Romance<\/strong><\/p>\n I absolutely adore<\/em> the hedgehog.<\/p>\n In general, I don’t like headless models, but it works here, and more impressively, this is for a short story.<\/p>\n I complain a lot of female cover models, so here are some well done covers for stories with female protagonists.<\/p>\n Fantasy<\/strong> : Female Covers<\/p>\n Seanan McGuire almost always gets marvelous covers for the Toby Daye series.<\/p>\n I’ve not cared much for many of the earlier covers in the Kate Daniels series, but this is marvelous and gorgeous.<\/p>\n Faith Hunter’s Jane Yellowrock covers are always good, and this was no exception.<\/p>\n This is a short story cover, and I really like the lack of a cover model here. And it’s quite clear this is a steampunk story.<\/p>\n Again, no model on the front, but I really like this cover. Some combination of the font and the colors and the title drew me in and made me look at this book.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fantasy<\/strong> : Male<\/p>\n I love the covers in this series almost as much as I love the stories. This is Cal.<\/p>\n I love the tone of this cover, and how it describes the story. I just wish I’d love the story itself, more.<\/p>\n This is another cover that perfectly nails the story.<\/p>\n I really like how the model is a mere outline, but you can still tell he’s a man of color.<\/p>\n No people at all on this cover. I just think it’s gorgeous.<\/p>\n This is another cover that is very different from what else I generally see out there, but represents the book very well, and is what drew me to consider the book in the first place.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fantasy<\/strong> : Other<\/p>\n Here are the rest of the covers I loved, including what might have been my favorite cover of the year.<\/p>\n This is fun, goofy cover that matches the tone of many of the stories<\/p>\n All the covers in this series are beautiful. There are alternate covers out there that I don’t like at all, and can’t understand why anyone would have changed from this.<\/p>\n I believe this is my favorite cover of the year. <\/p>\n Simply gorgeous. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since I pointed out covers I hated, it’s only fair I point out covers I loved. And there are quite a few of them. YA The Raven Boys (2012) Maggie Stiefvater Grave Mercy (2012) Robin LaFevers Romance Midsummer Moon (1987) Laura Kinsale I absolutely adore the hedgehog. Scarlet Sails (2013) TS Rhodes (short story) In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1092,1090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading","category-covers","category-years-favorites"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2U5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The-Raven-Boys\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/The-Raven-Boys.jpeg?ssl=1\")
<\/a>
\nThe Raven Boys<\/a><\/em> (2012) Maggie Stiefvater<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nGrave Mercy<\/a><\/em> (2012) Robin LaFevers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nMidsummer Moon<\/a><\/em> (1987) Laura Kinsale<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nScarlet Sails<\/a><\/em> (2013) TS Rhodes (short story)<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nChimes at Midnight<\/a><\/em> (2013) Seanan McGuire<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nMagic Rises<\/a><\/em> (2013) Ilona Andrews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nBlood Trade<\/a><\/em> (2013) Faith Hunter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThe Strange Case of Finley Jayne<\/a><\/em> (2011) Kady Cross<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nGraveminder<\/a><\/em> (2011) Melissa Marr<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nSlashback<\/a><\/em> (2013) Rob Thurman<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nLibriomancer<\/a><\/em> (2012) Jim C. Hines<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThieftaker<\/a><\/em> (2012) D.B. Jackson<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nMidnight Riot<\/a><\/em> (2011) Ben Aaronovitch<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nFated<\/a><\/em> (2012) Benedict Jacka<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nFade to Black<\/a><\/em>\u00a0 (2013) Francis Knight<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThe Mad Scientist\u2019s Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius<\/a><\/em> (2013) John Joseph Adams<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nHeaven\u2019s Net is Wide<\/a><\/em> (2007) Lian Hearn<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\n<\/em>River of Stars<\/a><\/em> (2013) Guy Gavriel Kay<\/a><\/p>\n