The Not So Chosen One by Kate Emery
The cover is the reason why I wanted to read this book. Purple is one of my favourite colours, especially for book covers, and this one is full of witchy imagery. Which is one of my favourite aesthetics. I’m quite easy to please. I’m also a big fan of a lot of small items/details, but ones that are fairly minimalist. Does that make sense?
I also really love the typography choice. It really catches your eye and compliments the genre of this book really well.
I wish this book was as interesting as its cover. This, for me, was a classic case of being burned by a beautiful cover.
ARC Review: The Not So Chosen One by Kate Emery
Synopsis: Lucy is just a regular teenager with regular worries: homework, friends, getting home for dinner on time. Oh, and there’s the small matter of how she’s going to tell her mother about her unplanned pregnancy.
So when she first hears about Drake’s College, a school for students with magical talent, she’s sure someone’s messing with her. But despite her scepticism, she’s soon swept up into a world beyond her wildest imaginings—and now she’s got something else to hide.
At Drake’s, Lucy befriends Jack, a teacher’s assistant who has secrets of his own. More concerningly, Lucy’s ‘talent’ doesn’t seem to be materialising, and one of the other students collapses in a mysterious incident. There’s danger in the air…
An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it another million times most likely. I see Charlie Bowater cover art, I buy the book – I just can’t help myself. I really wish I had the physical copy however it was on offer on Kindle so I could not deny buying it there.
It is very impressive to create such a beautiful cover when the colours are very muted, however, there is something about the art style that is captivating. Also if it can still look stunning, even in black and white on a Kindle it says a lot about how strong the artwork is for An Enchantment of Ravens.
Book Review: An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson
Synopsis: Every enchantment has a price.
With a flick of her paintbrush, Isobel creates stunning portraits for a dangerous set of clients: the fair folk. These immortal creatures cannot bake bread or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and they trade valuable enchantments for Isobel’s paintings. But when she receives her first royal patron—Rook, the autumn prince—Isobel makes a deadly mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes, a weakness that could cost him his throne, and even his life.
Furious, Rook spirits Isobel away to his kingdom to stand trial for her crime. But something is seriously amiss in his world, and they are attacked from every side. With Isobel and Rook depending upon each other for survival, their alliance blossoms into trust, perhaps even love . . . a forbidden emotion that would violate the fair folks’ ruthless laws, rendering both their lives forfeit. What force could Isobel’s paintings conjure that is powerful enough to defy the ancient malice of the fairy courts?
Isobel and Rook journey along a knife-edge in a lush world where beauty masks corruption and the cost of survival might be more frightening than death itself.
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