Would You Read Me? Don't Judge a Book By It's Cover (2)

Last week's book was... For Darkness Shows the Stars

For Darkness Shows the Stars

by Diana Peterfreund

Hardcover, 384 pages

Expected publication: June 12th 2012

by Balzer + Bray

It is a jaw dropping cover, very a la Across the Universe. I specially like the font, and how the colors come together.

So, here is how it went:

-11- said "hell's yeah I'll read it!"

-8- said "Maybe..."

-6- "Nah, not my style/ Nah"

After seeing the cover, how many of your minds have changed?

On to the next one then!

Let's play another little game shall we? I am going to give you guys a summary of a book that may or may not sound good (you be the judge) but I am not going to give you an image to accompany the book. This way we can find out if you would read it or not even if the image of the book sucks a lot.

There’s something strange and deadly loose in Philadelphia…  

Eleanor Fitt has a lot to worry about. Her brother has gone missing, her family has fallen on hard times, and her mother is determined to marry her off to any rich young man who walks by. But this is nothing compared to what she’s just read in the newspaper— 

The Dead are rising in Philadelphia. 

And then, in a frightening attack, a zombie delivers a letter to Eleanor…from her brother. 

Whoever is controlling the Dead army has taken her brother as well. If Eleanor is going to find him, she’ll have to venture into the lab of the notorious Spirit-Hunters, who protect the city from supernatural forces. But as Eleanor spends more time with the Spirit-Hunters, including their maddeningly stubborn yet handsome inventor, Daniel, the situation becomes dire. And now, not only is her reputation on the line, but her very life may hang in the balance.

 So, now, all you have to do is say if you would read it or not!

(Yes or no will suffice if you don't wanna write a lot)

Next Wednesday I will post a new summary with no image,

I will also post the cover and book information of this week.

PS; If you know the name, image or whatever of this book do not say anything. Don't give any sort of information away please.

I have a thing for...Covers that look cartoonish. (Plus: Deadlocked; Sookie Stackhouse #12)

They are just plain delightful. Some people hate them to no end, I just happen to love them, and any book I see with a cover like this I have the irresistible urge to pick up and read, which is how I ended up reading Charlaine Harris, Nicole Peeler, Tate Hallaway (yes, she doesn't just write Young Adult Vampire Novels, she also writes Adult)...

  

(Any cover of any book by Charlaine Harris essentially)

 

 

I can't freaking wait to get my hands on one or two of Dakota Cassidy's books,

they sound like so much freaking fun!

 

Speaking of such covers, the new cover for the new Sookie Stackhouse novel is out (finally, this book is taking forever) and here it is:

The summary, unfortunately, is minuscule at the moment...

"From Charlaine's blog, Sookie gets kidnapped and a character (a man) that Charlaine thought was dead, isn't."

But at least some process is being done! Hallelujah!

Anyways, what is really funny about this type of covers is that they are all essentially Adult books! In YA they use flashy amazingly done covers, and in Adult they use silly type girls-just-want-to-have-fun covers. Maybe some YA books should catch on to this trend, I would so pick up any YA book with a fun cartoonish cover!

Would you pick up any of these books basing your judgement solely on the cover and title (which is often hilarious as well)? That's how I picked up Dead Until Dark, and I thank my lucky stars for that!

PS; Little late on posting right? Oh well, content over quantity I say!

PPS; please, ladies and gentlemen, don't forget to vote.to.your.left. on the polls! It would really be so nice of you, extra brownie points to anyone who has done so and everyone that will do so!

Birthday coming up... and so I will be busy for the next couple of days.

I will most likely post tomorrow about Harry Potter world, cause I'm going there as part of my b day present!!! But for today I got nothing, zip, zero. I have a sort of review on Fahrenheit 451if you are interested, but is more like a comment on the classic.

Goodreads

I am not going to actually review this because it was just a college assignment, but even though the writing is choppy and made me want to hit the writer with his own book, the story is what matters and this story is a good one.

If I DIDN'T have to read it for my final test then maybe I would have sincerely enjoyed it more. But from here you can see the foundation of so many other dystopian YA novels, it's truly uncanny.

That's it, a comment. I am starting to read Heartless by Gail Carriger today, so expect a review of that one soon!

For now you all have a great weekend!