Time for more cover reveals! And more discussion about said
cover reveals! Are you excited?
(Gods of War #1)
Publication
Date: October 23, 2018
Mass Market, 384 pages, HQN
Genres:
Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Fantasy
Gena Showalter, the New York Times
bestselling author who brought you the Lords of the Underworld, introduces a
scorching new paranormal romance series… Gods of War.
Knox of Iviland has spent his life
competing in the All Wars, where vicious warriors with supernatural powers
fight to the death to claim new realms. One winner takes everything—and all
losers die. Enslaved as a child for his ability to control shadows, the most
ruthless champion in history will stop at nothing to kill his king. But first
he must win the battle for Earth. When a fearsome weapon imprisons every
combatant in ice, centuries pass without progress…until she walks in.
Vale London craves a fun arctic
getaway with her foster sister before settling down to open a bakery.
Street-tough but vulnerable, she is unprepared to find ancient gods escaping a
frozen cave—merciless beings who target her when she inadvertently enters their
war.
Though Vale is now his enemy, Knox
is consumed with lust and a fierce need to protect her. But only one combatant
can prove victorious, and he will have to choose: live for freedom, or die for
love.
My Thoughts
The colors are very pretty for this one, and the model is
super nice to look at, but I don’t know. I was expecting a little more. It’s
kind of the typical romance cover. I was crossing my fingers for more
fantasy/paranormal than that, though.
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Publication Date: March 19, 2019
Hardcover, 352
pages, HarperTeen
Genres: YA, Retelling, Fantasy
Robin of Locksley is dead.
When news comes that he's fallen in
battle at the King's side in the Holy Land, Maid Marian doesn’t know how she’ll
go on. Betrothed to Robin, she was free to be herself, to flaunt the stifling
rules of traditional society and share an equal voice with her beloved when it
came to caring for the people of her land.
Now Marian is alone, with no voice
of her own. The people of Locksley, persecuted by the Sheriff of Nottingham,
are doomed to live in poverty or else face death by hanging. The dreadful Guy
of Gisborne, the Sherriff’s right hand, wishes to step into Robin’s shoes as
Lord of Locksley, and Marian’s fiancé. Society demands that she accept her
fate, and watch helplessly as her people starve.
When Marian dons Robin's green
cloak, and takes up his sword and bow, she never intended that anyone should
mistake her for Robin, returned from the Holy Land as a vigilante. She never
intended that the masked, cloaked figure she created should stand as a beacon
of hope and justice to peasant and noble alike. She never intended to become a
legend.
But all of Nottingham is crying out
for a savior. So Marian must choose to make her own fate and become her own
hero...
Robin Hood.
My Thoughts
This one has a really pretty cover. I’m actually very
intrigued now. The other retelling book Spooner wrote, Hunted, has a similar cover, and it’s pretty too. I’m thinking I
should definitely get my hands on this one. I liked Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen, so I’ll probably enjoy this one.
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20th Anniversary
US Harry Potter Covers
My Thoughts
Umm… Okay, so I’ve never been a fan of Brian Selznick’s
artwork. It’s just too dry for me. The black and white is so boring for Harry
Potter. It doesn’t fit with the tone of Hogwarts. I actually don’t plan on
buying these. I’ll stick to the other HP editions.
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Those are some recently revealed covers. What do you think?
Do you like them?
I do like the cover of Sherwood!
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