{"id":12647,"date":"2015-12-29T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T13:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=12647"},"modified":"2020-06-08T15:09:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T19:09:11","slug":"the-books-of-2015-covers-i-loved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/12647","title":{"rendered":"The Books of 2015: Covers I Loved"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, now we’ve seen my least favorite cover of 2015, here are my favorite covers of the year.<\/p>\n

First up, the final cover of Fables.<\/p>\n

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Fables Vol. 22: Farewell<\/em> (2015)<\/p>\n

Everyone is in this cover.
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\nAnd another cover, quite different from the first.<\/p>\n

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Ms. Marvel Volume 2: Generation Why<\/em> (2015) G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, and Jacob Wyatt<\/p>\n

I love the way she’s portrayed as on the surface paying no attention to the world around her because she’s on her phone, but she is paying attention–and doing something about it.<\/p>\n

It just pleases me.<\/p>\n

Just a note that although I loved several of the issue covers of Black Widow (they were gorgeous in fact) the actual covers of the graphic novels were… meh.
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\nAnd to close, an actual book!<\/p>\n

\"Half-Resurrection-Blues\"<\/p>\n

Half-Resurrection Blues<\/em> (2015) Daniel Jos\u00e9 Older<\/p>\n

In contrast to the worst cover of 2015<\/a>, this cover depicts the actual main character, acting in a way the main character acts.<\/p>\n

AND it depicts something that actually happened in the book, without giving anything away.<\/p>\n

I do believe that ROC has some of the best covers, usually getting things right AND being attractive in the meantime.<\/p>\n

ADDENDUM the First:<\/p>\n

\"Dark-Heir\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Dark Heir<\/a><\/em> (2015) Faith Hunter<\/p>\n

I really do love the Jane Yellowrock covers. Yes, the models don’t always look Native American, but they are obviously trying very hard to get the model to match Jane, and she is never in a submissive or ridiculous position, which I love. (This is ALSO a ROC cover.)<\/p>\n

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Deadly Spells<\/em> (2015) Jaye Wells<\/p>\n

This one isn’t anywhere near as good as the Jane Yellowrock covers, but it’s still pretty good. It shows Kate in an active position, she looks pretty much like Kate is described, and the background matches what you’d see in the Cauldron. So good job Orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, now we’ve seen my least favorite cover of 2015, here are my favorite covers of the year. First up, the final cover of Fables. Fables Vol. 22: Farewell (2015) Everyone is in this cover.         And another cover, quite different from the first. Ms. Marvel Volume 2: Generation Why (2015) G. […]<\/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":true,"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-12647","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-3hZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12647","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=12647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}