So, I just wanted to share some more awesome cover reveals
for 2018. Some of these have been released for a while, but I thought I’d share
since they’re just so pretty.
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Sky in the Deep
Publication
Date: April 24, 2018
Hardcover, 352 pages, Wednesday Books
Genres:
YA, Fantasy
Seventeen-year-old Eelyn’s world is
war. Raised to fight alongside her Aska clansmen in a generations-old blood
feud against the Riki, her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until
the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield—her brother, fighting with
the enemy—the brother she watched die five years ago.
Faced with her brother's betrayal,
she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki if she wants to make
it back to the fjord after the thaw. But when she begins to see herself in the
people she's been taught to hate, the world Eelyn once knew begins to crumble.
And after the village is raided by a ruthless clan many believe to be a myth,
Eelyn is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend who has tried
more than once to kill her. Together, they must end the blood feud between
their clans or watch their people be slaughtered.
A lush, Viking-age inspired fantasy
about loyalty, forgiveness, and the definition of family.
My Thoughts
This cover is just so beautiful. The gold with the girl in
the background. I’m super excited to get my hands on a finished copy of this
one. I don’t know a lot about it beyond the blurb, but I need a finished copy
on my shelves.
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Ash Princess
Publication Date: April 24, 2018
Hardcover, 432
pages, Delacorte Books
Genres: YA, Fantasy
Theodosia was six when her country
was invaded and her mother, the Queen of Flame and Fury, was murdered before
her eyes. Ten years later, Theo has learned to survive under the relentless
abuse of the Kaiser and his court as the ridiculed “Ash Princess.” Pretending
to be empty-headed and naive when she's not enduring brutal whippings, she
pushes down all other thoughts but one: Keep the Kaiser happy and he will keep
you safe.
When the Kaiser forces her to
execute her last hope of rescue, Theo can't keep her feelings and memories
pushed down any longer. She vows revenge, throwing herself into a plot to
seduce and murder the Kaiser's warrior son with the help of a group of
magically gifted and volatile rebels. But Theo doesn't expect to develop
feelings for the Prinz. Or for her rebel allies to challenge her friendship
with the one person who's been kind to her throughout the last hopeless decade:
her heart's sister, Cress.
Cornered into impossible choices
and unable to trust even those who are on her side, Theo will have to decide
how far she's willing to go to save her people and how much of herself she's
willing to sacrifice to become queen.
My Thoughts
Ok, so this one looks a lot like a grittier version of Red Queen, and I’m here for it. The
colors are beautiful, and I really hope the title gets a raised font. I just
want to creepily stroke my fingers over the finished dustjacket.
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(Lords of the Underworld #14)
Publication
Date: June 26, 2018
Hardcover, 384 pages, Harlequin
Genres:
Adult, Paranormal Romance
A searing Lords of the Underworld
tale by New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter, featuring a beastly prince and the
wife he will wage war to keep.
He is ice...
Puck the Undefeated, host of the
demon of Indifference, cannot experience emotion without punishment, so he
allows himself to feel nothing. Until her. According to ancient prophecy, she
is the key to avenging his past, saving his realm, and ruling as king. All he
must do? Steal her from the man she loves—and marry her.
She is fire...
Gillian Shaw has suffered many
tragedies in her too-short life, but nothing could have prepared the fragile
human for her transition into immortality. To survive, she must wed a horned
monster who both intrigues and frightens her...and become the warrior queen she
was born to be.
Together they burn.
As a rising sense of possession and
obsession overtake Puck, so does insatiable lust. The more he learns about his
clever, resourceful wife, the more he craves her. And the more time Gillian
spends with her protective husband, the more she aches for him. But the
prophecy also predicts an unhappily ever after. Can Puck defeat fate itself to
keep the woman who brought his deadened heart back to life? Or will they
succumb to destiny, losing each other…and everything they’ve been fighting for?
My Thoughts
The covers for this series are either hit or miss for me,
but I actually like this one. The swirly green with the very muscly and
attractive guy make me happy. ;)
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City of Lies
(Poison
Wars #1)
Publication Date: July 3, 2018
Hardcover, 512
pages, Tor
Genres: Adult, Fantasy
This amazing epic fantasy debut is
perfect for fans of Robin Hobb and Naomi Novik.
I was seven years old the first
time my uncle poisoned me... Outwardly, Jovan is the lifelong friend of the
Chancellor’s charming, irresponsible Heir. Quiet. Forgettable. In secret, he's
a master of poisons and chemicals, trained to protect the Chancellor’s family
from treachery. When the Chancellor succumbs to an unknown poison and an army
lays siege to the city, Jovan and his sister Kalina must protect the Heir and
save their city-state.
But treachery lurks in every
corner, and the ancient spirits of the land are rising...and angry.
My Thoughts
The blurb for this book does get me super excited, but the
cover… Wow! I’m a sucker for weaponry on covers. I guess because it always make
the protagonist look kicka$$.
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(The Dark Artifices #3)
Publication
Date: December 4, 2018
Hardcover, Margaret K. McElderry Books
Genres:
YA, Paranormal
Los Angeles, 2012. It’s been five
years since the events of the Mortal Instruments when Nephilim stood poised on
the brink of oblivion and Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs lost her parents. After
the blood and violence she witnessed as a child, Emma has dedicated her life to
the eradication of demons and being the best, fastest and deadliest
Shadowhunter since Jace Lightwood. Raised in the Los Angeles Institute, Emma is
paired as a parabatai with her best friend, Julian. As Emma hunts those who
caused the death of her parents, the trail they’re following leads back to
those they’ve always been taught to trust. At the same time, Emma is falling in
love with Julian — her closest friend and, because he is her parabatai, the one
person in the world she’s absolutely forbidden by Shadowhunter Law to love. Set
against the glittering backdrop of present-day Los Angeles, Emma must learn to
trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches
from the warlock-run nightclubs of the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that
pounds the beaches of Santa Monica.
My Thoughts
So, the covers for this trilogy haven’t been the greatest,
but I’m feeling pretty good about this one. It’s not my favorite of the overall
Shadowhunter world (that honor belongs to the new paperback versions of TMI and
TID), but it’s pretty in its own way.
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Heart of Thorns
(Heart
of Thorns #1)
Publication Date: July 31, 2018
Hardcover, 320
pages, Katherine Tegen
Genres: YA, Fantasy
In the ancient river
kingdom, touch is a battlefield, bodies the instruments of war.
Seventeen-year-old Mia Rose has pledged her life to hunting Gwyrach:
women who can manipulate flesh, bones, breath, and blood.
Not women. Demons. The same demons who killed her mother without a single scratch.
But when Mia's father suddenly announces her marriage to the prince, she is forced to trade in her knives and trousers for a sumptuous silk gown. Only after the wedding goes disastrously wrong does she discover she has dark, forbidden magic—the very magic she has sworn to destroy.
Not women. Demons. The same demons who killed her mother without a single scratch.
But when Mia's father suddenly announces her marriage to the prince, she is forced to trade in her knives and trousers for a sumptuous silk gown. Only after the wedding goes disastrously wrong does she discover she has dark, forbidden magic—the very magic she has sworn to destroy.
My Thoughts
Swirly gold designs on a white background? I’m digging it.
Again, it’s not my favorite cover in the world, but it’s very pretty. It
reminds me a bit of Marissa Meyer’s Heartless
cover.
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Alright, there you
have it. These are some of the most recent cover reveals for 2018 titles. What
do you think? Are there any other covers you’re excited to add to your shelves
next year?
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