Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
This cover is one that definitely speaks for itself when it comes to its beauty. Who would have thought that a book with lungs on its cover would make it into a post about beautiful covers.
As with most covers, the colours are one of the most important parts for me. The colour scheme of this cover has to be one of my favourites of all time. The light pink paired with dark blue makes the intricate details of this cover shine.
Let’s be honest, flowers can make almost any cover beautiful, however here they really offer something special, which is made even more special when you remember what the book is actually about.
Synopsis: Can you love someone you can never touch?
Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions.
The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals.
Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It feels like punishment.
What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too?
Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young
I really like the art style of this cover, the gold lighting/highlights are really eye-catching. It’s on just the right side of realistic looking. I can’t begin to tell you how much I hate covers with actual people on. I’m so glad this trend of book covers has died. Even steamy books have cartoon style covers these days.
I love how simple this cover is, it’s a very good indicator of what this story is. That sounds like a bad thing, but what I actually mean is it shows that this book does not mess around. It seems a little silly to say a cover gives off serious badass vibes, but this one definitely does. I read Sky in the Deep a long time ago but I can definitely remember how cool Eelyn is.
This is one of the books that I wish I’d reviewed back in the day. I read this long before I reviewed everything I read and I’m severely regretting it.
Synopsis: Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield—her brother, fighting with the enemy—the brother she watched die five years ago.
Faced with her brother’s betrayal, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbour is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan thought to be a legend, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved family.
She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend, who sees her as a threat. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together, or risk being slaughtered one by one. Driven by a love for her clan and her growing love for Fiske, Eelyn must confront her own definition of loyalty and family while daring to put her faith in the people she’s spent her life hating.
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