Welcome back to Cover Snark!
Sarah: The whole set of new covers is killing me.
There are forwards by Tessa Bailey, Ali Hazelwood and Alexis Hall and others.
Elyse: I don’t remember a court jester in those books
Maya: In every iteration, the checkerboard pattern shirt makes no sense to me
Elyse: Also are people going to pick up those books expecting the characters not to be white?
Sarah: I didn’t know Emma was a poly romance
it looks like a rather smoking hot triad from the cover. Is this a revised edition?
Amanda: Okay a couple questions. They say that there are forewords by prominent YA authors. Half of them aren’t. Like Alexis Hall and Tessa Bailey.
Sarah: yet another example of ‘clearly I am not the audience’
Amanda: Also the covers make them seem like contemporary retellings but I don’t think they are?
Sarah: Very contemporary. How far is the distance between the vibe of the cover illustration and the actual text of the book? Miles? Nautical miles? Light years?
Amanda: Nothing in the jacket copy could tell me either way.
Carrie: He looks like he’s cold but can’t figure out how his zipper works
Sarah: Shirts! Shirts are a great choice!
Kiki: Wash your belly-button, bud.
That tattoo is reminding me of a radioactive symbol.
Sarah: I think it is?
No, it’s not I’m wrong.
Kiki: I thought it was too, so I have to assume his belly button has got some stuff going on.
Amanda: It’s a biohazard sign which I think might be worse.
Kiki: That’s it! Yeah, that’s absolutely worse.
Sarah: You don’t want your belly button to be a biohazard.
I remember when mine nearly turned inside out while I was pregnant. I looked like a torpedo, all out in front. But I wasn’t a biohazard. I was cute.
Amanda: That looks like a child.
Sarah: oh gosh, yeah…it does.
Lara: Major ick.
Sarah: I wonder why that is. The height difference, for sure, but also the hair and the long nightgown looking dress?
Kiki: I think all of that, combined with her hiding the mop behind her back, is really giving it a “I hope dad doesn’t find out!” vibe.
Sarah: It’s really interesting that we’re agreeing but there are so many little things leading us to that impression
Amanda: I also think there’s a teen movie where the main character wear’s converse to prom, but I’m blanking.
Sarah: Also that the illustrated dress looks too big for her, like she’s wearing an adult’s clothing and she’s small.
From Melodie: Today’s bears seem to be smirking? The one on all fours seems to be outright laughing. Do they know something about the cover model that we don’t?
Sarah: Those bears are not rescuing him. They’re mocking him.
“Aw, look who went out into the frigid national parks with no fur and no clothes!”
Amanda: Is he interrupting the bears having sex?
Sarah: If so they don’t seem too mad about it.