Wild Things: YA Grown-Up discussion

Share your favorite YA bookcovers here! I wanna see!

Here's one of mine:

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I love all the House of Night covers!

Here's one of my faves:



I love the eye on the dagger... so awesome! :) I also liked the picture on the back of the cover, but I don't have a picture of it.

LOVE the mood in this cover:


And when it opens out, it's like a whole panorama landscape.

I like a few:



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Here are some that I love the covers, but have not read them yet:

Like Allison, I think the Libba Bray covers are gorgeous. I also like



It's so simple and pretty.

I love the Libba Bray covers.

I also really like the UK cover of Fire.


I think it's fierce.

Ooohh Yeah April, I like that one too!

I like:

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oh, and haven't read it but
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is very pretty :)

Oh I love that Wildthorn cover! So pretty! I just put it on my TBR and really have no idea what it's about! ;-)

Yeah, what's with the zero details on its page? I added the summary. It made me want to read it more.

i really like the uglies, pretties, specials, extras covers, by scott westerfeld. individually, they're really nothing that special, but when you put them all together and see the theme, it's pretty neat. also, each picture is altered to look like the type of person the main character is in that specific book . . . i really didn't describe that very well . . .

Yeah, I love those covers. Especially Extras, because of the mods in her eyes.

have you read bogus to bubbly? there are some reject covers for the books in there. Once you read the books, it's hard to imagine them with different covers.

My friend had a copy of that at her house and I flipped through, but I haven't read it. I can't (nor do I want to) picture the books differently. They are kind of iconic.

Some of my favorites are...

The Michael Whelan covers for ERB's Mars/Barsoom Series (not techinaclly YA, but could read by someone 13+). They're all great, but the first is probably my favorite.


Also, one by a favorite GR author (again not technically marketed as YA, but ones of those "for all ages" kind of books). This is the first, but I like the others as well. These were actually designed by the author himself.


Dragon Sword and Wind child


This book is known as "The Naming" in the US, and "The Gift" outside the US. I personally prefer the UK cover the best. The sequels are just as pretty.


Isle of Swords and Isle of Fire by GR author Wayne Thomas Batson


Here There Be Dragons. My Husband tells me that this is really good; I think he was saying that it has alot of historical and literary references, and it's pretty funny.


The Dangerous Days of Daniel X, YA Science Fiction by James Patterson.



I also really like the Twilight covers. It's the main reason I decided to read them.

I just found:

It's not out yet, so there's no reviews, but I've added it to my TBR anyway, just for the cover!

I did the same thing when I saw it a few weeks ago. I tried to find a product description to add to the page and couldn't.

Thanks for sharing that cover, I just added it also!

Here's a review of the Thirteenth Princess I found on someone's book blog:

"Zita’s not just any servant girl: She's a princess—the thirteenth daughter of a king who wanted only sons and banished her to the servants' quarters to work in the castle's kitchen. Then, after Zita's twelfth birthday, her royal sisters all fall mysteriously ill. The only clue is their strangely worn and tattered shoes. With the help of her friends—Breckin the stable boy, Babette the witch, and Milek the soldier—Zita follows her bewitched sisters into a magical world of endless dancing and dreams. Something sinister is afoot—and Zita must find the source of the enchantment and break the curse or the twelve princesses will surely dance to their deaths.
With a mesmerizing voice and delightful imagination, Diane Zahler delivers a dazzling retelling of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses." Zita is the spunky and unforgettable heroine that young girls will love."
(link is http://rebeccasbookblog.blogspot.com/...)

I ALWAYS judge books by their covers, and I think YA books for girls have some of the prettiest ones. I have several books on my TBR list on the basis of their covers alone. I especially like covers that feature corsets, long hair, historical costumes, and girls' faces. I love all the Libba Bray covers (although I didn't particularly like the books themselves) and these:
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I LOOOOVE that cover for Sovay. Celia Rees seems to have good covers; I liked too.

Sarah wrote: "Here's a review of the Thirteenth Princess I found on someone's book blog:
"Zita’s not just any servant girl: She's a princess—the thirteenth daughter of a king who wanted only sons and banished h..."

Ah, yet another retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses then. I suspected as much...

I just got my copy of 13 Little Blue Envelopes and I must say that, though the cover is definitely in the 'trendy' camp

rather than the romantic Libba Bray tradition, I'm floored by the ravishing pastel blues and pinks. The cover model's gloss just jumps off the cover, even the spine looks so pretty sitting on my case.

Sarah, I love your collection of covers!

I added this one to my books, just because I like the cover:



I actually don't like covers with people on them most of the time. I'm not really sure why though. I guess I just like more "moody" covers, and ones with people on them don't give me that vibe.

I will always pick up a book with a great cover. A couple I added to my TBR list based on coverart.




@ Linda Grace. Eyes Like Stars was a great book, I couldn't put it down.

I can't decide if I like that ^ cover of Ash or this one:
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I like these too:
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They're beautiful.

I love the covers, but don't like the books. Well, The Luxe, anyway. I won't read the rest; 1 was bad enough.

@ Misty: I hadn't seen that cover, it is beautiful. It almost seems like they would be for two different books.

Tiffany wrote: "@ Misty: I hadn't seen that cover, it is beautiful. It almost seems like they would be for two different books. "

Yeah, it really does. I had only seen the black cover until the book came for me at the library (black), and I went to mark it as currently reading, and the blue one popped up.

Here's my favorite! I fell in love with this cover which is why I read the book (which is outstanding) and the cover of the second book (coming out in sept) is even prettier.

I love this for its cover too (I won it! yay!) but I haven't read it yet; I'm a little leery.

Oooh Misty, well when you finish it please let us all know what you thought! I am thinking of reading it too, but am also leery - now you can be my guinea pig! lol.

Lots of my favorites are already pictured, but here are a couple of newer covers that I think are beautiful:



I also love the covers of Ellen Hopkins' books. They are simple, yet I find them striking. They capture the mood of the books quite well.

Some of my other favorites:

I really loved this cover for and kept going back to consider buying it even though the reviews didn't pull me... So I eventually broke down and got it from Amazon (haven't read it yet) and was thoroughly disappointed that they sent me instead. :-(

I am also waiting for just because I love the cover.

Leary about reading Fallen you mean??

Here's another I really like.

I admit I like --it looks like a Sephora ad or something.

But I do share your grief: it sucks not to get the edition you wanted!

So it's not YA, but I'm cataloguing this book at the moment, and keep staring in wonder at the cover, because it's so PRETTY (and I had to share it)!

Amy wrote: "Leary about reading Fallen you mean??

Here's another I really like."

Love the cover of Hush, Hush!

I also love the covers of these books:
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There's so many more too!

Another that I like...

I liked Sight

It's not a pretty cover, but definitely caught my eye. Haha, get it?? :-/

I like the ones that are different and make you wonder what's going on, like and and it's other edition with the boy on the hilltop.

Amy wrote: "Leary about reading Fallen you mean??

Here's another I really like."

Ooops - sorry for the bad spelling!! It just sounds a little strange. . . but I have it on hold at the library so I guess I have overcome my initial "leariness" - again pardon the spelling, I think I just coined a word!! LOL.

Did you like Fallen??

I love the cover of Rick Yancey's The Monstrumologist:
Fascinating!

I loved Fallen. Hush Hush took me longer to like but I did like it as well.

Kellee, that is so cool. I don't like series books, or monsters, but this cover just begs me to pick it up!

Cheryl wrote: "Kellee, that is so cool. I don't like series books, or monsters, but this cover just begs me to pick it up!"

Isn't it fabulous?!?!? It is so creepy and eye catching!

I thought the books was worth reading. To squash your fears: 1) You can read it as a stand alone if you want- it does not have a cliff hanger or anything that makes it so you HAVE to read the next book and 2) it is a monster book that stands on its own; however, it is a horror book with monsters, so you'll have to decide if you want to tackle it.

My review:
Will Henry was 11 years old when he lost his parents to a fire. With no family left, his father's employer, Dr. Wanthrop, took him in. Will Henry becomes Dr. Wanthrop's assistant in his interesting studies of Monstrumology. A monstrumologist is a scientist who studies and hunts life forms not recognized by science. One evening, a grave robber arrives with something that he believes only Dr. Wanthrop can deal with... and the adventure begins!!

This book follows as Will Henry and the doctor fight the monsters that have shown up in their home town.

Although gruesome, scary and horrifying at some points, it is never without warrant. This is the first book of a series and I cannot wait to read the sequels so I can follow Will Henry and the doctor on more adventures!!

Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. If I didn't have such a huge TBR mountain (cartons of books as well as overflowing shelves :) I'd be looking for it!