You already know how I feel about faces on covers. Granted, cut-off faces are slightly better. But then they’re taken down a few notches again because they’re about to make out. But then, reusing those same faces?
Since Martin’s novel was published earlier than Williams’ Anna’s Secret Legacy, I hereby declare The Lighter Side of Life and Death the winner!
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I’m not sure if I like the fire-y design behind the faces in Anna’s Secret Legacy.
But this post reminds me of North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley and Evermore by Alyson Noel. They used the same girl on the cover but with modifications to fit the story. I like North of Beautiful more, but maybe I’m biased because I haven’t read Evermore yet.
Design-wise, I definitely agree. But as someone who reads more of contemporary over paranormal (and still hates faces on covers), I think that’d be a natural selection. In the paranormal/fantasy realm, I’ll most likely pick up a novel if the cover does not look like all the others in the same genre. I like good, fresh breaths of design air. 😉
What the heck is happening in that second cover?! For real. Why is there a close up on 2 people about to make out, with fire behind them, and a Nazi symbol??!! Maybe I need to understand the book to understand the cover. But that is just awful.
That totally confused me, too! Nazi symbols always make me go “oh oh, dangerous content” and mixed with the fire it looks like a Nazi fantasy book which would just be… weird.
I just found another cover version of ASL. It doesn’t look much better though 😛
Here’s the link, it wasn’t shown in my last comment:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/9399988-anna-s-secret-legacy
Whoa, so many words on that cover! But then I saw it was the Kindle cover edition. But then I said “Whoa, so many words!” again. Yikes.
You know, you could interpret the flames as “omg this kiss is so hot they are on FIYAH.” But then that moment’s ruined with you know, the whole swastika thing.
That is totally about Anna Hitler isn’t it? (Guessing) Dammit. She’s ruining it for all us German Annas.
If her secret legacy is Nazi’s… well, the mystery’s been killed.
Coins make me wanna kiss, ya’ll.
NAZIS. I refuse to have this comment above be grammatically incorrect!
First one would win anyway. Waaaaay too much clutter going on in the second one. The first book is awesome, so that helps, but I also appreciate the clean and simple cover.