Bookinistas: Cover Love!

Now that 2011 is right around the corner, covers have been popping up around the blogosphere left and right and we can't get enough. We're just a couple of cover whores and like to drool over covers like the best of 'em. Here are a few of the ones we're loving at this moment. How pretty are they?

First up, Veronica Roth's DIVERGENT, in stores May 2011...

In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris, and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together, they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes-fascinating, sometimes-exasperating boy fits into the life she’s chosen. But Tris also has a secret: one she’s kept hidden from everyone, because she’s been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly-perfect society, she also learns that her secret might be what helps her save those she loves . . . or it might be what destroys her.

Excuse us while we drool. The ring of fire pops against the stormy sky exuding mystery. And the Chicago skyline? So cool. There's no doubt this book will fly off the shelves in May--what a package!

Next on our list is BLOOD MAGIC by Tessa Gratton in stores April 26, 2011.

The murder of her parents has left Silla damaged and lost, and Silla's insistence that her father is not to blame only alienates her further from her friends and family. When a mysterious spell book arrives, Silla hopes it will lead to some answers about her parents' killer. In her first attempt at magic, in an old graveyard near her home, Nick, the new boy in town spies on her; he recognizes the magic that Silla is performing as the same magic his mother performed with him, before she went mad. Before long, Silla and Nick connect, though Nick is unwilling to share his history with blood magic with Silla. When Silla's friends start showing signs of possession, Silla, Nick and Silla's brother, Reese, must contend with a deadly, immortal woman who will stop at nothing to take the book of spells from them.

You don't even have to see a large version of this cover to recognize the attention-grabbing qualities. Black, grey and white with splashes of red? Yes please. And the creepy flower, oh don't get us started on the flower. Can't wait to see this one on shelves!

It wouldn't be cover love without Elana Johnson's POSESSION available June 2011.

In a world where thinkers control the population and rules aren't meant to be broken, one fifteen-year-old girl is tired of belonging to someone else.

This cover is, in one word, stunning. The colors of the butterfly against the crystal-like icecube and stark white background? Flawless. And we're sure there is deeper meaning behind the entire image, which is even more exciting. There is no doubt this book will catch your eye with its color-scheme alone. Then when readers check out the cover copy? Sold.

Check out what the other Bookinistas are up to...

Elana Johnson is loving LOSING FAITH.

Christine Fonseca - is showering praise for her BOOKANISTA buds and their covers.

Beth Revis recommends INCARCERON.

Carolina Valdez Miller dives into DARK WATER.

Kirsten Hubbard praises PARANORMALCY.