There have been a bajillion cover reveals these past few
weeks, so I wanted to share my thoughts on some of them. These are all YA books
releasing in 2018 or 2019.
Also, because there are so many of these reveals, I’m going
to be doing a part one and part two to this post. Part two will be up this
coming Sunday.
(Origin
#1)
Publication Date: October 30, 2018
Publication Date: October 30, 2018
Hardcover, 368 pages, Tor Teen
Genres:
YA, Sci-Fi
When seventeen-year-old Evie Dasher
is caught up in a raid at a notorious club known as one of the few places where
humans and the surviving Luxen can mingle freely, she meets Luc, an unnaturally
beautiful guy she initially assumes is a Luxen...but he is in fact something
much more powerful. Her growing attraction for Luc will lead her deeper and
deeper into a world she'd only heard about, a world where everything she
thought she knew will be turned on its head...
#1 New York Times, USA Today, and
internationally bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout returns to the
universe of the Lux in this brand new series, featuring beloved characters both
new and old.
My Thoughts
I don’t even know what to say when it comes to this cover. I’ve
been anticipating seeing it since I first heard about the book, but I’m just so
underwhelmed. I actually liked the placeholder ARC cover more than this one.
This cover is too happy and contemporary looking, almost like a prom-type cover
with cutout stars. It’s the complete opposite vibe from what the book is about:
deadly paranormal beings.
***
Archenemies
(Renegades #2)
Publication Date: November 6, 2018
Hardcover, 560
pages, Feiwel & Friends
Genres: YA, Sci-Fi
The Renegades Trilogy continues, in
this fiercely awaited second installment after the New York Times-bestselling
Renegades by Marissa Meyer, author of the Lunar Chronicles.
Time is running out.
Together, they can save the world.
But they each other's worst
nightmare.
In Renegades, Nova and Adrian (aka
Insomnia and Sketch) fought the battle of their lives against the Anarchist
known as the Detonator. It was a short-lived victory.
The Anarchists still have a secret
weapon, one that Nova believes will protect her. The Renegades also have a
strategy for overpowering the Anarchists, but both Nova and Adrian understand
that it could mean the end of Gatlon City - and the world - as they know it.
My Thoughts
I don’t like this cover as much as I liked the first book’s,
but its still good. And it matches, so that’s a big plus. I haven’t read the
series yet, but I also think the vibe of the series matches the vibe of the
book, from what I hear.
***
(Flame in the Mist #2)
Publication
Date: June 5, 2018
Hardcover, Viking
Genres:
YA, Fantasy
A YA fantasy set in a magical
variation of 19th-century Italy.
Teodora DiSangro, daughter of a
mafia-like family, must master her hidden powers to transform into a boy and
plunge into the dangerous politics of her newly unified country, while her
shape-shifting multi-gendered magic tutor pulls her heart —and her fate —in
another direction.
My Thoughts
This cover is kind of eh upon first glance. The
gold/yellow/orange-ish background with swirling patterns is not super
intriguting. Neither is the feather thing in the middle. What I do like about
this cover, though, is the title font. If it’s a raised font, it would really
move the cover stand out. However, if it’s not, I think that’s a wasted
opportunity by the publisher’s design department.
Other than the cover and a brief synopsis, I know nothing
about this book. I didn’t even know I had it on my Goodreads list until the
newly revealed cover popped up in my 2019 releases shelf.
***
Buffy Season 12: The Reckoning
Publication Date: December 24, 2018
Paperback,
112 pages, Dark Horse
Genres: Graphic Novel, Paranormal
Joss Whedon's Buffy and crew are
confronted by a future Big Bad who has travelled to the present, intent on
stealing the power of the Slayers, becoming all-powerful, and destroying the
world as we know it!
The lives of Buffy and the Scoobies
haven't been too eventful for a while--at least as far as fighting demons and
the forces of darkness are concerned. But that all changes when Angel brings
news of an amassing a force that must be reckoned with: Wolfram & Hart, a
legion of demons, and Harth, vampire from the future. Buffy knows Harth and his
twin sister--the Slayer, Fray--from her meeting with them and Dark Willow in
the future. But this army that has been gathered is more than she and her crew
were expecting . . . Narrowly escaping an initial encounter, the gang travels
to the future to recruit Fray and learn of their dismal fate should they fail
to defeat this legion that has invaded the present. Harth is after the power of
the Slayers, and being in possession of all their memories, he knows how to
rewrite the outcome of this ultimate battle before it occurs. This is the
reckoning . . . and it could be the end of Buffy, Fray, and all the Slayers,
forever.
My Thoughts
Okay, okay. So this one isn’t YA. It’s an adult graphic
novel. But it’s Buffy, so it’s also kind of YA…? Not sure how to classify it
beyond that.
I’m currently on Season 9 right now, so I still have a ways
to go before I can get to this one, and I’m hoping to parse the three seasons I
have left over the upcoming months ‘til December. Just so I can not be left
hanging after season 11 ends. As for this cover, though, I’m digging it. Not
sure why Buffy’s hair is so white, but the rest looks bada$$.
***
(DC Icons #3)
Publication
Date: August 9, 2018
Hardcover, 384 pages, Penguin
Genres:
YA, Sci-Fi
The highly anticipated
coming-of-age story of kick-ass super hero: CATWOMAN by international
bestselling author Sarah J. Maas.
When the Bat's away, the Cat will
play. It's time to see how many lives this cat really has. . . .
Two years after escaping Gotham
City's slums, Selina Kyle returns as the mysterious and wealthy Holly Vanderhees.
She quickly discovers that with Batman off on a vital mission, Batwing is left
to hold back the tide of notorious criminals. Gotham City is ripe for the
taking.
Meanwhile, Luke Fox wants to prove
he has what it takes to help people in his role as Batwing. He targets a new
thief on the prowl who seems cleverer than most. She has teamed up with Poison
Ivy and Harley Quinn, and together they are wreaking havoc. This Catwoman may
be Batwing's undoing.
In this third DC Icons
book--following Leigh Bardugo's Wonder Woman: Warbringer and Marie Lu's Batman:
Nightwalker--Selina is playing a desperate game of cat and mouse, forming
unexpected friendships and entangling herself with Batwing by night and her
devilishly handsome neighbor Luke Fox by day. But with a dangerous threat from
the past on her tail, will she be able to pull off the heist that's closest to
her heart?
My Thoughts
As I’ve mentioned umpteen times on this blog, I’m collecting
the UK covers for this DC Icons series. They just look so much better. While I
do love the pink on this one, I wish it wasn’t black. Only because the Batman
UK cover was also black, so the Wonder Woman book is going to look a little out
of place next to two black books. I guess if the Superman book is red and blue,
that’ll help, right?
***
Wildcard
(Warcross #2)
Publication Date: September 18, 2018
Hardcover, 352
pages, G.P. Putnam
Genres: YA, Sci-Fi
Emika Chen barely made it out of
the Warcross Championships alive. Now that she knows the truth behind Hideo's
new NeuroLink algorithm, she can no longer trust the one person she's always
looked up to, who she once thought was on her side.
Determined to put a stop to Hideo's
grim plans, Emika and the Phoenix Riders band together, only to find a new
threat lurking on the neon-lit streets of Tokyo. Someone's put a bounty on
Emika's head, and her sole chance for survival lies with Zero and the
Blackcoats, his ruthless crew. But Emika soon learns that Zero isn't all that
he seems--and his protection comes at a price.
Caught in a web of betrayal, with the
future of free will at risk, just how far will Emika go to take down the man
she loves?
My Thoughts
I haven’t read the first book, so I don’t know much about
the duology, but I like this cover. Both Warcross
and Wildcard have good, solid covers.
They aren’t my favorite, but they also aren’t my least favorite, either. They’re
just good.
***
Those are some recently revealed 2018 covers. What do you
think? Do you like them?
Oh, and stay tuned for more cover thoughts on Sunday.
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