cover love: sweetly |
Those folks over at Little, Brown have done it again. Yesterday, author Jackson Pearce revealed ARCs (and their corresponding covers!) to her upcoming novel, Sweetly, a companion piece to Sisters Red.
As long as Little, Brown keeps up with the awesome covers, I will continue to say nice things about them. But one of these days I will actually post a finalized, hi-res image of Pearce’s cover art, not something with an ARC sticker slapped on it or a shoddy cell-phone snapshot.
I think what I love the most about both this and Sisters Red’s cover is the fact that the designer pulls off an illusion of symmetry quite beautifully. Sneaky artsy liar. There are few covers that make me take a second look and say, Wow, that’s really cool. Not just pretty or gorgeous or stunning — it’s cool because it creeps me out simply by using technique.
Covers like these make you stare a little longer than most people are comfortable with. Sweetly’s face (literally) is equal parts enchanting and eerie.
And the little tiny house? It kinda reminds me of the little red Home Alone house. You know, if the Home Alone house sat in the middle of the forests of Live Oak, South Carolina.
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