Top 10 of 2019: Cover Love (Favorite Covers)

Top 10 of 2019 is hosted once again by Kimberly Faye Reads, and this year she has a co-host Ginger @greadsbooks.   So today's topic is a fun one, but a hard one!  There may be a couple of the numbers on this list that include more than one book, maybe a series, since that is the best way I could do this.

1.

The librarian and book lover in me adored the covers for the Green Valley Library series from the SmartyPants Romance books this fall.  They had the library card background for each of the different faces with different beards/mustaches/hairstyles.  And at least one of the books even had each chapter based on a Dewey Decimal number/category matched to what was happening.

2.

While the story itself didn't blow me away as much as I'd hoped, that cover, wow!  And if you've seen the cover to the second book, they're not backing down on awesomeness!

3.

Now this is one I haven't read, but I loved the cover so much I went ahead and am sharing it.  Because I honestly wasn't sure what it was at first, and it took me awhile, I don't know why, to realize it was a girl's head!

4.

Again with the SmartyPants Romance books, I loved the covers of the Donner Bakery series as well!

5.

So, I love all the covers of the books in the Winston Brothers series, and I've read all but I think one or two of the earlier ones, and one or two of them I've read in past years, but I had to share all of them.  I was lucky enough to get this magnet set at Book Bonanza back in August as well.

Hmm, I'm seeing a trend of beards on my favorite covers this year, did you notice that?

6.

I kind of like the new trend of kind of comic-ish looking covers, and this series definitely had that!

7.

A great story with a great cover!

8.

Again, a great story with a great cover.

9.

Again, this is totally the librarian/bookseller in me adoring this picture!  Plus it totally reminds me of the movie The Mummy.

10.

I just really like the way the basketball is peeking out of a heart-shaped "tear" in the paper/cover of the book.


What do you think of my cover choices?  Would you agree on any?  What covers blew you away this year?


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Blog Tour Review with Giveaway: Sky Without Stars (System Divine #1) by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell

Book info:

Title:  Sky Without Stars
Author:  Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell
Series:  System Divine #1
Genre:  Retellings, YA Science Fiction
Release Date:  March 26th, 2019
Publisher:  Simon Pulse
Source:  E-galley from publisher which did not influence my opinion
My rating:  4 stars

Synopsis: 
A thief. An officer. A guardian.   

Three strangers, one shared destiny . . .  

When the Last Days came, the planet of Laterre promised hope. A new life for a wealthy French family and their descendants. But five hundred years later, it’s now a place where an extravagant elite class reigns supreme; where the clouds hide the stars and the poor starve in the streets; where a rebel group, long thought dead, is resurfacing. 

Whispers of revolution have begun—a revolution that hinges on three unlikely heroes… 

Chatine is a street-savvy thief who will do anything to escape the brutal Regime, including spy on Marcellus, the grandson of the most powerful man on the planet. 

Marcellus is an officer—and the son of a renowned traitor. In training to take command of the military, Marcellus begins to doubt the government he’s vowed to serve when his father dies and leaves behind a cryptic message that only one person can read: a girl named Alouette. 

Alouette is living in an underground refuge, where she guards and protects the last surviving library on the planet. But a shocking murder will bring Alouette to the surface for the first time in twelve years…and plunge Laterre into chaos. 

All three have a role to play in a dangerous game of revolution—and together they will shape the future of a planet. 

Power, romance, and destiny collide in this sweeping reimagining of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, Les Misérables.

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My Review:
If you've followed me for awhile, you know that I'm always up for a retelling, especially when it is one like this, a major classic story, Les Miserables.  This book did not disappoint in that aspect.  Sky Without Stars is definitely a sweeping epic of a story. Even set in space on another planet, in another solar system, it has the operatic feel of Les Miserables.  As I read I definitely tried to match up characters with what I knew of that classic, since I'd only seen the movie and never read the book. This world was one that had a lot of things going on that seemed kind of counter-intuitive to a future society.  Because while they had screens built into their arms, no one knew how to actually read words anymore.  It was all pictures and people actually speaking.  That in itself hurt my heart so much!  But it helped to make the poor third class people really appear to be down below everyone.  I loved that they had brought their French customs and names of things like the Bastille along with them.  

It did end on a cliffhanger, and at such a long book, almost 600 pages, I can only imagine how much we have left to this story when the next book comes out.  A great story for both science fiction readers, as well as deep classic types of storytelling lovers.

About the Authors:

Jessica Brody

Jessica Brody is the author of more than 15 books for teens, tweens, and adults

including Addie Bell’s

Shortcut to Growing Up, A Week of Mondays, Boys of

Summer, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father, and the three books in the sci

-

fi

Unremembered trilogy. She’s also the author of the Descendants: School of Secrets

series, based on the hit Disney Channel original mo

vie, Descendants. Her books

have been translated and published in over 23 countries and Unremembered and 52

Reasons to Hate My Father are currently in development as major motion pictures.

She lives with her husband and four dogs and splits her time betwee

n California and

Colorado.

Visit her online at JessicaBrody.com. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram

Jessica Brody 

Jessica Brody is the author of more than 15 books for teens, tweens, and adults including Addie Bell’s Shortcut to Growing Up, A Week of Mondays, Boys of Summer, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father, and the three books in the sci-fi Unremembered trilogy. She’s also the author of the Descendants: School of Secrets series, based on the hit Disney Channel original movie, Descendants. Her books have been translated and published in over 23 countries and Unremembered and 52 Reasons to Hate My Father are currently in development as major motion pictures. She lives with her husband and four dogs and splits her time between California and Colorado.   

Visit her online at JessicaBrody.com. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram @JessicaBrody

Jessica Brody

Jessica Brody is the author of more than 15 books for teens, tweens, and adults

including Addie Bell’s

Shortcut to Growing Up, A Week of Mondays, Boys of

Summer, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father, and the three books in the sci

-

fi

Unremembered trilogy. She’s also the author of the Descendants: School of Secrets

series, based on the hit Disney Channel original mo

vie, Descendants. Her books

have been translated and published in over 23 countries and Unremembered and 52

Reasons to Hate My Father are currently in development as major motion pictures.

She lives with her husband and four dogs and splits her time betwee

n California and

Colorado.

Visit her online at JessicaBrody.com. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram

@JessicaBrody

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Joanne Rendell 

Joanne Rendell is the author of three novels and holds a PhD in English literature. She teaches fiction writing to teens and kids and is a board member for the youth Shakespeare company, New Genesis Productions. With her husband and son, Joanne divides her time between New York City, and New Paltz, New York. Visit Joanne at JoanneRendell.com.

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Pre-order Campaign 

Pre-order a hardcover of SKY WITHOUT STARS by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell from a participating indie bookstore* before March 26, 2019 and you’ll receive an exclusive Sky Without Stars Gift Pack, including the following: 

  

• A limited edition two-sided 12”x16” poster featuring the ONLY available colored version of the book’s world map 
• A Sky Without Stars bookplate, signed by both authors 
• A Sky Without Stars postcard 

• A Sky Without Stars bookmark 

  

The gift pack will be included with your book when it is shipped or picked up in store. 

  

*Click here for participating stores.

Tour Schedule:

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Giveaway:

Prize: Win a copy of SKY WITHOUT STARS by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell (US Only) 

Stars: 20th March 2019 

Ends: 2nd April 2019  
 

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