Cover Coveting (12)

 
Cover art is found from Goodreads, Wicked Scribes, ATUF, social networks, and other sources.
***All cover art may not be final.***

Well I picked up some more covers to share! 

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Chaos Unleashed by Pippa DaCosta

Previous book(s) in series:

Goodreads | Amazon

Series: Chaos Rises, book 2 Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Urban Fantasy Shera’s thoughts: Fits the series well! It's kind of awesome how it's now officially I thing to change color schemes each book for Urban Fantasy. It's fun to see who does it better.

Cold Summer by Gwen Cole

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Series: N/A  Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Young Adult Time Travel Shera’s thoughts: This feels like Claudia Gray's Firebird series covers.   So of course I like it! Not to mention that I've become a sucker for reflections.

Dawn Study by Maria V. Snyder

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Series: Soulfinders, book 3 (AKA The Chronicles of Ixia, book 9)  Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: High Fantasy Shera’s thoughts: Ah, I lovely red cape! Love that the dress is a different shade. However, the cover model is just working the pout just a little to hard.

Given to the Sea by Mindy McGinnis

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Series: N/A  Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Young Adult High Fantasy Shera’s thoughts: Ahhhhhh! This is just so stunning. I love it when the covers are so ambitious! Water is such a cool element to manipulate because the possibilities are endless.  I love this feeling of a tower in the middle of the sea. Oh, and the title typography is perfect.

Spindle Fire by Lexa Hillyer

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Series: N/A  Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Young Adult Fairytale Retelling Shera’s thoughts: Oooo, I really love how the crown is hanging on the title! Very cool. It's a very subtle cover and I like how all the elements were merged and thought over. Just looking at it I can see how much thought went into it.

The Cursed Queen by Sarah Fine

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Series: The Imposter Queen, book 2 Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Young Adult High Fantasy Shera’s thoughts: Oooooo! I love this! She looks so badass and wild! The last cover the ladies on it looked so polished. Now we're getting into some hard core stuff.

The Edge of the Blade by Jeffe Kennedy

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Series: Uncharted Realms, book 2 Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: High Fantasy Shera’s thoughts: Ooooo, so bad ass. Great cover. Though the legs and feet feel weird because of the smoke/blur affects.

The Great Pursuit by Wendy Higgins

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Series: Eurona Duology, book 2 Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Shera’s thoughts: Well it fits the first book well, I like the snow cover forest. I don't like the look of the girl as much. Something just feels off.

The Hypnotic City by Andrea Berthot

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Goodreads | Amazon

Series: The Gold and Gaslight Chronicles, book 2 Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Steampunk Shera’s thoughts: Going from London to America! At  I really love the light of tis cover. Not to mention that cute yellow dress.

The Operator by Kim Harrison

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Series: The Peri Reed Chronicles, book 2 Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Urban Fantasy Shera’s thoughts: Wow, I'm so happy to see that Harrison's series will be continuing. Oooo, I really like this cover a lot. It has a kind of sci-fi early 90s action vibe. Very cool.

The Turncoat's Gambit by Andrea Cremer

Previous book(s) in series:

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Series: The Inventor's Secret, book 3 Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Young Adult Steampunk Shera’s thoughts: Honestly I thought I had already posted this one!! I looked and looked, but could only find my post for the cover makeover of the first two. Either way this is my favorite one yet!

The Valiant by Lesley Livingston

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Series: N/A  Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Young Adult Historical Shera’s thoughts: Ah, female gladiator cover! Yeah. there's just something off about her legs . . . Other than that I just love it!

Wednesday Wishes

Well my reading craving has hit! Hopefully it will turn into a book binge that will get me caught up on my yearly reading challenge!

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Hidden Blade by Pippa DaCosta

Get it: Amazon | Goodreads
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Series: Soul Eater, book 1

"They call me devil, liar, thief. In whispers, they call me Soul Eater. They’re right. I’m all those things—and more."

Kicked out of the underworld and cursed to walk this earth for all eternity, Ace Dante finds solace in helping others avoid the wrath of the gods.

But when warrior-bitch, Queen of Cats, and Ace's ex-wife, Bastet, hires him to stop whoever is slaughtering her blessed women, Ace is caught between two of the most powerful deities to have ever existed: Isis and Osiris.

The once-revered gods aren’t dead.

They’re back.

And Ace is in their way.

Welcome to a New York where the ancient gods roam.

Soul Eater? Soul Eater! Yes, my mind went immediately to the anime! Then it noticed that this was Pippa DaCosta's new series! Wow! Um, sold! DaCosta blows my mind and then *bleeps* it to mush.

What a cover.

Cover Coveting (6)

 
Cover art is found from Goodreads, Wicked Scribes, ATUF, social networks, and other sources.
***All cover art may not be final.***

It's hot guys. I'm gonna cool down with some cool covers. (Lame I know, but I couldn't resist. It's really hot.)

So my Open Live Writer is finally working well! Yeah! So expect the regural week day posts to continue.

I've been cramming all the covers I find in one post on Monday, but for the ease of adding them I'm breaking up the covers this week to Monday and Friday. I know I don't have an official Cover Coveting day, so heads up!

Now let's look at some pretty covers.

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A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi

Previous book(s) in series:

Goodreads | Amazon

Series: The Star-Touched Queen, book 2 Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Shera’s thoughts: Holy book covers this is stunning!! Just when I think they've over done the whole dress covers—boom—a gorgeous cover comes out. Guys, this cover is everything!

Black Souls by Nicole Castroman

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Series: Blackhearts, book 2 Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Young Adult Historical Shera’s thoughts: This is cool. Nothing like the awesomeness of the first cover, but still very cool. Yes, I know that the first cover would be really hard to beat.

Clanless by Jennifer Jenkins

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Series: Nameless, book 2  Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Young Adult Dystopian Shera’s thoughts: First off I love when vertical text is done so brilliantly! Wow, this one is just as dramatic as the last one! So cool. Honestly I thought a white theme would have been really hard to make good. However, I think it's just all kinds of awesome. I like that the black theme of the first cover looks smooth. This one is rough! Great concepts.

Legacy of the Demon by Diana Rowland

Previous book(s) in series:

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Series: Cara Gillian, book 8  Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Urban Fantasy Shera’s thoughts: *sighs* I love these cover. I adore them, no I practically worship. These are pretty much up there with the Mercy Thompson covers and other like it, where I just can't wait to see the artwork. Heck when the series ends I'll mourn for the loss of more covers and story. That's how good they are.

Lifeblood by Gena Showalter

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Series: Everlife, book 2 Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Young Adult Dystopian Shera’s thoughts: I love the the time glass themes of this series, I really can't wait to see what they'll do next! The first one was like a dual world thing, and I love how the two worlds are now breaking out of the glass and the sand is seeping.

Rise of Fire by Sophie Jordan

Previous book(s) in series:

Goodreads | Amazon

Series: Reign of Shadows, book 2 Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Young Adult Fantasy (AKA Fairytale Retelling) Shera’s thoughts: Oh, I loved the first cover for this series! I don't' think this one is as rich and in your face. However, I love the typography again and that the cool tone of the cover. Especially since the title has the word "fire" in it. I love that the first book is in full bloom and lush, and this cover is wilting and withering. Can't wait to see what book 3's cover is going to look like!

Review: Nailed to the Wall

Nailed to the Wall (Powertools, book 5) by Jayne Rylon

Genre: Ménage Erotica
Edition Reviewed: Ebook
Amazon: Paperback | Kindle
Goodreads: Nailed to the Wall (5)

The crew is back and they’re dirtier than ever.

Five sexy men with a penchant for love and lust in any variation have formed a crew. They work hard and play harder—together. Though their partnership began in construction, renovating houses and selling them for a mint, they’ve formed a bond around their shared goal to provide women, and each other, with the ultimate sexual experience.

Over the past year, as each member discovered his soul mate—or two—they expanded the reach of their circle, lighting up their nights along with their souls. Monogamous relationships and the desire to start families threaten to put their libertine revelry on the back burner. Will the passion that bonded them fade away? How will the new crew wives cope with the complex relationship the men will always cherish and crave?

Determined to prove they stand by their men, the women decide it’s time to flex some muscle and give the crew a dose of girl power. They collude to take the guys as their horny hostages, using some big guns: boudoir photos, a pillow fight and a calculated foray into partner swapping. But will they have the guts to go through with their plans?

Warning: By Book Five in this series, fans will attest that anything goes in the crew. Be prepared for ménage in every flavor—m/f, f/f, mfm, fmf, and more—along with a slew of that's what he said jokes. No throwing tomatoes at the author, please!

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Review:

Gosh that title. Fitting. Though considering all the places things happen, I don't think any walls were nailed upon. ^_-

I really enjoyed seeing all of the characters interact. I like that Rylon skills have developed the cast of characters, so well that they're really balanced here. I enjoyed the girls time together and loved them as friends. Not to mention how love is different between the couples and their friendships.

But that's not what you want to hear about.

Oh, things go down. Every kinky sexual thing you wanted these crazy menagers to do happens. Some you didn't think of and stuff you were praying for.

I will be honest though. It covers a lot of bedroom scenes. I broke it up into individual reads. Because while there was some none sex scenes, they were few and far between. I'm not a person who can just have sex scene after sex scene. Not to mention that certain things did become over the top and cliché.

Just like previous books there were moments where the sex scenes are off balanced. For instant wasn't she already on her back? When he flipped her, she's still on her back?

It was a great addition to the series. I like that the book helps to expand what these characters real lives are going through outside of the bedroom. How they deal with who they are, what they want. That they talk things through. Not to mention that every fantasy these characters have is basically done.

Sexual Content: Okay, people just assume it's all kinds of kinky cray-cray stuff.

  
3/5- Adored it, just a few minor details held it back. 

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Previous book(s) in series:
Reviewed on BW:	Amazon:	Goodreads:
Kate's Crew (1) Morgan's Surprise (2) Kayla's Gift (3) Devon's Pair (4) Mailed to the Wall (5) Hammer it Home (6)	Kate's Crew (1) Morgan's Surprise (2) Kayla's Gift (3) Devon's Pair (4) Nailed to the Wall (5) Hammer it Home (6)	Kate's Crew (1) Morgan's Surprise (2) Kayla's Gift (3) Devon's Pair (4) Nailed to the Wall (5) Hammer it Home (6)

Wednesday Wishes

My latest drama addictions are Doctors and Let's Fight, Ghost! I can't stop binging guys!

Now for the book that caught my eye!

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Thunder Road by Sierra Dean

Get it: Amazon | Goodreads
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Series: Rain Chaser, book 1

Being Chosen was supposed to be a gift.

That’s what Tallulah Corentine’s parents told her when they handed her over to the Rain Chasers on her seventh birthday. It was an honor to be born with a destiny, to be hand selected by the gods before taking her first breath. She should be overjoyed.

Twenty years later, Tallulah is still waiting for the gift. She might have the power of the storm at her fingertips, but she’s spent her whole adult life living under a cloud.

A cross-country trip to find the wayward son of Seth, god of the storm, turns into a fight for her life when she dupes Death out of a valuable treasure. With only a wily con man, a dangerously handsome bad-luck priest, and a lot of lightning to help her, can she deliver the package and keep herself out of an early grave?
Or will Seth be looking for a new Rain Chaser before it’s all over?

I've been eyeing this author's Secret McQueen series for a while, but I haven't bought them yet. This series sounds really fun!

Oh, and I really-really-really like the cover. Plus, someone told me it's another bad ass lead!

Review: Devon's Pair

Devon's Pair (Powertools, book 4) by Jayne Rylon

Genre: Ménage Erotica
Edition Reviewed: Ebook
Amazon: Paperback | Kindle
Goodreads: Devon's Pair

Will his boyfriend’s girlfriend become his girlfriend too?

Powertools, Book 4

James has watched each of the crew fall in love, one by one, until only he and his life partner Neil remain “unattached”. So, when he sees the way his bisexual boyfriend is checking out their new apprentice, he’s sure he’s doomed to lose the man of his dreams.

His love is strong enough that he would let go to ensure Neil’s happiness. Instead, sparks fly between the three of them—along with the rest of the crew—and he realizes he might not have to surrender because his boyfriend’s girlfriend is becoming his girlfriend too.
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Product Warnings
The world’s first m/f/m/f/m/f/m/m/f…we think. You never know exactly what’s going to happen next when the crew gets back together, but it’s guaranteed to be steamy.

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Review:

Man I loved-loved-loved Devon!

It was also great because I've had mixed feelings about Neil. Never disliked him, but I wasn't fond of him.  James, though, has always been awesome and I love him. Devon's Pair finally made me fall in love with Neil.

It was crazy because this threesome was sweet, intense, heartbreaking at times, and perfect. One of my new favorite threesomes. Because I love that James is gay, but he does try out women. However, with Devon involved he loves Neil enough to make room for her. Because he knows Neil loves her. Yeah, James is awesome. So it makes it sweeter when James falls in love too.

That's the hard part with threesomes as a relationship. Up until now it's all been woman and man romances. Rylon is now taking the next step. So far only a few Banks books and Oaks' have been able to bring me this type of romance. However, I haven't read one where the guy was into the other guy. So I liked my first experience. Though Powertools has never been shy about guy on guy loving.

What I like even more is the setup for the different types of love and sexual attraction the characters share for each other. Devon and Kay have chemistry. Wink-wink! Heck the whole cast has chemistry. So we kind of know what the next book will have, or we hope. Another excellent addition to one of my favorite over the top sexy time books.

Sexual Content: Well the warning is in the synopsis. It's dirty my fellow bookworms. Dirty.

 
4/5- Great! Really enjoyed it.

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Previous book(s) in series:
Reviewed on BW:	Amazon:	Goodreads:
Kate's Crew (1) Morgan's Surprise (2) Kayla's Gift (3) Devon's Pair (4) Mailed to the Wall (5) Hammer it Home (6)	Kate's Crew (1) Morgan's Surprise (2) Kayla's Gift (3) Devon's Pair (4) Nailed to the Wall (5) Hammer it Home (6)	Kate's Crew (1) Morgan's Surprise (2) Kayla's Gift (3) Devon's Pair (4) Nailed to the Wall (5) Hammer it Home (6)

Cover Coveting (8)

 
Cover art is found from Goodreads, Wicked Scribes, ATUF, social networks, and other sources.
***All cover art may not be final.***

That's right guys! These lovely covers have pulled me out of my K-drama (seemingly never ending) binge viewing. (For those in the know with dramaland I've now started the addiction that is Another Miss Oh!)

The next Mercy Thompson cover is here. Let us go forth and worship.

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Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb

Previous book(s) in series:

Goodreads | Amazon

Series: The Fitz and the Fool trilogy, book 3 Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: High Fantasy Shera’s thoughts: I really love the covers for this series, it's classic High Fantasy with a face lift. The dragon looks so cool.

Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller

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Series: N/A  Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Young Adult Shera’s thoughts: I know the cover art isn't final, but I thought I'd share it. I really like the simplicity of the vector art! Looks so cool.

Eleventh Grave in the Moonlight by Darynda Jones

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Series: Charley Davidson, book 11  Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Urban Fantasy Shera’s thoughts: So we're back to shoes and there's the skull as a cool boot accessory! It fits the series nicely.

Legion by Julie Kagawa

Previous book(s) in series:

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Series: The Talon Saga, book 4  Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Paranormal Young Adult Shera’s thoughts: Ahhhhhhhh! The dragon in the O! Every time I see the new design in the O I get chills. The designer or team do an amazing job with these covers. I love, LOVE, these covers. Ooooo, I'm so happy to see a green one finally.

Pyromantic by Lish McBride

Previous book(s) in series:

Goodreads | Amazon

Series: Firebug, book 2 Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Paranormal Young Adult Shera’s thoughts: Wow, I love the artwork for this cover. Their hair is the flames and the flames are their hair! So cool. Again they're saying the cover art is  not final, but I hope it is! Oh, and I love how the book title is worked in.

Shattered Stars by Theresa Kay

Previous book(s) in series:

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Series: Broken Stars, book 3 Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction Shera’s thoughts: I don't particularly care for these covers, but I appreciate the consistency of quality and that they all feel like they're from the same series.

Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs

Previous book(s) in series:

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Series: Mercy Thompson, book 11 Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Urban Fantasy Shera’s thoughts: OH MY BOOKWORMS!! This is hands down my favorite cover yet for the series. Holly cow! The movement of her feather earings, hair, and the glass. The contrast of colors and light! Stunning. The cover artist has truly outdown himself. I also really liek that the tattoo is so simple. Sometimes I feel like the tattoos are just too gaudy. Oh, and I love Mercy's hairstyle.

The Crystal Ribbon by Celeste Lim

Previous book(s) in series:

Goodreads | Amazon

Series: N/A  Add it: Goodreads | Amazon Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Shera’s thoughts: Wow. Just wow. I love the art work. Everything about this cover is pure perfection. The style of the drawing, the colors, the blend of the girl and the eyes, the flowers. The typography! Ah! I'm in cover lust.