Top Ten Book Covers of 2011
1. Unearthly, by Cynthia Hand
(Unearthly, #1)
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: January 4th, 2011
In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees . . . .
Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Figuring out what that is, though, isn't easy.Her visions of a raging forest fire and an alluring stranger lead her to a new school in a new town. When she meets Christian, who turns out to be the boy of her dreams (literally), everything seems to fall into place—and out of place at the same time. Because there's another guy, Tucker, who appeals to Clara's less angelic side.As Clara tries to find her way in a world she no longer understands, she encounters unseen dangers and choices she never thought she'd have to make—between honesty and deceit, love and duty, good and evil. When the fire from her vision finally ignites, will Clara be ready to face her destiny?
This cover is gorgeous! Purple is my favorite color. The cover model fits Clara perfectly and I really love her dress. Also, the purple with the trees in the background very lightly makes it seem almost smoky, and with the mountains in the background and the font? Amazing. =)
(Angelfire, #1)
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Release Date: February 15, 2011
First there are nightmares.Every night Ellie is haunted by terrifying dreams of monstrous creatures that are hunting her, killing her.Then come the memories.When Ellie meets Will, she feels on the verge of remembering something just beyond her grasp. His attention is intense and romantic, and Ellie feels like her soul has known him for centuries. On her seventeenth birthday, on a dark street at midnight, Will awakens Ellie's power, and she knows that she can fight the creatures that stalk her in the grim darkness. Only Will holds the key to Ellie's memories, whole lifetimes of them, and when she looks at him, she can no longer pretend anything was just a dream.Now she must hunt.Ellie has power that no one can match, and her role is to hunt and kill the reapers that prey on human souls. But in order to survive the dangerous and ancient battle of the angels and the Fallen, she must also hunt for the secrets of her past lives and truths that may be too frightening to remember.
Cover model is the perfect Ellie. Love the sword, the clothes and of course the fog! Ellie looks totally kick-ass! Which, she totally is!
3. Where She Went, by Gayle Forman
(If I Stay, #2)
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Release Date: April 5, 2011
It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.
Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future - and each other.
Absolutely beautiful! Can't really say much else than that. Love her hair and I love the font! I've only read the first book, so I really need to read this one soon!
4. Tempest Rising, by Tracy Deebs
(Tempest #1)
Publisher: Walker books for Young Readers
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Tempest Maguire wants nothing more than to surf the killer waves near her California home; continue her steady relationship with her boyfriend, Mark; and take care of her brothers and surfer dad. But Tempest is half mermaid, and as her seventeenth birthday approaches, she will have to decide whether to remain on land or give herself to the ocean like her mother. The pull of the water becomes as insistent as her attraction to Kai, a gorgeous surfer whose uncanny abilities hint at an otherworldly identity as well. And when Tempest does finally give in to the water's temptation and enters a fantastical underwater world, she finds that a larger destiny awaits her-and that the entire ocean's future hangs in the balance.
Love this cover! The blue in the background looks like the ocean from above to me. The cover model fits Tempest's description well, looove the tattoo and the bit of tail you see. Beautiful! And the font and font color is very pretty and goes well with the cover.
5. Hourglass, by Myra McEntire
(Hourglass, #1)
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Release Date: June 14, 2011
One hour to rewrite the past . . .
For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn’t there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents’ death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She’s tried everything, but the visions keep coming back.
So when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson’s willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may change her past.
Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he’s around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should have happened?
Haven't read this book yet, but have been meaning to. This cover is just stunning and very cool. I think it fits well with the synopsis of the book. I love the damask wallpaper in the back and how she's walking down the wall towards the floor. When I first saw the cover a while ago, I thought the floor was a door. But then as I kept seeing it I realized it was the floor! Also, I love how the font is in the middle and the font is cool.
6. Soul Thief, by Jana Oliver
(The Demon Trapper's, #2)
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Riley Blackthorne is beginning to learn that there are worse things than death by demon. And love is just one of them…Seventeen-year-old Riley has about had it up to here. After the devastating battle at the Tabernacle, trappers are dead and injured, her boyfriend Simon is gravely injured, and now her beloved late father’s been illegally poached from his grave by a very powerful necromancer. As if that’s not enough, there's Ori, one sizzling hot freelance demon hunter who’s made himself Riley’s unofficial body guard, and Beck, a super over-protective “friend” who acts more like a grouchy granddad. With all the hassles, Riley’s almost ready to leave Atlanta altogether.But as Atlanta’s demon count increases, the Vatican finally sends its own Demon Hunters to take care of the city’s “little” problem, and pandemonium breaks loose. Only Riley knows that she might be the center of Hell’s attention: an extremely powerful Grade 5 demon is stalking her, and her luck can't last forever…
LOVE the blue, and the graveyard in the background at the top. The cover model is the perfect Riley. Also, love the two different types of fonts for the title.
7. Possess, by Gretchen McNeil
Publisher: Balzer+Bray
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Fifteen-year-old Bridget Liu just wants to be left alone: by her mom, by the cute son of a local police sergeant, and by the eerie voices she can suddenly and inexplicably hear. Unfortunately for Bridget, it turns out the voices are demons – and Bridget has the rare ability to banish them back to whatever hell they came from.
Terrified to tell people about her new power, Bridget confides in a local priest who enlists her help in increasingly dangerous cases of demonic possession. But just as she is starting to come to terms with her new power, Bridget receives a startling message from one of the demons. Now Bridget must unlock the secret to the demons' plan before someone close to her winds up dead – or worse, the human vessel of a demon king.
Haven't read this yet, but I want to badly. Love the colors and the trees on the girls face, the cover is just perfect for the synopsis. I won a bottlecap necklace for this book. =) I LOVE it.
Publisher:Little, Brown and Co.
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.
In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.
Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out.
When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?
I've heard this is amazing, but haven't had the chance to read it yet. I love the darkness of the cover and the white font and the feather mask is beautiful! I want one! Love how you can only see one eye and it's half covered. Need to read this book!
9. Dearly, Departed, by Lia Habel
Publisher: Del Rey Publishing
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Love can never die.
Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead—or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie?
The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria—a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune and now plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate could be more horrible—until she’s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses.
But fate is just getting started with Nora. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she’s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting “The Laz,” a fatal virus that raises the dead—and hell along with them. Hardly ideal circumstances. Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble . . . and dead. But as is the case with the rest of his special undead unit, luck and modern science have enabled Bram to hold on to his mind, his manners, and his body parts. And when his bond of trust with Nora turns to tenderness, there’s no turning back. Eventually, they know, the disease will win, separating the star-crossed lovers forever. But until then, beating or not, their hearts will have what they desire.
LOOOVE! The colors, the clothing, the font, the hair, the umbrella, the scenery in the background. It's just beautiful! Haven't read this book yet, but I'm dying to read it!
10. Shatter Me, by Tahereh Mafi
(Shatter Me, #1)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.
The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war-- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.
Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.
This books sounds AMAZING. I've been dying to read it, but haven't been able to snag a copy. I have it on hold at the library, but it's taking forever. I have loved this cover from the very start. I heard it's shiny in person too. I want it! The dress and cover model is beautiful and it just seems to fit the synopsis perfectly. I also really like the title font. Everything is just GORGEOUS!
Way too many honorable mentions to name, so I'll be leaving it out of this post. I'll maybe make a post another time of some more of my favorites, but since I still feel like crap and can't stop coughing/sneezing, I'm not going to name them all.
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