to Cover Awe!
Cover illustration by Felix Abel Klaer
Amanda: Oh I love this one!
Lara: Her face shows exactly how I felt 12 minutes ago when an annoying colleague emailed me an annoying question. It’s perfection!
Sarah: Oh wow, that is stunning. I love covers I can’t stop looking at.
Elyse: The detail in this is incredible.
Cover illustration by Jekaterina Budryte
Amanda: Love the color palette here!
Sarah: Oh that’s extremely alluring. The color palette is divine I agree!
Elyse: I also like that it’s not just some illustrated elements thrown on a cover, it’s telling you a story.
Amanda: Great point! I definitely prefer illustrated covers that tell us something more!
Elyse: The cat has a little hat on. That is all.
Shana: This is the best cover I’ve seen in ages. All books needs cats in purple hats
Amanda: Is the cat secretly a shapeshifting wizard and that’s its magical staff?!
Sarah: I need to know everything about this cat. Every detail. Go.
Cover design by Alice Claire Coleman
Elyse: That is so detailed and gorgeous. I would hang that on my wall.
Tara: Wow, that’s really striking.
Sneezy: That’s so clever! AND SHINY!
Elyse: That little bit of red is so striking.
Sarah: There’s a bit of a trend of referencing tarot card imagery within book cover art and I really like it.
Please let’s have more rageful femmes on book covers!
No one’s going to mention the kitty cravat? Anyone can drop a stylish hat on their head, but knotting up a sweet little bow? That’s a talent.
Raise your hand if you read the last title as “The Evocation of St. Gibson”. Appropriately enough, since it definitely evokes the Hanged Man. If I remember rightly, it means resignation to your fate.
The cat has a little hat on.
When a picture makes you gasp in delight, into Cover Awe it goes!
these are so wonderful!
I feel like it’s so rare to see a historical with long hair on the guy, even when it’s a Georgian era book (we also rarely get the flashier clothes on the guy for that era too, which is all such a shame). I approve.
Now I kinda want a novel where the hero is a were-tabby. Not a were-lion or were-tiger, or anything over 20lb. Just a big old cinnamon-roll fluffy coon cat who just wants to snuggle on the sofa with you and share a tuna-melt. The Duke of Floof.