2015-09-10



Welcome to Cover Snark, where the people are snarky and the covers quiver in fear. Since I don’t write many snarky book reviews here on A Reader of Fictions, Cover Snark is my outlet. If you click on the title of the book, where possible, I’ve linked to Goodreads. Clicking on the cover itself will show you the cover in a larger size, in most cases. Feel free to love covers I hate and vice versa. Let me know your thoughts in the comments!

Shiny and New:

1. Enter Title Here – Rahul Kanakia

Thoughts: I just imagine that that Kanakia couldn’t come up with a title, so that was the stand-in and then everyone was like OMG SO BRILLIANT SO META and it became the actual title.

2. Loud Is How I Love You (Hub City #1) – Mercy Brown

Thoughts: This isn’t what NA cover guys usually look like. Down for guitar player in a flannel.

3. Forgetting August – J. L. Berg

Thoughts: It’s like you can see him trying to remember what her name is. Ginger? Right? It’s Ginger? Poor August.

4. Marked – Laura Williams McCaffrey

Thoughts: This just looks a lot like covers from the past. That’s also a very narrow, unthreatening fist.

5. Air – Ryan Gattis

Thoughts: Because it’s sideways, it took me a while to find the title. It’s cool but also WHY SIDEWAYS?

6. Nothing Up My Sleeve – Diana López

Thoughts: BUT WHAT IS THAT IN YOUR PANT LEG, HMMMM?

7. Rodent – Lisa Lawrence

Thoughts: BURN THE HOUSE DOWN IT CANNOT BE SAVED RUN

8. Crusoe (The Darkness of the Stars #1) – Andrew Lane

Thoughts: The detailing on the door/wall/fence is simply lovely.

9. White Lies, Black Dare – Joanna Nadin

Thoughts: You know I am a fan of the covers with just a few colors. The included shadows make everything feel eerier.

10. A Fierce and Subtle Poison – Samantha Mabry

Thoughts: Feels a bit like the less awesome sibling of Wink Poppy Midnight tbh.

11. Betrayed (The Arnaud Legacy #2) – Lynn Carthage

Thoughts: She yells at the retreating back of her betrayer, “I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU STOLE MY HAIRBRUSH. I TRUSTED YOU!”

12. A Tyranny of Petticoats – Jessica Spotswood, ed

Thoughts: BEST. TITLE. EVER.

13. The Girl in the Well Is Me – Karen Rivers

Thoughts: And those girls with eerily sentient hair just watch me and gossip about me. How rude.

14. Zero-G (Zero-G #1) – William Shatner & Jeff Rovin

Thoughts: Damn it, Jim.

15. The Thirteenth World (Corridor #2) – A.N. Willis

Thoughts: Whatever she finds, at least she’ll face it with A+ lipstick game.

16. Join – Steve Toutonghi

Thoughts: Yes I will enlist with whatever is this pretty. *flies into the light*

17. The Telling – Alexandra Sirowy

Thoughts: Also she looks like she’s about to sneeze underwater.

18. Fatal Beauty – Nazarea Andrews

Thoughts: Heels are murder.

19. Who’s Afraid? – Maria Lewis

Thoughts: KAORU?!?!?!?

20. The King Slayer (The Witch Hunter #2) – Virginia Boecker

Thoughts: I’m a big fan of this. Mega fairy tale vibe. Doesn’t fit with the first cover or what I read of the first book but whatever pretty.

21. A Week of Mondays – Jessica Brody

Thoughts: It’s like Groundhog Day but with Monday. What inhuman cruelty.

22. The Cresswell Plot – Eliza Wass

Thoughts: But it leaves the warped Barbies out for public view. Misdirection!

23. Half Lost (The Half Bad Trilogy #3) – Sally Green

Thoughts: No, that tree is definitively lost to flame.

24. Dreamers Often Lie – Jacqueline West

Thoughts: It looks like she ripped herself and her nice dress into shreds. O_O

25. How Hard Can Love Be? (The Normal Series #2) – Holly Bourne

Thoughts: THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID.

26. Glass Shatters – Michelle Meyers

Thoughts: One hundred percent love, despite the creepy eye peering out at me. Okay, ninety-nine percent love.

27. The Push – Sara V. Zook

Thoughts: NOW KISS made into a book cover.

28. Romancing the Nerd – Leah Rae Miller

Thoughts: I’m thinking she’s the one doing the romancing? She doesn’t look especially nerdy. Though maybe bracelets are the current nerd teen fashion idk.

29. Titans – Victoria Scott

Thoughts: Aside from the fact that I prefer covers not to be vertical like this, LOVE. Those horses look like they should be pulling carriages to Hogwarts or carrying Nazgul.

30. Explorers of the Wild – Cale Atkinson

Thoughts: I don’t usually include picture books but OMG LOOK AT DA CUTE!

31. Sidekick – Natalie Whipple

Thoughts: FYI guys, I’m always down for friendship coming with a side of bacon.

32. Surge (The Taking #0.5) – Melissa West

Thoughts: Dude: heyyyy baby, wanna reenact that Spider-Man scene?

33. Throwing Stones – Robin Reardon

Thoughts: Interestingly, he’s protecting only his right eye from the stones.

34. Black River Falls – Jeff Hirsch

Thoughts: DYSTOPIAN RIVER FALLS.

35. Fire Falling (Air Awakens #2) – Elise Kova

Thoughts: This series has the BEST small pub covers ever.

36. The Poet and the Prophecy (Magic University #4) – Cecilia Tan

Thoughts: Keira Knightley???

37. I Love Him, I Love Him Not (Westgate Prep #2) – Ella Martin

Thoughts: Um, no, child. Falling in love does not mean you have to lose your best friend. Awesome outfit and hair, though.

38. Vicarious (Vicarious #1) – Paula Stokes

Thoughts: I do not want to live vicariously through her. That does not look fun to me.

39. The Unquiet Past (Secrets) – Kelley Armstrong

Thoughts: The past is coming for your brains.

Cover Battles:

1. Sense and Sensuality (The Gravesmeres #3) – Alicia Quigley

Original vs. Redesign: A former WTF redesigned to be much more respectable, though that young lady’s parents might not agree.

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2. The Walled City – Ryan Graudin

US Hardback vs. US Paperback: Always running on your knife is close enough to carrying it, right? Yeah, probs.

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3. The White Rose (The Lone City #2) – Amy Ewing

US vs. UK: Whyyyy are those girls on fire while rose petals rain down on them?

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4. Silence Is Goldfish – Annabel Pitcher

UK vs. US: Oh no, most annoying earworm ever. SILENCE IS GOLDFISH GOLDFISH BUT MY FINS STILL SWIM (or something idk)

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5. The Art of Being Normal – Lisa Williamson

UK vs. German vs. US: RainBOW DOWN to this awesome cover, bitches!

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WTF of the Week:

WTF of the Week began as a special category for one cover I saw, but was so popular it became a recurring feature. Here, I highlight covers, both new and old, that I’ve found, which, upon viewing, made me either snort or say something along the lines of “Dear God, what is that thing?” If you would like to be part of the fun and have spotted a truly hilarious or horrifying cover, submit it and your snark to readeroffictions@gmail.com and you might be included, though I will filter through submissions and limit the number of entries per week.

1. Black Crow (Raven #2) – J.L. Weil

Thoughts: When you try to do the sexy America Singer armpit sniff and fail.

2. Mark of the Necromancer (Sabrina Grayson) – Tamsin Silver

Thoughts: Well, something should have gotten fired, but it wasn’t the left side of this atrocious cover.

3. Glitter Ponies (Clockpunk Wizard #4) – Lita Burke

Thoughts: GLITTER PONIES!!!!

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