Cover Reveal
Hello,
First up sorry I abandoned you and the world of goodreads for so long, things got really busy! But to make up for it I am coming back with a cover reveal for the follow up novel from Miss Hannah Harvey, whose debut novel ‘How I Got Here’ I reviewed last year.
This new book is ‘After Summer’.
“ Everything changes for Arianna when she loses one of her best friends in an accident, suddenly everything that felt happy and safe, is no longer there, and she can't handle it. It used to be Ben, Summer and Arianna, always together, and now it's just Ben and Arianna left, and she needs to escape.
After Summer's death she pushes Ben away, cutting of her connection with who she used to be, but she can't keep running forever, not when the past is always ready to catch her up, especially since it's more than just Summer's death that she's running from. ”
Her new book from what I have read is similar in one sense; it charts the story of one girl who thinks she is alone in the world when really she didn't need to be. However this new book brings with it all the trapping of a foray into a new depth of writing.
Most of the story is told in third person, though there are a few journal style letters incorporated.
‘After Summer’ is a book about discovering who you are, through many trials of growing up. It delves into loss, love, expectations and a fear of asking for help, even when you know you need it.
While ‘How I Got Here’ did not go wanting for serious topics or situations, and while the writing style and the voice of the author remains fairly unchanged- even from the brief excerpt I read, the characters seemed more developed in ‘After Summer’ and I got a fuller sense of who they were.
However this is not a book review, I cannot tell you to rush out and buy this book because I haven’t even read it myself (for those of you who want to there is an excerpt at the end) but I can give you my opinion on the cover.
And here it is…
This cover ticks three important boxes. The title is clear and stands out as important. The author’s name is visible. The main character is the focus of the cover…all massive ticks in boxes.
In particularly I like how the image blurs from focus as if everything is falling away, the body language from the cover model suggests that Arianna is broken, the lack of eye contact and the ambiguity over the face and identity suggests that she is confused herself over who she is and even the colour palette of the autumnal colours suggests a mourning, as autumn is the season where all the cycle begins to end, nature’s death.
In all it’s simple, it’s clean and it’s subtle. It tells you little but hints at much. A very intriguing cover.
About the Author:
Hannah has had a keen interest in writing for a long time, starting out writing short stories when she was young. As she got older she started taking her writing more serio usly, and writing longer pieces, but it wasn’t until taking part in and completing NaNoWriMo, that she decided to pursue her writing.
Her first novel ‘How I Got Here’ was released in the summer of 2012.
Excerpt:
‘Don’t lecture me Ben I can’t deal with that tonight.’
‘I expected more from you.’ He sighs.
‘That’s the whole issue though,’ Arianna shouts, ‘so many people expected so much from me, by the time I was about thirteen my whole life had been mapped out, and I felt like if I changed even one thing, I’d be letting everyone down! I was drowning in expectations. After Summer died I just couldn’t do it anymore, but that Arianna, the one I used to be, she was so tied down by all of that, so I had to become someone new.’
‘And cut everyone out of your life? I know it’s not just me, you hardly talk to Alex anymore, you’re withdrawn around your parents, you don’t talk to my parents anymore, all of your friends were dropped, you don’t talk to Kate, and she says that Fletcher has been trying to contact you but you won’t talk to him either. I don’t understand it, you had a great life and sure I know things weren’t perfect, but you had a support system of friends and family, and you pushed them all away. What’s so horrible about the life you had planned?’
‘Nothing’s horrible about it,’
‘Then just explain to me what you’re doing? Why you’re acting like this prom queen type of girl.’
‘Maybe because I am the prom queen,’ she shrugs noncommittally, ‘I like who I am now, I have a big group of friends, I have money, I don’t have to worry about being labelled a nerd, I actually have a varied social life that consists of more than staying at home, or going to the arcade. I don’t have to care,’
‘About anything,’ he finishes for her, ‘that’s the biggest problem, you used to care about things and people, but now you don’t, or you pretend you don’t.’
‘I didn’t come here to talk about myself, so if this is the way the nights going then I’ll leave now.’ She snaps back angrily.
*Cover Image from: www.freedigitalphotos.net
Links:
Authors Website:
www.thebooktower.webs.com
Amazon Authors Page:
www.amazon.com/author/hannahharvey
Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/bookish92
First up sorry I abandoned you and the world of goodreads for so long, things got really busy! But to make up for it I am coming back with a cover reveal for the follow up novel from Miss Hannah Harvey, whose debut novel ‘How I Got Here’ I reviewed last year.
This new book is ‘After Summer’.
“ Everything changes for Arianna when she loses one of her best friends in an accident, suddenly everything that felt happy and safe, is no longer there, and she can't handle it. It used to be Ben, Summer and Arianna, always together, and now it's just Ben and Arianna left, and she needs to escape.
After Summer's death she pushes Ben away, cutting of her connection with who she used to be, but she can't keep running forever, not when the past is always ready to catch her up, especially since it's more than just Summer's death that she's running from. ”
Her new book from what I have read is similar in one sense; it charts the story of one girl who thinks she is alone in the world when really she didn't need to be. However this new book brings with it all the trapping of a foray into a new depth of writing.
Most of the story is told in third person, though there are a few journal style letters incorporated.
‘After Summer’ is a book about discovering who you are, through many trials of growing up. It delves into loss, love, expectations and a fear of asking for help, even when you know you need it.
While ‘How I Got Here’ did not go wanting for serious topics or situations, and while the writing style and the voice of the author remains fairly unchanged- even from the brief excerpt I read, the characters seemed more developed in ‘After Summer’ and I got a fuller sense of who they were.
However this is not a book review, I cannot tell you to rush out and buy this book because I haven’t even read it myself (for those of you who want to there is an excerpt at the end) but I can give you my opinion on the cover.
And here it is…
This cover ticks three important boxes. The title is clear and stands out as important. The author’s name is visible. The main character is the focus of the cover…all massive ticks in boxes.
In particularly I like how the image blurs from focus as if everything is falling away, the body language from the cover model suggests that Arianna is broken, the lack of eye contact and the ambiguity over the face and identity suggests that she is confused herself over who she is and even the colour palette of the autumnal colours suggests a mourning, as autumn is the season where all the cycle begins to end, nature’s death.
In all it’s simple, it’s clean and it’s subtle. It tells you little but hints at much. A very intriguing cover.
About the Author:
Hannah has had a keen interest in writing for a long time, starting out writing short stories when she was young. As she got older she started taking her writing more serio usly, and writing longer pieces, but it wasn’t until taking part in and completing NaNoWriMo, that she decided to pursue her writing.
Her first novel ‘How I Got Here’ was released in the summer of 2012.
Excerpt:
‘Don’t lecture me Ben I can’t deal with that tonight.’
‘I expected more from you.’ He sighs.
‘That’s the whole issue though,’ Arianna shouts, ‘so many people expected so much from me, by the time I was about thirteen my whole life had been mapped out, and I felt like if I changed even one thing, I’d be letting everyone down! I was drowning in expectations. After Summer died I just couldn’t do it anymore, but that Arianna, the one I used to be, she was so tied down by all of that, so I had to become someone new.’
‘And cut everyone out of your life? I know it’s not just me, you hardly talk to Alex anymore, you’re withdrawn around your parents, you don’t talk to my parents anymore, all of your friends were dropped, you don’t talk to Kate, and she says that Fletcher has been trying to contact you but you won’t talk to him either. I don’t understand it, you had a great life and sure I know things weren’t perfect, but you had a support system of friends and family, and you pushed them all away. What’s so horrible about the life you had planned?’
‘Nothing’s horrible about it,’
‘Then just explain to me what you’re doing? Why you’re acting like this prom queen type of girl.’
‘Maybe because I am the prom queen,’ she shrugs noncommittally, ‘I like who I am now, I have a big group of friends, I have money, I don’t have to worry about being labelled a nerd, I actually have a varied social life that consists of more than staying at home, or going to the arcade. I don’t have to care,’
‘About anything,’ he finishes for her, ‘that’s the biggest problem, you used to care about things and people, but now you don’t, or you pretend you don’t.’
‘I didn’t come here to talk about myself, so if this is the way the nights going then I’ll leave now.’ She snaps back angrily.
*Cover Image from: www.freedigitalphotos.net
Links:
Authors Website:
www.thebooktower.webs.com
Amazon Authors Page:
www.amazon.com/author/hannahharvey
Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/bookish92
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