This week’s Top 5, created by Shanah @ Bionic Bookworm, is top Cover Buys. Books that had such an impressive, eye drawing, or intriguing cover that you decided to buy it before hearing anything about it, or even reading the synopsis.
Sea of Rust
by C. Robert Cargill
The colours on this are what drew me in. It’s just metal pre- and post-rust, but it looks so amazing.
Lock In
by John Scalzi
I like the representation of the red figures. I didn’t know what they represented when I first saw this cover, but I didn’t really care. I just wanted to read it.
Batman: Nightwalker
by Marie Lu
To be fair, this probably had more to do with Batman than it did with cover design, but come on. It’s still a wicked looking cover.
Hell Divers
by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
This one looks like an action movie.
Life L1k3
by Jay Kristoff
This one. Great googly moogly! The font! The background pattern! The distressing of it all. It’s all awesome. There isn’t a single thing on this cover that seems like it went the wrong way.
Sea of Rust is a fantastic cover! I will probably buy that at some point because of the cover, although I hear the story is pretty good too😊
She’s like a drug dealer… but with books……. HAHAHAHA But oh so true!!!! She is terrible for this reading addiction!
Sea of Rust has a gorgeous cover and I completely get the draw to Lock In as well.
Great google moodily…… I swear I almost spit out coffee laughing! But yes I totally agree! I love the font and the geometric design. It’s a really simple cover but once it’s taken in as a whole with the font, pattern, and colours, it’s a real eye catcher!! Agreed with Sea of Rust – I was originally interested in it because of the cover!!
Thanks so much for participating – added you to the list 🙂
I totally got Batman: Nightwalker because it was BATMAN! also, totally agree with Bionic Bookworm being like a book dealer for me too! Lol 😆
The book covers of DC Icons made we want to buy them all in hardcover. They all look so good!
I love that Batman cover too! Everyone talks about the Wonder Woman and the Catwoman covers, but Batman is my favorite.
I love the Hell Divers cover too. There’s a huge part of me that wants to read it. It’s been getting such rave reviews. For some reason, though they’re nothing alike, I can’t hear Hell Diver without thinking of Red Rising.
Ha ha! I forgot all about that! I guess I left Darrow’s old life behind…
I love the Batman cover and all the others in the series. I find them spectacular
I can’t wait to see the Superman cover!
See of Rust really reminds me of an acrylic or oil painting Joe! And this week I didn’t cheat on you LOL Happy Tuesday!
Sea of Rust is gorgeous!
These covers are great!!!
I love all the covers for the DC Icons series. They look so awesome together on bookshelves, too. 🙂
Love this list! Marie Lu’s Batman novel attracted my attention as well. Have you read this one yet!?
I love the Hell Diver covers! They’re all so intense. And you’re right, the rust and metal of the first one makes it really stand out. And the Batman cover is gorgeous! (So is the guy on the cover, if I’m being honest lol.)