It’s been a few weeks, but I’m here again (sort of) participating in Top Ten Tuesday.
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly post currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It celebrates lovely lists, wonderful books and the bookish community. This week’s topic is Books for Armchair Travelers, but I wasn’t really feeling the prompt, so I went rogue and decided to do one from a couple of weeks ago that I was interested in, but didn’t have time: Book Covers Featuring Pretty or Unique Typography.
Anyway, without further ado, on with the post! I couldn’t narrow it down to just ten, by the way, so here’s twelve.
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Jaysea Lynn – Both pretty and unique
Girls of Dark Divine by E.V. Woods – Unique
How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps by Andrew Rowe – Unique
A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnson – Pretty
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers – Unique
Prince of Fortune by Lisa Tirreno – Pretty
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawsett – Pretty and unique
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle – Both pretty and unique
Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco – Both pretty and unique
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir – Unique
Tigers Trek by Colleen Houck – Both pretty and unique
Of Owls and Oolong by Shari L. Tapscott – Both pretty and unique
What are some books with covers with your favorite typography? Do you prefer books with a pretty or a unique title font? Or do you like both equally?
As always, thanks so much for reading, and I hope that you have an amazing day/night!
Happy Sunday! I hope everyone has had a good weekend. It’s only been three weeks this time since I’ve posted one of these! Yay!
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 that I’m highlighting is For Whom the Belle Tolls by Jaysea Lynn!
Lily is less than thrilled about her arrival to the Afterlife, but what awaits her is more fantastical than she ever could have imagined. Deities wait in line at the coffee shop. Fae flit between realms. Souls find ways to make death a beginning.
As Lily explores everything the Afterlife has to offer, she finds herself drawn to a place most people would rather avoid at all costs: Hell.
What she discovers there subverts everything she’s ever learned, and Lily realizes the demons working at the gate to guide souls need help—badly. Armed with years of customer service experience and pent-up sarcasm, Lily carves out a place for herself among the demons, confronting, sassing, and aiding the spectrum of humanity to redefine justice and redemption.
A chance meeting with Bel, a demon general with a distractingly sexy voice, sparks an immediate and deeply healing friendship. However, the undeniable heat between them simmers, and it’s only a matter of time before it combusts.
Meanwhile, something stirs beyond the boundaries of their world, threatening to destroy everything they’ve ever known and everything that could be… unless they fight like Hell to stop it.
Book Cover Rating: 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔 • 5 ringing bells
For Whom the Belle Tolls has one of the most gorgeous book covers that I’ve seen in a while. So many things about it – the color, the font, the art itself – are just beautiful. So of course I have to gush about it.
First off, as I just mentioned, the colors are awesome. I am of the mind that you can make most color combinations work, but you can usually never go wrong with purple and orange and gold. And the cover doesn’t.
Secondly, I adore the title font. Many covers usually have typefaces that don’t look all that unique, but this book is one of those that does the opposite. Not only does it simultaneously stand out and match the rest of the cover art at the same time, but it looks like it has its own identity. The W, two Os, and S in Whom and Tolls are particularly prominent.
And last but not least, the artwork itself is fantastic. I’m a sucker for flowers, and the book cover art features gorgeous purple lilies on the top and bottom borders. I also love the golden gate that they’re twisted around, as well as the sparks and mist swirling around. What a great cover!
So yeah, here’s yet another beautiful book cover. What do you think about this cover art? Have you read For Whom the Belle Tolls? If you have, what did you think of it?
Anyway, as always, thank you for reading, and I hope that you have an excellent day/night!
