Top 10 of 2018 Day 2 - Best Book Covers of 2018 with Giveaway

Hope you're having a great Christmas!  Finally I have a day I don't work!  I have family get-together with my dad's side today, so won't be around to check any comments out probably till later tonight.  

Since I'm still not seeing any of the hosts from last year sponsoring this year, so I am not going to link to them today.  Today the topic is the best book covers of 2018.  I always try to pick from only the books I've read, so while there may be a lot of other books with maybe better covers, these are my favorite covers of the books published this year that I read.  No particular order.

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Those are my top 10 favorite covers of books I read this year.   What books made your favorites this year?

Don't forget to check out my post yesterday to enter the giveaway for one of my top 10 favorite books of 2018 HERE.  

Of course I've also got a giveaway for today! 

Giveaway:
Depending if you are international and would need your book shipped from The Book Depository, or if you are in the US and I can ship using my Amazon Prime, you'll get to pick one of the books below.  Because of cost, some of the books for International were not on my list above, but were books that were runners-up or ones that I planned to get to this year, but did not.  There are a few I didn't get to but wanted to that are on the Amazon list as well.  There will also be a second prize today of a $5 gift card to Amazon.

International Prize Choices from The Book Depository: 1.  Bright We Burn by Kiersten White 2.  Fight or Flight by Samantha Young 3. The Lantern's Ember by Colleen Houck 4.  The Beauty that Remains by Ashley Woodfolk 5.  When Life Gives You Demons by Jennifer Honeybourn 6.  Kiss of the Royal by Lindsay Duga 7.  Not For Me by Kat de Falla 8.  To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo 9.  Grim Lovelies by Megan Shepherd 10.  Valiant by Merrie Destefano

US Prize Choices from Amazon: 1.  Bright We Burn by Kiersten White 2.  Fight or Flight by Samantha Young 3. The Lantern's Ember by Colleen Houck 4.  By A Charm and A Curse by Jaime Questell 5.  Everlife by Gena Showalter (or 1 of the first 2 in the series) 6.  #murdertrending by Gretchen McNeil 7.  The Bird and the Blade by Megan Bannen 8.  Mammoth by Jill Baguchinsky 9. To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo 10.   Grim Lovelies by Megan Shepherd

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Top 10 of 2017 Day 2 - Best Book Covers of 2017

The Top Ten of 2017 event is hosted by Jaime from Two Chicks on Books, Rachel from Fiktshun, Bridget from Dark Faerie Tales,  Fallon from Seeing Double in Neverland, and the ladies from Take Me Away To A Great Read!

Today's topic was a little easier.  I always try to pick from only the books I've read, so while there may be a lot of other books with maybe better covers, these are the best covers of the books published this year that I read.  No particular order.  

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(There's a dachshund on it, so that always wins!)

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(There are french fries on it.  'Nuff said.)

Those are my favorites of the covers I read this year.  What about you, have you read any of these?  Do you have a favorite cover from the books you read?  While you're here, make sure you check out my giveaways below!

• Midwinter's Eve Giveaway Hop
• End of the Year Double Giveaway
• 2017 Debut Authors Bash with Alexandra Ballard

If you want to check out all the books I read this year, you can go HERE. 

Discussion Post: Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover - Or What's With All the Identical Covers?

So, lately, I've noticed a lot of self-published books having the exact same cover.  The same people/couple, etc.  I understand that costs are expensive to have a brand new cover made, but when you use a picture that is kind of a unique couple, well, I don't know.  Sometimes it bothers me because I already identify that picture with the book I've already read.  Let me show you a couple of examples:

This is a book I read and loved, you can read my review HERE.   Lately I've subscribed to a lot more authors' emails and a few always put the pictures of their own books in every email, and I've seen a few with this exact couple, just maybe reversed, or the tattoos are missing.  Look at these below:

See, exact same picture, just reversed and missing the tattoos, or not quite centered on the cover.

Here is another one I'm seeing several just like it:

I have read this one, review is HERE.  And here is a matching one.

Now here is another favorite book, and this one is actually one I've seen in a physical bookstore.  HERE is my review of it.

Now, of course, as soon as I started working on this post, I couldn't find any of the ones that matched this one. But I'll keep my eyes open for before I post this just in case they pop up again.

Okay, and while this next one I haven't been seeing exact copies, the fakeness of the inserted babies on some covers is crazy!  Like this one:

So, have you noticed any matching covers like this?  I don't necessarily mind having the same person or couple on the covers, it's just when they're basically in the exact same position, same picture. That bugs me.  What do you think?

And because my discussion posts need at least one gif:

Top 10 of 2015 Day 2: Best Covers of 2015

I'm so excited to join into this challenge that is being hosted by several awesome blogs:  Fiktshun, Two Chicks on Books, Tales of a Ravenous Reader, and Magical Urban Fantasy Reads.   Today's topic has to be a book published in 2015, and should hopefully be one you read in 2015, but doesn't have to be.  Once again I'm going to list them in no particular order, along with a link to my review of them.

1.  Reawakened by Colleen Houck

2.  Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson

3.  The Curse of Jacob Tracy by Holly Messinger

4.  The Heir by Kiera Cass

5.  The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow

6.  Diary of a Haunting by M. Verano - you have to actually see it in person, there is a clear dust jacket on it, and when you take it off, the picture on the front changes!

7.  An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

8.  Until Beth by Lisa Amowitz

 

9.  Denton Little's Deathdate by Lance Rubin

10.  I had to choose a whole trilogy where all the covers were just awesome, The Kanin Chronicles by Amanda Hocking:  Frostfire, Ice Kissed, and Crystal Kingdom.  

Those are my choices of top covers, and they are all books I've read, although one, Frostfire, I actually read in December of 2014, but it wasn't officially published until 2015 so I figured it counted.  Have you read any of these? What do you think of my choices?