Tuesday 22 May 2012

Cover Lust (7)


I haven't done a cover lust post in over a year! A YEAR!!!!
I know this is really bad! Let me make it up to with a bumper cover lust post! To tempt you further, the blurb for each book will be in italics!
I found this over at  a blog called Wasterpaper Prose. This is written by Diana Peterfreund and will be published on the 12th June in hardback. Published by HarperTeen, so not sure if the UK will be publishing or not, although it is available on Amazon.
Generations ago, a genetic experiment gone wrong—the Reduction—decimated humanity, giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.
Elliot North has always known her place in this world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family’s estate over love. Since then the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress, and Elliot’s estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth—an almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliot wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up when she let him go.
But Elliot soon discovers her old friend carries a secret—one that could change their society . . . or bring it to its knees. And again, she’s faced with a choice: cling to what she’s been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she’s ever loved, even if she’s lost him forever.
This will be published by Simon and Schuster in November and is just stunning. 
 I want to sit under that tree! Found this one over at Icey Books. 
About a high-school senior, who, in the aftermath of a car accident that kills her boyfriend and throws her carefully planned future into complete upheaval, retreats to the deep woods of Maine to live with the artist father she barely knows and meets a boy who threatens to pull her from her safe, hard-won exile.
I found this one over at Pen to Paper. From one I can gather it has only be published so far in Australia by Random House Children's Books. Doesn't she look like Cruella De Ville???
Into a world of wild secrets and deadly pleasures comes a girl whose innocence may be her greatest strength.
In Ixion music and party are our only beliefs. Darkness is our comfort. We have few rules but they are absolute . . .
Retra doesn’t want to go to Ixion, the island of ever-night, ever-youth and never-sleep. Retra is a Seal – sealed minds, sealed community. She doesn’t crave parties and pleasure, experience and freedom.
But her brother Joel left for Ixion two years ago, and Retra is determined to find him. Braving the intense pain of her obedience strip to escape the only home she’s ever known, Retra stows away on the barge that will take her to her brother.
When she can’t find Joel, Retra finds herself drawn deeper into the intoxicating world of Ixion. Come to me, whispers a voice in her head. Who are the Ripers, the mysterious guardians of Ixion? What are the Night Creatures Retra can see in the shadows? And what happens to those who grow too old for Ixion?
Retra will find that Ixion has its pleasures, but its secrets are deadly. Will friendship, and the creation of an eternal bond with a Riper, be enough to save her from the darkness?
I can't remember where I found this one. I love the sepia tones and the skyline. It was published in April this year by Arthur A. Levin books and is available from Amazon. 
Matthew has loved Ariel from the moment he found her in the tunnels, her bee’s wings falling away. They live in Safe, an underground refuge for those fleeing the city Above—like Whisper, who speaks to ghosts, and Jack Flash, who can shoot lightning from his fingers.

But one terrifying night, an old enemy invades Safe with an army of shadows, and only Matthew, Ariel, and a few friends escape Above. As Matthew unravels the mystery of Safe’s history and the shadows’ attack, he realizes he must find a way to remake his home—not just for himself, but for Ariel, who needs him more than ever before.
This has to be one of my favourite of the new Strange Chemistry covers. I love it.  It is just the type of book I love to read too. It will be published in October this year.
15-year-old Julie Richardson is about to learn that being the daughter of a witch isn't all it's cracked up to be. When she and her best friend, Marcus, witness an elderly lady jettisoned out the front door of her home, it's pretty obvious to Julie there's a supernatural connection. 
In fact, there's a whisper of menace behind increasing levels of poltergeist activity all over town. After a large-scale paranormal assault on Julie's high school, her mother falls victim to the spell Endless Night. Now it's a race against time to find out who is responsible or Julie won't just lose her mother's soul, she'll lose her mother's life.

Which ones do you want to drool over??


11 comments:

  1. The cover for Burning Bright is just awesome, it has much going on but not too much. It's the kind of cover one has to study to see if there are secrets there that one doesn't see at first glance.

    I like all the covers you have shared with us today, Vivienne.

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  2. I adore the cover of above! It's just soooo pretty!

    Krazyyme @ Young Readers

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  3. Above was on my Debuts I'd Like Published in the UK - isnt it gorgeous
    I am loving the look of Burn Bright *adds to lists* ;D

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  4. I love the title and cover of Poltergeeks!

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  5. Poltergeeks sounds awesome! The cover is so cool. Also love the look/sound of Lovely, dark and deep! Two new books for my TBR, *sigh* thanks Viv :P

    The Cait Files

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