Welcome back to Cover Awe, where we discuss book covers we like!
Cover designed by Cassandra Garruzzo Mueller
Amanda: I support butts on covers. I think the softness of the painting with the blocky neon green text is a very good pairing!
Elyse: Butts, butts, butts.
Sarah: The first thing I heard about this book was book folks talking about the luscious and erotic cover. Boy, were they right.
Lara: Oh, I love this pairing too!
Cover design and illustration by Elizabeth Turner Stokes
Amanda: Oh I love this one.
Elyse: The colors on this are just gorgeous.
Sarah: This is another book where I heard about the cover first! The colors are incredible.
Lara: So rich and vibrant!
Cover design by Calderón Studio
Amanda: I love this Spanish edition. It’s more detailed for me than the original and I like the softness of the color palette.
Sarah: I love miniatures. Like wee teeny cereal boxes, tiny furniture, clay sculpted food – I love it. So I love this cover and I could look at it for hours.
Am I the only one transfixed by miniature human things? That’s still a hobby for sure.
Lara: The muted hues are really working for me.
Cover design by Jen Edwards
Elyse: Fuck yeah, she is.
Amanda: Apparently this is a retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo, which makes me even more interested!
Sarah: Holy crap. That’s limitless eye candy.
Lara: The cover is gorgeous but that title is perfection.
EL SECRETO’s palette and style are giving “1970s fantasy novel cover” and that’s all right by me.
The cover of I’M MOSTLY HERE TO ENJOY MYSELF is from Francois Boucher’s painting, The Odalisque—supposedly representing a woman in a Turkish harem. He painted several versions of this subject: I think this one is called the Brunette Odalisque. Nudity was fine in the 1700s as long as you slapped an “exotic” or classical/mythological context on it, lol.
I wasn’t fully caffeinated when I opened this up, so I was expecting covers full of BUTTS. I really couldn’t figure out where the butt was on the Nine Tailed cover, because I didn’t think the fox’s butt was that special [eye-roll emoji aimed at self].
LisaM, me too though I do have the excuse of being very tired and on Tramadol, still . . .
Sarah, I love them too, I inherited a teeny tiny toilette set, all under a couple of centimeters/ three-quarters of an inch in size, cream with blue lining, totally useless apart from making me go ‘awwwww’.
The ‘For She Is Wrath’ cover and title are fantastic, and effective, I want to read the book.
EL SECRETO’s cover reminds me a lot of the cover of TRUST by Hernan Diaz, only a lot better.
(Also, am I the only one disappointed that there weren’t more butts in this post?)
Was definitely expecting more butts!
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is one of my favorite books, so I checked out FOR SHE IS WRATH from the library based on that comparison, but I bounced hard. In the first few pages, the narrator attempts an escape from prison, kills a guard (which is described in some detail over a paragraph or so; realistic, but not what I want to read), and then gets caught by a prison official who loves torture. At that point, I decided I was done.
Was totally looking for butts. Fox did have cute little butt, but not the kind I was looking for. Oh, and yes, miniatures are so addicting! Book nooks are the worst!
re: Butts
This really took me back. When my eldest daughter was a preteen, she watched the Dirty Dancing video multiple times. Her (5 yr.) younger sister would cheerfully watch it with her, waiting for the tastefully filmed love scene between Gray and Swayze, when she would point at the screen, holler Butt! and giggle like a maniac. This became a family tease topic through many years.
@Castironu
I think the elements you mentioned would have put me off the Wrath book as well, especially the torture. I must confess though to a fondness for seriously kickass heroines who use their devious brilliance to overcome sick twisted villains. I gobbled up the original three Lisbeth Salander books and Carol O’Connell’s Mallory series. Both series featured sone gruesome violence, but the FMCs were fascinating.
Beautiful covers