Back in January, I featured on the Artsy Shelf covers with closeups, two of which inspired me today’s feature. It seems that blue eyes contrasted with a pale skin might be the perfect way to capture the readers’ attention. There’s a definite resemblance between Russel Smith’s Girl Crazy and Lauren Grodstein’s A Friend of the Family, which is why in my mind I often confuse those two covers. I think A Friend of the...

You all know how I love  pretty dresses on cover! And I have mentioned at least once before with the Artsy Shelf feature how much I love red dresses. Well it seems it’s a passion shared by the YA world, as many of the recent covers feature stunning dresses in dramatic settings and colors. I have always felt the color evokes passion and intensity, and these covers do a great job of showcasing red as a strong, intense, dramatic color....

The sunny days we had here this week inspired me. I can’t wait for summer to be officially here! So I went and dug around my folders to find some summer inspired covers that made me feel like summer was here already. Here they are! 🙂 What I love about these covers : the light, the warm tones, the variety of greens, the casualness of the characters, how relax most of them feel. They make me want to take long walks with friends and with...

Walking by the sea or swimming through the waves, these covers present female characters in gorgeous sea settings. I love all of these, in a way that, I think, isn’t rational. The colors are beautiful, the photography is great for most of them, too. I love the detail of The Eternal Sea’s cover. It’s mysterious, we see just enough of the character and I love the skull cloud. The colors of Between the Sea and the Sky and Lost...

Back in July 2010 I featured some interesting covers presenting women with their hair tied in a bun, viewed from the back. This time around, I have a slightly similar theme, except that these do not all have their hair in a bun, but are viewed from the back too ; Am I the only one who feels like featuring a woman from the back is just another way to put a character on a cover without showing too much of her face, like those numerous covers with...

One of the trends I’ve noticed in the last year, is a variety of closeup on covers, mostly in YA fiction but also in adult fiction. I found enough to do this feature maybe four times, but in the end I picked some of my favorites : It’s really difficult for me to pick a favorite because in the end, they all feel very similar. Also, I used not to like this kind of cover because it doesn’t let me imagine the characters. Now...

This week, I am simply sharing with you some of the covers I like that feature flowers. Aren’t they beautiful? I love them all! But my favorite is, without a doubt, This is Where we Live. If you happen to see a larger reproduction of it on the internet, or on the shelf, you’ll see even more closely how the photography is amazingly powerful. The colors, the movement, the broken glass… I love it! Once was Lost has a beautiful...

You might remember how, a while ago, I featured red dresses covers on the Artsy Shelf. I revealed then that I love red dresses, but the truth is I can easily fall for other beautiful dresses, no matter the color. I really wanted to feature a collection of beautiful covers with blue dresses, but surprisingly I could hardly find blue dresses that weren’t on historical fiction novels or in an historical style. I decided to go with it, which...