Welcome back to Cover Awe!
Cover art and design by Daniela Medina
Amanda: This came out last year and I literally heard nothing about it!
Sarah: I saw this and said to myself, “Shana will want her earrings.”
Sneezy: Ugh THE COLOURS! I aspire to this level of sophistication in colour theory
There are SO MANY bold elements in colours and shapes, and it all comes together so harmoniously!
Also what eyeshadow is she wearing?
Shana: I am having serious earring envy.
Sarah: The part where the dangle is from the back? SO cool.
Sarah: This is very cute.
Amanda: I love an illustrated cover where the people are interacting, rather than just being posed in the same space.
Lara: That green is really working for me.
Sneezy: Awww I want to be under an umbrella like this with my crush too!
Cover design by Lisa Marie Pompilio
Amanda: I love the colors here. It also gives me the vibe of those optical illusions: “Do you see an old lady or a fancy duck?”
Sarah: That made me snort laugh. “Beautiful lady or swan about to fuck your shit up?”
Lara: Oh, I love this cover. I like the subtle stripes in the green half
Sneezy: I love ALL THINGS this artist is doing to give off fantasy vibes.
Cover illustration by Holly Ovenden
Sarah: This cover is really charming.
Amanda: This design definitely speaks to the reading community – nailed it!
Lara: I want to bathe in that cover.
Sneezy: This is just so charming and lovely!
Am I the only literalist bothered by A Feather so Black being gold? I do see the swan but it gives more of a skunk vibe overall. I shall choose to believe it’s a romance between Odile and Pepe le Pew because I will take anything over a Leda romance.
This summer’s Summer Reading theme is Color Our World! These are beautiful representations of the theme as we gear up to it. Please highlight more colorful covers for the summer! It may also be something to think about for this year’s BINGO card.
@kkw ~ I also noticed the lack of a black feather!
These are indeed lovely covers.
those subtle stripes in the green half of A Feather So Black are trees! Some absolutely lovely covers here today.
Looks like Holly Ovenden has done a number of covers I’d admired (like the new Christie collection)
I love the cover of Venessa Kelley’s WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON. It is art, not a cartoon. As Amanda said, this is a cover where the people are interacting, and the curve of their bodies is just gorgeous. Turns out Kelley has done lots of covers but this is her debut novel.
https://www.venessakelley.com/