Shelf candy saturday is an awesome weekly meme hosted by Stephanie over at Five Alarm Book Reviews http://www.fivealarmbooksreviews.com. This is a meme where we celebrate covers that we find beautiful and interesting. For more information visit Stephanie’s blog.
This week I am going to post a book cover that really caught and held my attention the minute I saw it…. and forgive me if it’s been featured on shelf candy before. I tried to remember where I saw this book first and I couldn’t remember, all I remembered was the image. I guess you could say that it haunts me.
My pick for today:
After seventeen-year-old Felicita’s dearest friend Ilven kills herself to escape an arranged marriage, Felicita chooses freedom over privilege. She fakes her own death and leaves her sheltered life as one of Pelimburg’s magical elite behind. Living in the slums, scrubbing dishes for a living, she falls for charismatic Dash while also becoming fascinated with vampire Jannik. Then something shocking washes up on the beach: Ilven’s death has called out of the sea a dangerous wild magic. Felicita must decide whether her loyalties lie with the family she abandoned . . . or with those who would twist this dark power to destroy Pelimburg’s caste system, and the whole city along with it.
This cover is so eery. But I can’t look away from it, it really draws my eye everytime I see it. Which, to be frank disturbs me because at first glance it appears that the girl has just washed up onshore and is dead… and given the coloring and fogginess you know that foul play was involved in her death.
But then when you look further you see that she appears to be lying in the water looking at the sky… is she dead? Is she not dead? And if she isn’t dead WHY OH WHY would she be laying in the creepy water all by herself at night?! *shudders*
And really this cover is very simple but still packs a punch.
What do you think?
Annnddd. The synopsis…. intriguing, yes? I think this book could go either way, good ro bad… but I am intrigued enough that I want to read it and give it a try. Have any of you read this yet?
So that’s my pick this week for Shelf Candy! Happy Saturday!
The cover is so eerie, very different to a lot the covers for vampire/paranormal books at the moment. I’m a little tired of seeing a kick-ass female decked out in leather pants with a flat stomach and boob tube 🙂 Nice to see an actual spooky cover for a supernatural book.
I totally agree. The tough as nails female is good but it is getting over done, this is very unique!
This cover is so creepy, just by suggestion. I love it.That girl looks dead. Who lays in muck like that unless someone has thrown her there. She is quite posed though. Thank you for posting it.
Ooooh you’re right! It totally captures the eeriness of the story. Great pick!
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Happy Saturday! Yes, I agree. It is a very eerie cover, which is what I like most about it! I’ve seen reviews and comments on this cover and I think we are all thinking the same thing: can’t wait to get my hands on this book!
Thanks for sharing. I love the greys and the milky water… I’m scaring myself just by thinking about it!
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Hi, Cambria! Oh, my gosh! What an eerie, creepy cover! It is indeed very eye-catching, though. Steph from FABR thinks the girl is dead, but I don’t. I think she’s in some sort of trance, or dream-like state. The first thing that comes to my mind is Ophelia from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”. She, too, lay floating in water, in some kind of daze. Of course, she had already gone crazy, and ended up drowning. There’s a famous painting by John Everett Millais (a member of the 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite movement) that shows Ophelia floating in the river, singing. Totally eerie…
Here’s the Wikipedia link for Millais:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Everett_Millais
Here’s the link for the painting of Ophelia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Millais_-_Ophelia.jpg
Although this cover obviously doesn’t match the book’s title, I still like it. It’s a very striking one, indeed! Thanks for featuring it! Now on to Goodreads to check it out! : )
Maria @ http://anightsdreamofbooks.blogspot.com/