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Hello readers and welcome to the last recap post of 2021, showing the most beautiful, captivating, charming covers (for me) of 2021.
You can find the best books of 2021 here and the worst here.
These are all my favorite covers of 2021!
Did you spot one cover that catch your eyes?
Tell me in the comments!
Hello readers!
The last of my wrap up posts about my readings of 2020 is dedicated to all the beautiful covers of the past year!
You can find all the best books of 2020 here.
Here there are all the worst books of 2020, and here all the DNF.
Those shoes on the cover of Spelled are amazing!!
What’s your favorite cover of the past year?
Tell me in the comments!
Hello readers! How are you?
I’m here to show you my personal favourite covers of books that I read in 2019! They are not books published in 2019, as I read mostly backlisted books.
What you prefer to see on a cover? A beautiful dress, a shirtless guy, the ever-present snake? XD
As you can see from my selection, I’m a fan of Steampunk covers. Lady Mechanica is the perfect example.
I also have an obsession for typography/calligraphy, so my eyes are captured by how the title is written, like Limelight.
But the creepy cover of Constable & Toop is a little jewel, the perspective is amazing, it seems to have tridimensionality, right?
These were my ten favourite covers of 2019!
Do you agree with me?
Tell me in the comments what’s your best cover of the last year!
I saw this funny challenge on MelToTheAny blog, and I immediately decided to do it, even if I am not tagged!
The rules: Find a book that contains (either on the cover or in the title) an example for each category. You must have a separate book for all 20, get as creative as you want and do it within five minutes!
Wow, that’s a lot of books!! The Wonder has a wonderful cover, along with Hand and Talon. I can’t wait to read it!
Inkdeath has the italian title, because “Alba” means dawn!
Bring Me Their Hearts
Author: Sara Wolf
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: June 5th 2018
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Pages: 400
Rating: 5/5
Zera is a Heartless—the immortal, unaging soldier of a witch. Bound to the witch Nightsinger ever since she saved her from the bandits who murdered her family, Zera longs for freedom from the woods they hide in. With her heart in a jar under Nightsinger’s control, she serves the witch unquestioningly.
Until Nightsinger asks Zera for a prince’s heart in exchange for her own, with one addendum: if she’s discovered infiltrating the court, Nightsinger will destroy Zera’s heart rather than see her tortured by the witch-hating nobles.
Crown Prince Lucien d’Malvane hates the royal court as much as it loves him—every tutor too afraid to correct him and every girl jockeying for a place at his darkly handsome side. No one can challenge him—until the arrival of Lady Zera. She’s inelegant, smart-mouthed, carefree, and out for his blood. The prince’s honor has him quickly aiming for her throat.
So begins a game of cat and mouse between a girl with nothing to lose and a boy who has it all.
Winner takes the loser’s heart.
Literally.
“There are two things men will always believe about a woman: that she’s stupid, and that she’s weak. Today, as every day, I am neither of these things.”
This book is amazing, goes directly to my best reading of 2018 and one of the best fantasy/YA I ever read!
We have Zera, an Heartless who wants to take back her heart from the witch who keeps her heart in a jar and use her as a soldier. She can’t died, but she can’t step away from her heart neither. We have a Prince and we have a world full of perils, a world well described with the locations, the story of the past and its religion. A world with “medieval” inspiration but with some touch of magic, horror and fantasy.
Apart the cover, that I love so much because the dress seems like moving, my favourite part of the book is Zera. She’s a great main character: her life was and is currently tormented by her past, her life without a heart is miserable and she’s agonizing for a human touch.
But no one will ever touch her, or walk with her, if they know she’s a Heartless. A monster.
But Zera is also a very sarcastic and intelligent girl. I loved every single dialogue in this book. The best dialogues are, obviously, between her and the Prince. I laughed so hard with the dialogues, and sometimes I was crying because the author has done a great job to make the reader feel what Zera feel.
She’s tormented: she has to do what she wants (take her heart back), or she has to do what is right by take the prince heart and probably prevent a war between witches and humans?
It’s right to let another human suffer what she suffers?
And a special mention to all the other characters: I’m totally in love with Malachite, the bodyguard of the Prince, strong, intelligent and sarcastic, but you have to believe me that every character in this book is interesting and well descripted.
It’s really a page turner, with no dead times, and I always appreciated that, because I get bored very easily.
I’m a little doubtful about the ending: I was expecting a more dramatic or a happier ending, and I was in a little shock for the cliffhanger.
And now, something that I never do: please, I need the second book right now!
Thanks to Ya Bound Book Tours for this opportunity. I received a free copy in exchange of an honest review.
About the Author
Sara Wolf is a twenty-something author who adores baking, screaming at her cats, and screaming at herself while she types hilarious things. When she was a kid, she was too busy eating dirt to write her first terrible book. Twenty years later, she picked up a keyboard and started mashing her fists on it and created the monster known as Lovely Vicious. She lives in San Diego with two cats, a crippling-yet-refreshing sense of self-doubt, and not enough fruit tarts ever.
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Hello! Another month as come and go, how was your reading month?
Except for A head Full of Ghost, the other books are all novellas/short books. That’s because in May I read (in italian) two books with more than 500 pages: Gone girl and Jessica’s guide to dates the dark side.
What lies below by Andrenik Sergoyan: a horror short story with a macabre cover. I appreciate it. 3 stars for me.
Mother’s Misfortune by Cordelia Castel: a novella of the Perrault Chronicles. I didn’t read this series, but I appreciate the writing style. And I love the colours of the cover. 3 stars.
Dragonship by J.P. Ashman: a fantasy short story, with interesting characters and a beatiful cover. And Dragons!
A Head full of ghost, by Paul Tremblay: oh my, this book was a delusion! Sorry, the review is only in italian for now, I’m working to translate it! 2 stars for me.
A matter of scale by Jonathon Burgess: a fantasy short book, with a cover that reminds me of Odin Sphere (the videogame) also with dragons. Everyone loves dragons. 2 stars for me.
What was your best book of the month?
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