All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley
This is a bit of a rogue choice for me. It doesn’t have bright colours, so it’s not the most eye-catching. However, it does have a delicate beauty to it that I really appreciate. It makes sense to have this type of cover for a thriller book and I really like the painted effect. Very pretty.
I’m also a big fan of dark green. I don’t think this picture I took ages ago (when I wasn’t so great at taking and editing photos) really does it justice.
Synopsis: The Sleeping House was very much awake . . .
Days after a tragedy leaves Marin Blythe alone in the world, she receives a surprising invitation from Alice Lovelace—an acclaimed horror writer and childhood friend of Marin’s mother. Alice offers her a nanny position at Lovelace House, the family’s coastal Maine estate.
Marin accepts and soon finds herself minding Alice’s peculiar girls. Thea buries her dolls one by one, hosting a series of funerals, while Wren does everything in her power to drive Marin away. Then Alice’s eldest daughter returns home unexpectedly. Evie Hallowell is every bit as strange as her younger sisters, and yet Marin is quickly drawn in by Evie’s compelling behaviour and ethereal grace.
But as Marin settles in, she can’t escape the anxiety that follows her like a shadow. Dead birds appear in Marin’s room. The children’s pranks escalate. Something dangerous lurks in the woods, leaving mutilated animals in its wake. All is not well at Lovelace House, and Marin must unravel its secrets before they consume her.
Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn
This is one of those covers that speaks for itself. Bree looks stunning and oh boy do I love Selwyn. It’s so great to actually see what he looks like and I do really like the character designs. I know blue and red highlights are pretty over done at this point, but I feel like that’s for a reason – it looks amazing. The artist did such an incredible job with the lighting on this cover.
All of this covers for this series are ridiculously stunning. I actually think book three is my favourite, but I don’t have a photo of it yet despite owning it for years.
Synopsis: The shadows have risen, and the line is law.
All Bree wanted was to uncover the truth behind her mother’s death. So she infiltrated the Legendborn Order, a secret society descended from King Arthur’s knights—only to discover her own ancestral power. Now, Bree has become someone
A Medium. A Bloodcrafter. A Scion.
But the ancient war between demons and the Order is rising to a deadly peak. And Nick, the Legendborn boy Bree fell in love with, has been kidnapped.
Bree wants to fight, but the Regents who rule the Order won’t let her. To them, she is an unknown girl with unheard-of power, and as the living anchor for the spell that preserves the Legendborn cycle, she must be protected.
When the Regents reveal they will do whatever it takes to hide the war, Bree and her friends must go on the run to rescue Nick themselves. But enemies are everywhere, Bree’s powers are unpredictable and dangerous, and she can’t escape her growing attraction to Selwyn, the mage sworn to protect Nick until death.
If Bree has any hope of saving herself and the people she loves, she must learn to control her powers from the ancestors who wielded them first—without losing herself in the process.
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