Hey everyone, Happy Spring!! 🌸🌱🌼🌿 It’s official – yesterday was March 21st! (I also meant to post something yesterday on the actual first day of spring, but I completely forgot. And it was a Friday post too, so it’s not gonna happen now, lol.)
Anyway, Leslie @ Books Are the New Black created a fun monthly post called Birthstone Book Covers. Each month, she features book covers that are either the same color of that month’s birthstone or include the color in the title.
March has one birthstone – Aquamarine. So the color is… aquamarine. Or light blue. I actually struggled a little bit with this one for whatever reason, which is why it’s later in the month than I normally post it. But I did it!
Rules: 📚 Mention the creator (Leslie @ Books Are The New Black ) and link back to her so she can check out your post. 📚 Pick 5+ book covers that match the current month’s Birthstone. 📚 HAVE FUN! 📚 Nominate people if you want!
Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
Unite Me by Tahereh Mafi
The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa
One Tough Cookie hy Delise Torres
What are your favorite books with aquamarine and blue book covers? If you participated in Birthstone Books, which books did you choose this March?
Thanks for reading, and I hope you have the most amazing day/night!
For anyone who doesn’t know, Bewitching Book Covers (formerly Tasteful Tuesdays, and before that, Majestic Mondays), is a series where I highlight an awesome looking book cover and talk about what I like about it. That’s it, that’s pretty much the point of this post.
This week the book cover I’m highlighting is The Starlight Heir by Amalie Howard!
To save the realm from eternal darkness, she’ll have to choose between the truth and the lie—stand and fight or kneel and die.
“His Imperial Majesty, King Zarek requests your presence as his esteemed guest.”
When the gold-dusted court invitation arrives at Suraya Saab’s forge, she believes it’s a joke. Nobles might seek her skills as a bladesmith—one of few who can imbue her work with precious jadu, the last source of magic in the realm—but she has no qualifications as a potential bride for the crown prince. Still, the invitation is the chance at adventure, and the means to finally visit the capital city her late mother loved.
But what awaits her in Kaldari is nothing she could have imagined—and fraught with danger. It’s not the crown prince, but his impossibly handsome, illegitimate half-brother, Roshan, who draws her interest…and her ire. The invitation isn’t a quest to find a suitable bride, but a veiled hunt for the starkeeper—a girl rumored to hold the magic of the stars in her blood. And across the city, unrest is brewing between the noble houses and the rebel militia.
When the rebels carry out a brutal strike, Suraya and Roshan find themselves on the run, trying to deny their simmering attraction and the knowledge that Suraya herself might be the starkeeper. But Roshan is hiding secrets of his own. And with no control of the power that seems to be stirring within her, Suraya has drawn the attention of the old gods themselves…and the interest of one dark god in particular might be the biggest threat of all.
Book Cover Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 • 4 bright, glowing stars
Wow. The new books coming out lately sure have some pretty looking covers.
Like the last book cover I gushed over – The Beasts We Bury – The Starlight Heir’s cover art also has a bunch of purple on it. And, for some reason, purple covers tend to catch my eye. I dunno why, honestly. Purple isn’t even my favorite color or anything.
But purple isn’t the only prominent color on this cover. There’s also a lot of pink and teal, and they both compliment the purple very nicely. The pink more directly, as it’s clearly meant to highlight the purple of the feathers of the creature on the cover. The teal on the other hand, is part of the foliage in the background, behind the creature on the cover. There’s also some gold integrated here. The colors in the foliage definitely make it stand out.
As usual, I also really like the font chosen (or designed) for the title. It’s pretty serif-esque for the most part, which makes it feel very prominent on the cover art. But it has some swirls and a bit of a flourish to it, which gives it a bit of an elegant feel. The white color of the text also makes it stand out from the rest of the colorful cover.
So yeah, here’s yet another beautiful book cover. What do you think about this cover art? Have you read The Starlight Heir?
Anyway, as always, thank you for reading, and I hope that you have an excellent day/night!
Ugh. Three posts again. Oh well. Hopefully this coming week will be a little better.
I really want to get a book review out this week as well. I’ve been disappointed in myself these past couple of weeks with my actual novel reading as well as book reviews. I’ve just been so distracted lately and this time of year is hard for me where reading books is concerned, for some reason.
Anyway, without further ado, let’s get on with the weekly wrap-up!
Wednesday 2/19: Can’t-Wait Wednesday
On Wednesday, I did another Can’t-Wait Wednesday. I’m still on a roll! There’s just been so many novels coming out recently that have looked interesting to me!
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme currently hosted by Tressa @ Wishful Endings. It focuses on books you’re looking forward to reading, usually new releases.
On Thursday, for the first time in almost a month, I did another Bewitching Book Covers post. Bewitching Book Covers (formerly known as Majestic Mondays and Tasteful Tuesdays), is when I gush over a book cover that I like as well as analyze it (sometimes).
This past Friday, I participated in First Line Fridays for the first time in several weeks. First Line Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers (formerly) hosted by Wandering Words.
So yeah, this past week wasn’t quite what I’d hoped it would be, but I can only hope that this next week will be better. Ugh. My reading this February has sucked so far. Fingers crossed this week improves. 🍀🤞
This week I’m planning on finishing Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales and posting my review of it. I’m also hoping to start another book, too.
This week I’m also gonna be doing some house cleaning. Last week was kind of hectic and I also kept getting distracted by stuff. Not to mention we had snow in our area, so that messed up a bunch of stuff. But yeah, cleaning this week. Ew.
Anyway, as always thank you for reading, and I hope you have a wonderful day/night!
Hey guys! Happy Thursday! It’s been a while, but I’ve wanted to do another Bewitching Book Covers post for a while, so here it is.
For anyone who doesn’t know, Bewitching Book Covers (formerly Tasteful Tuesdays, and before that, Majestic Mondays), is a series where I highlight an awesome looking book cover and talk about what I like about it. That’s it, that’s pretty much the point of this post.
This week the book cover I’m highlighting is The Beasts We Bury by D.L. Taylor.
Deceit and betrayal abound in this dark YA romantasy about an heir to the throne who can summon an army of animals and a thief who plans to manipulate her to pull off a once-in-a-lifetime heist.
Will he steal her heart or her chance at the throne?
Daughter and heir to the throne, Mancella Cliff yearns for a life without bloodshed. But as a child, she emerged from the Broken Citadel with the power to summon animals—only after killing them with her bare hands. Her magic is a constant reminder of the horrors her father, the ruler of the realm, has forced upon her to strengthen their power.
Silver is a charming thief struggling to survive in a world torn apart by Mancella’s father’s reign. When a mysterious benefactor recruits him for the heist of a lifetime, a chance to rob the castle, Silver relishes the opportunity for a real future—and revenge. But he’ll have to manipulate Mance and earn her trust to pull it off.
As the deception and carnage mount, Mance must find a way to save her realm without becoming the ruthless monster she’s been bred to be. And when Silver discovers that his actions are fueling the violence that Mance wants to prevent, he’ll have to choose between his ambition and the girl he’s falling for.
Book Cover Rating: 🪻🪻🪻 • 3 sprigs of purple flowers
So, The Beasts We Bury has a really pretty cover. I’m just a total sucker for covers with flowers in general, so this obviously caught my eye immediately. I also really enjoy shades of purple and lavender, which is something else that drew my eye to it.
The black backdrop really helped the rest of the cover pop out. The light purple flowers really stand out, as well as the gold colored text. The title and the flowers also contrasted well with one another, probably because they’re complementary colors.
I really liked the font used for the title and author and cover text in general. The B’s in particular look really nice. The author’s name also really stands out, yet matches the rest of the cover at the same time, by virtue of being green. So it stands out from the rest of the text by not being gold, but matches the cover by being green like the stems and leaves of the flowers. All in all, though, I think the cover art here is pretty good.
So yeah, here’s yet another beautiful book cover. What do you think about this cover art? Have you read The Beasts We Bury?
Anyway, as always, thank you for reading, and I hope that you have an excellent day/night!
It’s earlier in the month than I’ve done it lately – which I’m very happy about – but here’s another Birthstone Book Covers post.
Leslie @ Books Are the New Black created a fun monthly post called Birthstone Book Covers. Each month, she features book covers that are either the same color of that month’s birthstone or include the color in the title.
February has one birthstone – Amythest. It’s purple time! Woohoo!
Rules: 📚 Mention the creator (Leslie @ Books Are The New Black ) and link back to her so she can check out your post. 📚 Pick 5+ book covers that match the current month’s Birthstone. 📚 HAVE FUN! 📚 Nominate people if you want!
The Beasts We Bury by D.L. TaylorThe Starlight Heir by Amalie HowardThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerCarry On by Rainbow RowellThe Bone Witch by Rin ChupecoAnd I Darken by Kiersten White
What are your favorite books with purple book covers? If you participated in Birthstone Books, which books did you choose this February?
Thanks for reading, and I hope you have the most amazing day/night!
Happy Sunday everybody! We’ve finally reached the end of the week! It’s been a while, so I’ve decided I’ve got to do another Bewitching Book Covers post. ‘Cause I want to get to doing it more often.
For anyone who doesn’t know, Bewitching Book Covers (formerly Tasteful Tuesdays, and before that, Majestic Mondays), is a series where I highlight an awesome looking book cover and talk about what I like about it. That’s it, that’s pretty much the point of this post.
This week, the book cover I’m highlighting is The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow!
LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER Finalist for the 2020 Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards.
In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut.
In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place.
Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.
Lush and richly imagined, a tale of impossible journeys, unforgettable love, and the enduring power of stories awaits in Alix E. Harrow’s spellbinding debut–step inside and discover its magic.
Book Cover Rating: 🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️ • 5 silver keys
So, like, this book cover is absolutely beautiful. I decided to gush about this book in particular because it has “January” in the title, and considering the month… yeah. But anyway, I forgot how gorgeous the cover art was, and was abruptly reminded when I chose The Ten Thousand Doors of January.
First off, I love all of the different flowers bordering the cover. I love flowers in general, and I love clusters and bouquets of different flowers even more. The way these are drawn here is also very pretty. I also love all of the different looking, old-fashioned styled keys dangling from some of the flowers, as well. (I also love old-fashioned styled keys.)
The background being a matte black is also awesome. It allows a strong contrast between the backdrop of the cover and the colorful flora surrounding the cover. But it also contrasts the gold in the center of the cover and the white font of the title.
Speaking of the title, I love how there’s like three different fonts used for it. It really makes the title stand out and also makes it look pretty unique. Integrating the title into the cover itself was also awesome – via the second “O” in “Doors” – and really makes the entire book cover feel incredibly connected, and ties the whole thing together.
So yeah, here’s yet another beautiful book cover. What do you think about this cover art? Have you read The Ten Thousand Doors of January?
Anyway, as always, thank you for reading, and I hope that you have an excellent day/night!
Wow, it’s already Sunday! This week has flown by! It’s been forever, but I’m back with another Bewitching Book Covers post.
For anyone who doesn’t know, Bewitching Book Covers (formerly Tasteful Tuesdays, and before that, Majestic Mondays), is a series where I highlight an awesome looking book cover and talk about what I like about it. That’s it, that’s pretty much the point of this post.
This week, the book cover I’m highlighting is The Crone of Midnight Embers by Iris Beaglehole!
Why don’t more 60-something-year-olds get to have fun magical adventures?
Delia Spark is caught in a maelstrom. Her former life as a London theatre director is on the brink of implosion amid a scandalous divorce, a tarnished reputation, and, for reasons she cannot fathom, things keep spontaneously combusting around her. Her sixties were supposed to be peaceful, but now even her grown daughter won’t return her calls. Escape is the only option.
In the remote village of Myrtlewood, she seeks solace, not suspecting that in this quaint haven, far stranger adventures await than the urban chaos she left behind. Delia is oblivious to the undercurrent that her arrival stirs. Amid whispers of magic, she finds herself on the precipice of an extraordinary transformation.
As she grapples with these new realities, an ominous shadow lurks – a secret Order, steeped in ancient lore, is watching, plotting and scheming. Delia must confront her destiny. Will she surrender to the enchanting pull of Myrtlewood and the ancient prophecies of the elemental crones, or will she claw back her former life from her power-hungry ex?
Welcome to a world where the extraordinary is ordinary, where tranquillity is a veil for the mystical, and where time itself whispers secrets of old served with delicious cakes and cups of tea – or coffee if you insist!
Book Cover Rating: ☕☕☕☕ • 4 delicious cups of tea filled with adventure
So I’ll get into the cover in a moment, but can we just all agree that this is a great premise? Like, I haven’t read it, but the idea of a much older protagonist is super interesting to me. I love the idea that you’re never too old for an adventure!
Anyway, the book cover art for The Crone of Midnight Embers is very good. I’m always a sucker for blue, so it’s no surprise that I like it so much, considering the background is just that. I also like the lighter blue sequin-like designs around the border of the cover.
The bright golden yellow is also a beautiful addition to the book cover. I love how it stands out and contrasts with all the blue, but also isn’t jarring at all. I love the font used here (I don’t know what it’s called, but it’s one of my favorites), and the flowers are also very pretty. I’m a sucker for flowers, too.
My favorite thing about this cover art, though, has to be the crow and the moon sequestered off on the upper half on the right side of the cover. It just looks so good, and I love crows in stories. (Moons are cool too, I guess. Lol.) I also like the little journal/book with the feather pen near the bottom as well. I can never not complement a book, haha. This is a very pretty book cover.
So yeah, here’s yet another beautiful book cover. What do you think about this cover art? Have you read The Crone of Midnight Embers?
Anyway, as always, thank you for reading, and I hope that you have an excellent day/night!
Whew – I’m really late in the month this time! But it’s still September, so I’m gonna enjoy doing another Birthstone Book Covers post.
Leslie @ Books Are the New Black created a fun monthly post called Birthstone Book Covers. Each month, she features book covers that are either the same color of that month’s birthstone or include the color in the title.
September has one birthstone – Sapphire. And it’s another blue birthstone month – yay!
Rules:
📚 Mention the creator (Leslie @ Books Are The New Black) and link back to her so she can check out your post. 📚 Pick 5+ book covers that match the current month’s Birthstone. 📚 HAVE FUN! 📚 Nominate people if you want!
The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde
Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Happy Saturday everyone! I hope that everybody is enjoying their weekend! It’s been a while, but I’m back with another Bewitching Book Covers post.
For anyone who doesn’t know, Bewitching Book Covers (formerly Tasteful Tuesdays, and before that, Majestic Mondays), is a series where I highlight an awesome looking book cover and talk about what I like about it. That’s it, that’s pretty much the point of this post.
This week, the book cover I’m highlighting is A Fire in the Sky by Sophie Jordan!
New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan returns to the high-stakes, sweeping world of dragons, romance, and drama first evoked in her bestselling young adult Firelight series, in a brand-new epic adult romantasy series.
Dragons are extinct. Witches are outcast. Magic is dying.
But human lust for power is immortal.
Dragon fire no longer blisters the skies over Penterra, but inside the lavish palace, life is still perilous… especially for Tamsyn. Raised in the glittering court alongside the princesses, it’s her duty to be punished for their misdeeds. Treated as part of the royal family but also as the lowliest servant, Tamsyn fits nowhere. Her only friend is Stig, Captain of the Guard… though sometimes she thinks he wants more than friendship.
When Fell, the Beast of the Borderlands, descends on her home, Tamsyn’s world becomes even more dangerous. To save the pampered princesses from a fate worse than death, she is commanded to don a veil and marry the brutal warrior. She agrees to the deception even though it means leaving Stig, and the only life she’s ever known, behind.
The wedding night begins with unexpected passion—and ends in near violence when her trickery is exposed. Rather than start a war, Fell accepts Tamsyn as his bride… but can he accept the dark secrets she harbors—secrets buried so deep even she doesn’t know they exist? For Tamsyn is more than a royal whipping girl, more than the false wife of a man who now sees her as his enemy. And when those secrets emerge, they will ignite a flame bright enough to burn the entire kingdom to the bone.
Magic is not dead… it is only sleeping. And it will take one ordinary girl with an extraordinary destiny to awaken it.
Book Cover Rating: 🎇🎇🎇🎇 • 4 fires in the sky
A Fire in the Sky is another book with a less complex cover. Nonetheless, it’s still a very pretty one, and it definitely caught my eye.
First off, the way that the dragon is drawn is beautiful, and I love the shades of red in it. I also really like the red balls of fire floating around it, and how they look to be floating in the night sky among the stars. Not only do they stand out, but they also complement the night sky in the backdrop.
Also, I love the way the title looks. I usually have an appreciation for title fonts, but this one I really like in particular. I think it’s because titles are usually displayed on top of the rest of the book cover art, but this time that isn’t the case. The title print of A Fire in the Sky actually interacts with parts of the cover art here. And I love it. I love how the dragon seems to cling to the title, and how the edges of some of the letters have a bit of a swirl to them. Everything really complements the cover well. This is a pretty nice book cover.
So yeah, that’s another beautiful book cover. What do you think about this cover art? Are you looking forward to A Fire in the Sky?
Anyway, as always, thank you to everyone who reads my posts. I hope that you enjoyed this one as well, and that you have an excellent day/night!
Happy Friday everybody! Here we are again with a familiar post, but It’s slightly different than it was before. And before that. ‘Cause this post has had a few… evolutions, you could say.
I’ve decided to drop all pretenses – I’m clearly not gonna stick to a day of the week. This post is just gonna happen on whatever day of the week it happens on. So I’ve renamed it for the final time – Bewitching Book Covers!
For anyone who doesn’t know, Bewitching Book Covers (formerly Tasteful Tuesdays, and before that, Majestic Mondays), is a series where I highlight an awesome looking book cover and talk about what I like about it. That’s it, that’s pretty much the point of this post.
This week, the book cover I’m gushing about is Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White by Amélie Wen Zhao.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic sequel to the book Song of Silver, Flame Like Night, is a fast-paced, riveting YA fantasy inspired by the mythology and folklore of ancient China.
The Demon Gods have risen. Skies’ End has fallen to the colonizers. And Lan and Zen have chosen sides.
But they will not fight together.
Though Lan inherited the power of the Silver Dragon, she understands the path she must take. She believes the Demon Gods to be the cause of war, conflict, and turmoil, and that the future of the Last Kingdom depends on their being eliminated forever. Worse, she knows that if the Elantians manage to bind one of the legendary beings, their army will be unstoppable. To save her kingdom and her people, Lan will need to find the only mythical weapon capable of destroying the Demon Gods: the Godslayer.
Zen is sure that the only way to free the Last Kingdom is to use the power of the Demon Gods. When he bound the Black Tortoise, he paid the ultimate price: to inherit its strength, he will forfeit his body, his mind, and his soul. Yet one Demon God is not enough against the might of the colonizers. In the ruins of the northern Mansorian lands slumbers a magical army of demonic practitioners capable of facing off against the Elantians—but Zen must find the Seal to awaken them to fight by his side.
At the center of both Lan’s and Zen’s journeys is one city: Shaklahira, a former stronghold of the Imperial Court that vanished without a trace when the Elantians invaded. Its location is a mystery, and both are sure that it holds the answers they need, but the past it hides might be more dangerous than anything they’ve faced yet.
The battle for the Last Kingdom rages on. But to win the war, Lan will have to decide: Can she face the boy she loves again? And when she does, can she kill him to free her people?
Book Cover Rating: 🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶 • 5 gorgeous plumes
Like its predecessor, Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White has an simply breathtaking cover. It’s absolutely beautiful honestly, and is one of my favorite new book covers from this year.
First off, I adore the colors. The way the shades of pink pair with the red and the orange is so pretty. I also like how the bits of blue, green and yellow complement the rest of the artwork. This novel’s cover also both contrasts and complements the cover of Song Like Silver, Flame Like Night because of this. I also like how this cover art depicts another one of the four great Demon Gods that are important to this series – this one depicts the phoenix, much like how book one is focused on the dragon.
I also loved the Chinese characters in the bottom left corner of the cover. They just add so much to the artwork just by being there – which is something even I can tell, as someone who can’t read it. The font used for the title and author for these books is awesome, and also complements the cover art very well. I just love this book cover!
So yeah, that’s another beautiful book cover. What do you think about this cover art? Have you read Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White or Song Like Silver, Flame Like Night? What did you think of it/them?
Anyway, as always, thank you to everyone who reads my posts. I hope that you enjoyed this one as well, and that you have a amazing day/night!
