And yes, I know this is a week late. Shhhhhh.
10. The Scorpio Races
I love the simplicity of this cover. It's beautiful.
09. Above
I love the cover for Above. The cover itself looks like a still from a beautiful movie, and I love how it ties into the book without being a complete scene from it. (Or maybe it is! I don't know; I haven't read Above yet.)
08. Matched
I don't like Matched as a book - something about love triangles and weak main characters, I think; I don't remember what - but this cover's simplicity makes me flail with love. The symbolism is great, too!
07. The Hunger Games series
The simplicity and the symbolism in these covers makes me flail viciously in writhing fits of love. The contrast in the colors is stunning. It makes me want all of these as posters. (One day, one day!)
06. The Firelight series
I absolutely adore these covers. The makeup is gorgeous, and I love how each of them represent a character important to the story. (I hear that the next one will be Az. I'm excited!)
05. Beauty Queens
This cover doesn't seem awesome until you realize that the bullets aren't bullets. They're lipstick. And it's awesome.
04. Wither
I love this cover. The photography itself is stunning, but the way each individual item - all relevant to the plot! - is highlighted and pulled together is amazing.
03. Nightshade
There's no words for how stunning I think this cover is. The color choice, the model, the flowers, the font - it's amazing. I don't understand why they redid the covers to that weird merging thing that looks like somebody took five minutes in Photoshop to do when they had this piece of artwork!
02. The Harry Potter series
This is another instance of beautiful artwork for book covers. I'm ridiculously happy that Scholastic never did movie covers for the books; they're all so beautiful and perfect as is. They capture the essence of each book, and I love that.
01. The Theatre Illuminata series
I adore these covers. Each of them depict a scene from the novels and they're so beautifully and artistically done. I can't help but adore them. Look at them! They're gorgeous!
I KNOW (about Nightshade) what in the world were they thinking?? The cover they originally had for Wolfsbane was even more gorgeous, but someone up there wanted to go cheesy YA. Bum deal. And I also have a soft spot for the HP series. I never really put two and two together that they never did movie covers. It really would make me wanna puke. Good top ten list! :)
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Great choices!
ReplyDeleteBeauty Queens and Matched are two of my all-time favorites.
I totally never thought about the absence of Harry Potter movie-style book covers!!! But now that you mention it, I'm realizing they never did, and I'm so thankful. I hate movie covers, especially when I see someone reading one, I instantly label them as a late-to-the-game-saw-the-movie-first-reader-loser (i know that's not fair...but it's what i think).
ReplyDeleteI love Wither's cover!!!
I also love the original cover of Wrapped by Jennifer Bradbury, but then THE HORRIBLE IDIOTS CHANGED THE COVER TO SOME STUPID DUMB ONE THAT IS SO UGLY.
The Theatre Illuminata series is definitely my favourites. When I dream secret dreams about the cover of my first book, I imagine beautiful artwork like that.
ReplyDeleteThe Theatre Illuminata covers are absolutely gorgeous! I really like the Scorpio Races cover too. It's simply yet the color is quite nice.
ReplyDeleteLOVE Scorpio Races, Matched, and the HP and HG covers too. Totally not with you on Beauty Queens, lol, but that's okay.
ReplyDeleteYou know what covers we really like? The new Curseworkers covers. They don't tell you that much about the books, unfortunately, but they could totally rock it as posters on our wall.
Wow, so glad I came across this blog! I have read the Nightshade books and the Hunger Games trilogy but not the other books. This will now be remedied! Thanks for the great review. I also have a book review blog, check it out! http://endlessdaysofbooks.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteI'm not fussed on the American covers for the Harry Potter books, I prefer the British ones. The Theatre Illuminata ones are amazing however. I could look at them for ages.
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