Gah, you all know how much I love book covers, so I literally look forward to this post all year.
I didn’t go quite as crazy as I did last year, but I suppose I went crazy enough. But hey, it’s the end of the year! And covers are pretty to look at! And people worked hard to make these! So the more, the merrier, I say. But, though I love all of these, I did pick ten to discuss and managed to narrow it down to five ultimate favorites, so let’s get to it!
Berserker by Emmy Laybourne
I love how all the white space makes the red blood all the more striking, and the way the faces of the characters and the Old West setting is all blended in is so pretty.
The Glamour Thieves by Don Allmon
I love how much this one matches the characters and the story and has so much detail. The orc has tusks and everything!
The Six-Gun Tarot by R. S. Belcher
This cover has some amazing artwork, and that kid and the jade eye do play a big part in the story.
Succubus by Brandon Varnell
The artwork on this one is so pretty and also so detailed. I mean, look at that silver suit!
Tales of the High Court by Megan Derr
All of these covers are just so bright and colorful and striking with an interesting use of foreground and background, and the overall design of them is great.
My Favorite #1:
Hell Divers Series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
These covers represent the story so perfectly, are so detailed, and just look so kickass. They really capture the intensity and are beautiful to boot.
My Favorite #2:
Dominion Series by Lissa Kasey
The artwork on all of these is soooo beautiful! And I love how well it portrays the characters.
My Favorite #3:
The Human Wilderness by S.H. Livernois
I absolutely love the design of this one. I love that it’s slanted, I love the font, I love the silhouettes, and I love the contrast of the people at the top vs. the zombie-like monsters at the bottom.
My Favorite #4:
Scarlet & the White Wolf Series by Kirby Crow
These covers just give me feels??? I felt connected to these characters even before I started reading the books, and I just love the artwork as well.
My Favorite #5:
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
This one is simplistic with just a hand, but it’s STRIKING with the pale skin against the blue background, and the font is gorgeous. It’s a beautiful cover with an overall great design.
Ooh nice. Berserker is a good cover and I like Six Gun Tarot too. The Glamour Thieves has nice use of color, from a distance I would almost think it a cyberpunk-ish type of cover. And the Deadgirl cover I like too, they look badass.
the Tales of the High Court covers may be the most visually striking to me, I like that each cover has a different background or vista and they all look great. The Heart of the Lost star is clearly my favorite.
Ahh they’re all great ones to me, haha. The Glamour Thieves is cyberpunk, a cyberpunk-urban fantasy mash-up thing, so you see? I was right about how well it matches the story 😛 I agree the girls on Deadgirl look super badass! Which also matches the story.
Those are beautiful covers! Very striking. Lost Star is my fave of the three too.
I just love seeing a bunch of gorgeous covers all together like that! You chose some really good ones?
I love how it looks when I put them all together too XD Thanks!
I love those covers from Tales of the High Court. They are stunning! Were the books as good as the covers?
I agree! And yes, I’m really enjoying that series so far!
I love book covers! Vicious is a good one. I’m loving Swallow You Whole too.
-Lauren
What’s funny is that I disliked the cover of Vicious for a long time until I finally looked closer at it and realized it’s actually pretty cool lol.
The Coldest Girl and Berserker are two of my favourites in this list — but on the other hand you’ve given me some titles to go look up!
Those two are beautiful, and yay, hope you find some to add to your tbr!
I like the Hell Divers covers…I plan to read the first one soon. Oh I meant to say, if the power change thing hasn’t helped, the other suggestions I saw were about stopping some plug ins like the Pinterest button as some of these don’t go well with updates and might need updated themselves.
I love the Hell Diver covers! And the books. Oh, thanks! I’ll try that in a bit, it’s worth a shot.
Excellent selections. I was partial to the Hell Divers covers as well. They really do look pretty awesome. the Coldest Girl and Berserker also caught my eye as well. But it’s cool that some of them fit so perfectly with the story, as you said that The Glamour Thieves does. That’s something I always wonder about when I’m looking at a book cover–does this match the story? Sometimes it does, other times it is wildly different.
Thanks! Those are all great ones, and most of these covers fit their story really well. That’s definitely an important aspect to covers!
I was excited to see which covers you would feature today! Nice list! And you can really see your love for artwork covers in this list.
The Tales of the High Court covers look great and it’s a style you don’t see often, but it totally works! They have that clear fantasy feel and I like the style with a lone figure looking out from a doorway to what lies beyond.
Juniper unraveling also has a great cover, if a bit creepy.
That Berserker cover is very cleverly done with the characters being in the blood splatters.
Thanks! You know what I like XD and it does always seem to show on my lists!
Those High Courts ones are great ones, and they seem to be popular with everyone! But you’re right, it’s not a type of look you see often on covers, which makes them stand out more.
Juniper Unraveling does have a darker vibe to it.
The Berserker one is def clever! I love how it looks.
Yes, they’re all GORGEOUS. My fave is the Dominion series. Love the graphics. Awesome. ❤️?
I agree! And I’m glad someone else loves the art on those covers as much as I do!
I’ve only read Vicious but I have a few of these on my Kindle. Great choices! I really like the Scarlet and the White Wolf & the Dominion covers. The characters seem to be expressing a lot of emotion.
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I love the artwork on both of those, and yes! Seeing the characters expressing so much emotion like that makes me feel more connected to them.
All of the books you chose have a color scheme in common and it looks so pretty all together. 🙂
To tell you the truth, I’m a perfectionist, so I always try to arrange the covers in these posts so that colors match in covers that are near each other and everything looks good visually XD
These are lovely! I think my favorites are Tales of the High Court, they’re so pretty. And Berserker really fit the book quite well, for sure. Unhooked is really nice too. I think I just saw somewhere that Viscous is getting a new cover, one that I think goes with the ADSOM books? Great picks!
I saw the new Vicious cover! The ironic thing is that, for the longest time, I didn’t like this cover. I only recently looked at it closer and realized it’s actually pretty cool and artsy… just in time for it to get a new cover lol. But yeah, the Tales of the High Court books are awesome! Thanks!
The Human Wilderness is SUCH a striking cover! I love the people on top and the zombies (or creatures or whatever) down below. That cover literally makes me want to read the book—I’ll have to go find your review to see if it lives up to it!
I’m glad someone agrees with me about that one! It really is so striking and well designed!
I love a striking cover but it’s made infinitely better by tying in the story somehow. I’ve looked over your list a few times and, without having read any of these, every time I am drawn to those Kirby Crow covers.
I agree! And almost all of these do tie into their story pretty well, I think. I love those Kirby Crow covers too! They were a big part of what drew me to read the books.
Hoping to read Berserker soon!
I enjoyed it, I hope you do too!
Thanks! <3
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The coldest Girl in Coldtown does grab your attention immediately amidst all the other covers. I really like it for the simplicity.
It really does! I’ve always loved that cover.
Soooooo many great covers! I love this post Kristen… my favorite was The Human Wilderness… what a title and the cover is so intriguing… I agree with every detail you picked out! ♥️ I’m going to have to look that book up!
Thanks! The Human Wilderness is just so well-designed and eye-catching!
Some great covers here. My fav is The Coldest Girl in Coldtown – it’s just so unusual and striking.
Thanks! I’ve always thought that was a beautiful, striking cover!
I always love your cover features. I remember you doing a lot of them last year. I have to admit I think all the covers on that R.S. Belcher series rock! I also love The Human Wilderness. I am starting Smoke City in January and know how much you like it so I’m super excited. Some great choices here!
Thanks! I’ve done some this year, but yeah, I think I did more last year. I love all the covers on that R. S. Belcher series too, but I only read the first one this year, so it was the only one I could use, haha. The Human Wildnerness is such a great one! And I look forward to seeing what you think of Smoke City!
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A you may have noticed it has been in a few of my BEST of 2017 posts. And coming up next week.. MY BEST COVER TOO! SO glad you and I agreed on this one? Should we frame it for our living room???
What?! You and me actually agree on a book cover? Yes, we absolutely should frame it in the living room!