Charming Covers [47]: The Moon and More

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The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen 

June 4, 2013

Set in the fictional beach town of Colby, where several of Dessen's novels take place, it features 18-year-old Emmeline, who is spending her last summer before college working for her family's vacation rental business and enjoying a summer romance with a young aspiring filmmaker.

First of all, I love the  new Sarah Dessen covers. They are really cute and capture her books well. And this one is cute as well. I'm not sure if it's my favorite of the covers, but I still like it. 

And I'm excited to return to Sarah Dessen and Colby!

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The Originals by Cat Patrick 

May 7, 2012

A riveting new story from Cat Patrick, author of Forgotten and Revived.

17-year-olds Lizzie, Ella, and Betsey Best grew up as identical triplets... until they discovered a shocking family secret. They're actually closer than sisters, they're clones. Hiding from a government agency that would expose them, the Best family appears to consist of a single mother with one daughter named Elizabeth. Lizzie, Ella, and Betsey take turns going to school, attending social engagements, and a group mindset has always been a de facto part of life...

Then Lizzie meets Sean Kelly, a guy who seems to see into her very soul. As their relationship develops, Lizzie realizes that she's not a carbon copy of her sisters; she's an individual with unique dreams and desires, and digging deeper into her background, Lizzie begins to dismantle the delicate balance of an unusual family that only science could have created. 

I have become quite a fan of Cat Patrick. I really enjoyed her first two novels, and I'm excited for this one! It sound just as intriguing and unique as Forgotten and Revived. 

Charming Covers [45]: Just One Day

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Just One Day by Gayle Forman

January 8, 2013

A breathtaking journey toward self-discovery and true love, from the author of If I Stay
When sheltered American good girl Allyson "LuLu" Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of Twelfth Night in England, there’s an undeniable spark. After just one day together, that spark bursts into a flame, or so it seems to Allyson, until the following morning, when she wakes up after a whirlwind day in Paris to discover that Willem has left. Over the next year, Allyson embarks on a journey to come to terms with the narrow confines of her life, and through Shakespeare, travel, and a quest for her almost-true-love, to break free of those confines.

Just One Day is the first in a sweepingly romantic duet of novels. Willem’s story—Just One Year—is coming soon!

I love Gayle Forman, and I'm so excited to read this one!

I like this cover; I just find it more sophisticated and different than other covers now and days. Plus, just from the description, it sounds like the cover really captures the book!

Charming Covers [44]: Golden by Jessi Kirby

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Golden by Jessi Kirby

May 14, 2012

Seventeen-year-old Parker Frost may be a distant relative of Robert Frost, but she has never taken the road less traveled. Valedictorian and quintessential good girl, she's about to graduate high school without ever having kissed her crush or broken the rules. So when fate drops a mystery in her lap--one that might be the key to uncovering the truth behind a town tragedy, she decides to take a chance.

I love that how all of Jessi Kirby's covers scream summer. Golden is no different. I like how the gold in it is created by the sun.

I've only read Jessi's debut novel, but I'll probably read anything by her. I still can't believe I've waited so long to read In Honor. Anyway, Golden looks like a really unique and great read!

What do you guys think?

Charming Covers [43]: With All My Soul

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With All My Soul by Rachel Vincent

April 1, 2013

The seventh and final book in the Soul Screamers Series. 

Yay! There's a cover. You don't know how much I love this series. It's one of my favorite series. I'm both excited to return to this world again and sad since it is the last book in the series. All I have to say is it better have a lot of Tod in it!

I wasn't sure about the gold coloring in this one since the others have been so bright. But I read on Rachel's blog that she personally requested that the dress on this book be silver or gold, so I'm glad she got her wish (I mean, it is her book and all). And, she said that this dress is actually (unlike the others) in the book, and that makes me happy, too. 

Charming Covers [42]: The Rules by Stacey Kade

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The Rules by Stacey Kade

April 2013

1. Never trust anyone.

2. Remember they are always searching.

3. Don’t get involved.

4. Keep your head down.

5. Don’t fall in love.

Five simple rules. Ariane Tucker has followed them since the night she escaped from the genetics lab where she was created, the result of combining human and extraterrestrial DNA. Ariane’s survival—and that of her adoptive father—depends on her ability to blend in among the full-blooded humans, to hide in plain sight from those who seek to recover their lost (and expensive) “project.”

But when a cruel prank at school goes awry, it puts her in the path of Zane Bradshaw, the police chief’s son and someone who sees too much. Someone who really sees her. After years of trying to be invisible, Ariane finds the attention frightening—and utterly intoxicating. Suddenly, nothing is simple anymore, especially not the rules…

I'm really excited for this book! I really enjoyed Kade's The Ghost and the Goth series and I can't wait to see where this book goes. I like how it looks different from her light-hearted debut series. And I like the cover. It's eye-catching and different enough. I can't wait to read this one!

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Whew! It's been a while since I've done one of these so I figured that it was time. 

This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith

2013

If fate sent you an email, would you answer?

In This is What Happy Looks Like, Jennifer E. Smith's new YA novel, perfect strangers Graham Larkin and Ellie O'Neill meet—albeit virtually—when Graham accidentally sends Ellie an email about his pet pig, Wilbur. In the tradition of romantic movies like "You've Got Mail" and "Sleepless in Seattle," the two 17-year-olds strike up an email relationship, even though they live on opposite sides of the country and don't even know each other's first names.

Through a series of funny and poignant messages, Graham and Ellie make a true connection, sharing intimate details about their lives, hopes and fears. But they don't tell each other everything; Graham doesn't know the major secret hidden in Ellie's family tree, and Ellie is innocently unaware that Graham is actually a world-famous teen actor living in Los Angeles.

When the location for the shoot of Graham's new film falls through, he sees an opportunity to take their relationship from online to in-person, managing to get the production relocated to picturesque Henley, Maine, where Ellie lives. But can a star as famous as Graham have a real relationship with an ordinary girl like Ellie? And why does Ellie's mom want her to avoid the media's spotlight at all costs?

Just as they did in The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, the hands of fate intervene in wondrous ways in this YA novel that delivers on high concept romance in lush and thoughtful prose.

I like how this cover keeps the same theme and feel as The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. It's cute. I have no idea what the boat has to do with anything but I guess I'll just have to read it and find out. 

Even though that this concept has been done before (the description even says this is along the lines of You've Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle), I haven't seen this in young adult. It looks really cute, and I'm excited to see more of this author. 

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Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

February 5, 2013

This book will feature Cinder and Little Red Riding Hood and will take place in France.

Cinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive.

Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother and the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she has no choice but to trust him, though he clearly has a few dark secrets of his own.

As Scarlet and Wolf work to unravel one mystery, they find another when they cross paths with Cinder. Together, they must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen who will do anything to make Prince Kai her husband, her king, her prisoner.

I'm really excited for this book. I enjoyed Cinder, and can't wait to see where the story takes us next. 

I totally did not notice at first that this cover features a cape. I thought it was some sort of flower or something. But no, it is a cape, which goes along with the Red Riding Hood part. This cover has a really simple design. I like it, though not as much as the first book. And I love the font.

Charming Covers [39]: Lots of Sequel Covers!

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There have been quite a few cover reveals in the last week or so, so I'm going to show off a lot of them!

Boundless by Cynthia Hand

January 22, 2013

Yay! I'm very excited for this book. Does anyone know if this is the final installment or where there be more!

The Rising by Kelley Armstrong (Darkness Rising #3)

April 9, 2013

Okay, if you read my blog for any amount of time, you know why I'm so excited for this book. The characters from this series and the Darkest Powers series meet up! Oh, I am so excited to see Chloe, Derek, Simon, and Tori again!

Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi

February 5, 2013

I really enjoyed Shatter Me and I'm excited to see where the sequel takes us!

I'm very torn with these covers (this and the new Shatter Me cover). Even though the last cover wasn't the prettiest, I think it captured the book fairly well. But I like that these covers are different than others you see today. The old and new covers are so different, and I like them both in different ways. 

Everbound by Brodi Asthon

January 22, 2013

I, personally, like this cover better than the first book. I like that her face is turned away so that you can't see all of it (it really bothers me that in the first book, her face is just cut off). I like the smoke and the dress. Anyway, I'm really excited for this one!

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Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick

October 23, 2012

Nora is more certain than ever that she is in love with Patch. Fallen angel or no, he is the one for her. Her heritage and destiny may mean that they will always be enemies, but there is no turning her back on him. But now they face their biggest challenge. Can their love survive a seemingly insurmountable divide. And in the end, will there be enough trust left to rebuild what has been broken? The lines are drawn - but which sides are they on?

This series has proved to have its ups and downs, but I'm pretty excited to see how it all ends. Despite what others say, I think it's an enjoyable series. 

I like this cover. I don't like it as much as some of the other covers, but it's interesting and pretty enough. 

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Crash by Lisa McMann

Jules lives with her family above their restaurant, which means she smells like pizza most of the time and drives their double-meatball-shaped food truck to school. It’s not a recipe for popularity, but she can handle that. 

What she can’t handle is the vision. Over and over, Jules sees a careening truck hit a building and explode... and nine body bags in the snow. 

She has no idea why this is happening to her or if she’s going crazy. It hardly matters, because the visions are everywhere--on billboards, television screens, windows--and she’s the only one who can see them. 

But it’s not until the vision starts coming more frequently, and revealing more clues, that Jules knows what she has to do. Because now she can see the face in one of the body bags, and it's someone she knows. Someone she’s been in love with for as long as she can remember.

I really enjoyed the Wake trilogy, and I'm excited to see where this series takes us. Hopefully I'll enjoy it as much!

I like that this cover is so different from the other series. I like the fire in the eye. 

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Having had no choice but to use her power has a necromancer to save Russia from dark forces, Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, now wants to forget that she ever used her special powers. She's about to set off to pursue her lifelong dream of attending medical school when she discovers that Russia's arch nemesis--who she thought she'd destroyed--is still alive. So on imperial orders, Katerina remains at her old finishing school. She'll be safe there, because the empress has cast a potent spell to protect it against the vampires and revenants who are bent on toppling the tsar and using Katerina for their own gains. But to Katerina's horror, the spell unleashes a vengeful ghost within the school, a ghost more dangerous than any creature trying to get in.

I have yet to read The Gathering Storm, but I'm excited to! Hopefully it's good enough to read the sequel. I know there are some mixed reviews, so I'll just have to see for myself. 

As for this cover, I like it. I don't like it as much as the first one, however. Something about this girl kind of bothers me. But, I do like the contrast in the background. And the font. I have to point out the awesome font. 

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The Blood Keeper by Tessa Gratton

August 28, 2012

For Mab Prowd, the practice of blood magic is as natural as breathing. It's all she's ever known. Growing up on an isolated farm in Kansas with other practitioners may have kept her from making friends her own age, but it has also given her a sense of purpose—she's connected to the land and protective of the magic. And she is able to practice it proudly and happily out in the open with only the crows as her companions. Mab will do anything to keep the ancient practice alive and guard its secrets. But one morning while she is working out a particularly tricky spell she encounters Will, a local boy who is trying to exorcise some mundane personal demons. He experiences Mab's magic in a way his mind cannot comprehend and is all too happy to end their chance meeting. But secrets that were kept from Mab by the earlier generations of blood magicians have come home to roost. And she and Will are drawn back together, time again by this dangerous force looking to break free from the earth and reclaim its own dark power. 

I really enjoyed the Tessa's first book, Blood Magic. I wasn't anticipating this being more of a companion novel, but I'm still very excited for it. 

This cover is a lot different from the first one. It's not as pretty, but I still like it a lot. 

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Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

October 23, 2012

I really like this series. I'm not sure how I feel about the bright green, but I have a thing about swirling staircases like that.

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Hidden by Sophie Jordan 

September 11, 2012

Jacinda was supposed to bond with Cassian, the "prince" of their pride. But she resisted long before she fell in love with Will—a human and, worse, a hunter. When she ran away with Will, it ended in disaster, with Cassian's sister, Miram, captured. Weighed down by guilt, Jacinda knows she must rescue her to set things right. Yet to do so she will have to venture deep into the heart of enemy territory. 

The only way Jacinda can reach Miram is by posing as a prisoner herself, though once she assumes that disguise, things quickly spiral out of her control. As she learns more about her captors, she realizes that even if Will and Cassian can carry out their part of the plan, there's no guarantee they'll all make it out alive. But what Jacinda never could have foreseen is that escaping would be only the beginning.... 

Loyalties are tested and sacrifices made in the explosive conclusion to Sophie Jordan's Firelight trilogy

I'm not going to lie, I am not a huge fan of this cover. The others are so gorgeous (especially the first one) and I just don't think this one is very pretty. I don't know if it's the girl's face that bothers me or the green-ish color on the title or both. It's not hideous. But nothing compared to the others in this series. 

However, I am in love with this series, and I'm dying to read the conclusion. Although, I'll be sad when the series is over. 

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Nevermore by James Patterson

August 6, 2012

One last chance... 
for Max, Fang, and Dylan... 
before it all ends. 

Are you ready for the final chapter? Are you ready for the ultimate flight? Because THIS IS IT. One last incredible, explosive adventure with an astonishing ending that no one could have seen coming.

I think this is the best cover in the series. The covers here have a tendency to be really cheesy. This is far better than the over covers.

I loved the first few books in this series. But as it kept going, it got kind of old and overdone. But I kept with it because it was still interesting and I really liked the characters (most of them anyway). So I can't wait to see how it all ends.

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Such a Rush by Jennifer Echols

July 10, 2012

A sexy and poignant romantic tale of a young daredevil pilot caught between two brothers. 

High school senior Leah Jones loves nothing more than flying. While she’s in the air, it’s easy to forget life with her absentee mother at the low-rent end of a South Carolina beach town. When her flight instructor, Mr. Hall, hires her to fly for his banner advertising business, she sees it as her ticket out of the trailer park. And when he dies suddenly, she’s afraid her flying career is gone forever. 

But Mr. Hall’s teenage sons, golden boy Alec and adrenaline junkie Grayson, are determined to keep the banner planes flying. Though Leah has crushed on Grayson for years, she’s leery of getting involved in what now seems like a doomed business--until Grayson betrays her by digging up her most damning secret. Holding it over her head, he forces her to fly for secret reasons of his own, reasons involving Alec. Now Leah finds herself drawn into a battle between brothers--and the consequences could be deadly

I'm so excited to get back into the world of Jen Echols!

I like this cover because unlike her other serious contemporaries, there is just a girl by herself here. I think it's very pretty. 

This sounds different than anything I've come across, as usual with Jen Echols. Hopefully this will be as good as all her others!

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Taken by Storm 

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

May 22, 2012

3rd book in the Raised by Wolves series

This is one of my favorite werewolves series. There is no description yet, but I can't wait to see what's in store in this installment!

I like this cover. I don't like it as much as the first, but more than the second. Beautiful!

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Before I Wake by Rachel Vincent

July 2012

Yay! I love this series and now that the 6th one has a cover I'm even more excited for it! After the last book, I'm doing to know what happens next.

This isn't my favorite cover in the series, but it didn't fail to be absolutely gorgeous.

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Destiny's Fire by Trisha Wolfe

January 10, 2012

Sixteen-year-old Dez Harkly is one of the last of her kind—a part of a nearly extinct race of Kythan descended from ancient guardians who protected the pharaohs of Egypt. As Shythe, they must keep their shape-shifting ability and electric power hidden from the humans of their steam-powered world. 

It’s the year 2040 and the Shythe Council has lowered their barrier, allowing the Narcolym—the dominant race of Kythan whose Flame ushered in the steam era—to enter their haven. As the Narcolym airships get closer, Dez secretly trains for an attack that her best friend Jace believes is coming despite the Treaty Act. Not only is Dez wary of war, and her growing affection for Jace, but she fears the change her fast-approaching birthday will bring. 

When her power rockets out of control, Dez knows she’ll never attend the Shythe Academy with her friends, and worse, her mother’s planning to run. But a Narco named Reese could change her fate . . . if she can trust him. After Dez discovers why the Narcos have really come to Haven Falls, her guarded world crumbles. She’s forced to choose between the race who’s raised her and the enemy she’s feared her whole life. 

DESTINY'S FIRE is an emotional journey of Dez’s struggle to overcome her fear and embrace her power—her destiny

There was a different cover released for this that I didn't like. At all. But then I saw this one, and I think it may be the final cover. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Anyway, I love this cover so much more. It's pretty and it gives off a real steampunkery feel. I'm very excited for this book!