After seeing this idea up on Jaime’s blog from The Broke and Bookish’s Top Ten Tuesday, I had to join in.
“Throne of the Crescent Moon” by Saladin Ahmed
Just look at that cover by one of my favorite artists, Jason Chan. It’s beautiful. Such a variety of awesome looking characters.
Loved the Blackbird cover, and love this one as well. Both remind me pleasantly of Death from The Sandman. I still need to read these.
“Shadow and Bone” by Leigh Bardugo
Beautiful, Russian-inspired cover art.
‘The Fault In Our Stars’ by John Green
Deceptively simple, but instantly recognisable. Click the link above to read a review.
“Article 5” by Kristen Simmons
An all-round wonderful sci-fi YA cover.
There’s something wonderfully tense and dramatic about this scene. I adore the colour of the sky as well, and the slight “Hush, Hush” style to the poses.
‘The Statistical Probability of Love At First Sight” by Jennifer E. Smith
Super-cute, love the restricted colour scheme and how neatly they worked in such a long title.
This is the story of a boy with an abnormal face. What a tricky book to think up a cover for, but this simple image really blows the concept out of the water.
This is a brilliantly illustration – it captures the title perfectly.
“Thief’s Covenant” by Ari Marmell
To finish things off, another Jason Chan – and this time it’s the story of Widdershins, a young thief. This is another cover which uses a restricted set of colours to beautiful effect, as well as negative space. I really like how confident and intelligent the young thief looks.
A few runner-ups that didn’t make the cut:
“Cinder” by Marissa Meyer. The cover sums up the story perfectly: Cinderella, with cyborgs.
“The Way We Fall” by Megan Crewe. The bright, bold yellow really grabs me here — and I’m a sucker for image-inside-text covers like the original Delirium cover.
“A Million Suns” by Beth Revis. “Across the Universe” had a fantastic cover, and it’s sequel is just as artistically well-off. This spells out the sci-fi and romance clearly, and the covers fit well with the previous book’s cover.
You have some really great covers here, and some of them are ones that I love too :) The difficulty was keeping the list down to only ten! There are just far too many that catch my eye.
Oh, definitely! It took me ages to narrow the list down.. and then I kept seeing new brilliant ones and having to reshuffle things.
Thief’s covenant has to be my favourite from your list. love the gear she’s wearing. looks very badass :D
Yeah, I love her outfit in that – practical, and lovely looking.
Awesome covers. My fave from your list is Throne of the Crescent Moon.
Love your covers:) Beautiful:)
Thank you!