Technology. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. *Sighs dramatically*
In any case, Cover Lust is the brainchild of Catherine who decided that every month we’ll switch off and share our top three favorite and least favorite covers. As Catherine kickstarted it, she did the January edition which can be found here if you missed it.
My Top 3 Favorite Covers:
1. After Ben (Seattle Stories #1) by Con Riley (Cover Art by Anne Cain): This right here is what book covers, in my opinion, need to shoot for. It’s simple, clean, and significant to the story itself. You’ve got an outline of Seattle in the background, but it’s not detracting from the main focus of the cover. It’s kind of like an added little bonus that you might miss on the first, second, or even third time looking at the cover, but when you finally do notice it, you have this aha! moment. I like having those aha! moments; give me more of ’em, cover artists. Give. Me. More.
2. Taxes and TARDIS by N.R. Walker (Cover Art by Posh Gosh): Who says that a man has to be naked to catch this girl’s attention? Not me. I love a man in a suit, and let me to tell you, this guy right here knows how to wear one.
3. Life After Joe by Harper Fox (Cover Artist Unknown): One of the moodiest covers I have ever seen. Everything about this cover to me screams heartbreaking. The blue, the men embracing, even the damn font. It also has one of those little aha! moments that I love. Can you find it?
My Top 3 Least Favorite Covers:
1. Corruption (Diversion #3) by Eden Winters (Cover Art by Scarlet Tie Designs and P.D. Singer): Why, why, why did they have to change covers? Ugh. I really like the first two, especially Collusion, but this here is nothing by an eye sore to me. Yes, the man is hot, but it’s just so . . . cheesy. I guess you could say that the first two are also kind of cheesy with the faded naked torsos floating in the background, but they’re a cheese that I wouldn’t mind eating. This one just stinks. Sorry.
2. Just Ask by Mia Downing (Cover Artist Unknown): Superimposed gone wrong. Sales wise, I can see why romance books, of any genre, picture a naked half naked man on their covers. Women (and men) have eyes. They like what they see, they’re going to buy it, drool over it (I know I’m not the only one), but c’mon! If you’re going to have a half naked man on the cover, do a good job of it. I personally think the picture of the waterfall itself would have been just fine considering the fact that it’s really significant to the story.
3. A Fostered Love by Cameron Dane (Cover Art by Anne Cain): I was a little surprised by this one. After Ben‘s cover is amazing. It’s simple, pristine, and yet again significant to the story, so I can only ask . . . What the hell happened here? Again, don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind drooling over a naked man, except this is a book that I’d never want to have a hardcopy of. I’d have a lot of ‘splain’ to do if I ever took this out in public or, God forbid, if my mother saw it. That’s an awkward conversation that I have no desire whatsoever to have with my mother.
Well there you have it y’all. I showed you mine, now why don’t you do the same? In the comments below, tell me your top three favorite and least favorite covers out of the books that you read in February. Do you agree with mine? Disagree? Tell me, I really do want to know.
So, Catherine and I were going to do these Speed Dating wrap-ups as a combined post, but then my fellow blogger realized something: We read a lot. If we made it a joint post it would be really long. So it was decided that we’d each do our own. Basically what these posts are is us making a list of all the books we read within the month and just write one sentence telling our thoughts on it. That way, even if we decide not to do a review for a particular book because we just aren’t feeling it (doesn’t mean the book is bad, it could be one of the best books ever but we’re just able to get our feels out the way we want them), you’ll have at least a general idea of how well we liked the book (or not).
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