Welcome back to Cover Awe!
Cover design by George Towne
Amanda: I really love the covers for this series! The rich gem tones with interesting objects (and that little frog!) are beautiful.
Sarah: I love this cover. I love the colors, I love the jewel tones, as Amanda said, I love the type treatment, and the marbled background. I could decorate a whole room based on these colors. SO lush.
Sneezy: Agree! It’s also really clever to use texture and subtle patterns to draw the eyes.
Amanda: It reminds me a lot of the art style from pulp fiction covers!
Tara: I see it! But with fresh, striking colours.
Sarah: Every time I look at this cover I see new things. The stains on the dress. The earring. The shape (??) of the shadow – it’s SO interesting.
Sneezy: Covers like this make me want to believe I’m made of sterner stuff than I am and the next thing I know I’m awake at three in the morning wondering how to hide under my bed without moving.
Cover art by Imogen Buchanan
Sarah: This cover is gorgeous. The artist has really captured that sort of twilight glow with the lilies and the ribbon. It’s stunning.
And the copy sounds rather creepy in an unhinged kind of way.
Carrie: Ooooooh!
Sneezy: Dear lord the veins in the leaves plus the vines makes everything so disquieting.
Cover design by Youness Elh
From Gloriamarie: I think this is beautiful. The lines, the colors all work for me.
Elyse: Oh that’s beautiful.
Tara: I really love this one.
Sarah: This is gorgeous art nouveau style art. Well, I think it’s nouveau but I may be wrong. This tweet lives rent-free in my brain, however:
I’ve noticed a LOT more art nouveau style covers, too. Tendrils and filigree for everyone!
Sneezy: It looks like it has art nouveau elements to me too. I’m glad that style is getting some more love! It’s one of my favs! I love the sort of careful science illustration part of it too. The two styles are used really beautifully together here!
@sneezy – Same to the 3am paralyzed but desperate reaction. Can’t read horror or ghost stories for that exact reason.
That Glennmare Girls copy gives me vibes of that one book with the college students who murder/sacrifice their friend.
It looks like teal blue and purple are our early front runners for cover color of 2025. And yes, the moth cover is very Art Nouveau! All of these are so beautiful, especially those last two.
All beautiful.
Yes to Art Nouveau. Found beautiful Art Nouveau jewelry from a relative while going through the estate and did a deep dive last year.
If I had more disposable income, I would offer commissions to George Towne and Imogen Buchanan to design historical fiction book covers. Their designs are lovely. I think historical fiction covers are being left far behind when compared with the interesting and beautiful designs for other fiction genres.
Fascinating how the first three have some similar colors but such different feels. Even with the flowers on the first and third books, book one looks cozy while the third one looks disquieting, as Sneezy said.