Cover Beach #5

Cover Beach is a feature by Stephanie from Books Paradise. I love covers and I must confess that I usually buy my books by the cover. Yes, I know it isn't as right as rain. Cover Beach is also a post about covers I love (regardless of I would buy it), sometimes about the difference between German and English covers and something along those lines.


This time there are three beautiful covers I love. The combination of content, color and image make my hearts melt.


Shadow Heir by Richelle Mead

Series:	Dark Swan #4
Genre:	Urban-Fantasy
PublicationDate:	February 2nd 2012
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
Publisher:	Bantam Books
Websites:	Richelle Mead | Goodreads
Purchase:	Buy here

Blurb: New York Times bestselling author Richelle Mead returns to the Otherworld, a mystic land inextricably linked to our own--and balanced precariously on one woman's desperate courage... Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham strives to keep the mortal realm safe from trespassing entities. But as the Thorn Land's prophecy-haunted queen, there's no refuge for her and her soon-to-be-born-children when a mysterious blight begins to devastate the Otherworld... The spell-driven source of the blight isn't the only challenge to Eugenie's instincts. Fairy king Dorian is sacrificing everything to help, but Eugenie can't trust the synergy drawing them back together. The uneasy truce between her and her shape shifter ex-lover Kiyo is endangered by secrets he can't--or won't--reveal. And as a formidable force rises to also threaten the human world, Eugenie must use her own cursed fate as a weapon--and risk the ultimate sacrifice...










When the Sea is Rising Red by Cat Hellisen

Genre:	Paranormal (YA)
PublicationDate:	February 28th 2012
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Websites:	Cat Hellisen | Goodreads
Purchase:	Preorder here

Blurb: After seventeen-year-old Felicita’s dearest friend, Ilven, kills herself to escape an arranged marriage, Felicita chooses freedom over privilege. She fakes her own death and leaves her sheltered life as one of Pelimburg’s magical elite behind. Living in the slums, scrubbing dishes for a living, she falls for charismatic Dash while also becoming fascinated with vampire Jannik. Then something shocking washes up on the beach: Ilven's death has called out of the sea a dangerous, wild magic. Felicita must decide whether her loyalties lie with the family she abandoned... or with those who would twist this dark power to destroy Pelimburg's caste system, and the whole city along with it.










The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman

Genre:	Paranormal (YA)
PublicationDate:	January 19th 2012
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	448
Publisher:	Atom
Websites:	Robin Wasserman | Goodreads
Purchase:	Buy here

Blurb: It was like a nightmare, but there was no waking up. When the night began, Nora had two best friends and a boyfriend she adored. When it ended, she had nothing but blood on her hands. Chris was dead. Adriane couldn't speak. And Max, Nora's sweet, smart, soft-spoken Prince Charming, was gone. He was also-according to the police, according to her parents, according to everyone-a murderer. Desperate to prove his innocence, Nora's determined to follow the trail of blood, no matter where it leads. But Chris's murder is just one piece in a puzzle that spans continents and centuries. Solving it may be the only way she can save her own life.