Ocean Views Covers (Wondrous Covers Wednesday)

Posted July 26, 2023 by Amber in Wondrous Covers Wednesday / 0 Comments

Hello everyone. We’re now halfway through the week and I could not be happier. Wednesday are always my favorite day and not only because of this lovely feature I’ve missed so much. Here is my newest edition of Wondrous Covers Wednesday. Please notice the lovely graphic I made for it.

Wondrous Covers Wednesday is a weekly feature where I choose to showcase three covers with similar attributes and themes. Sometimes I will share more than three covers and sometimes I won’t necessarily love all of them but still want to share. You can view the page of past editions here.

Wondrous Covers Wednesday Covers

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me Jamison Shea

When I was putting together this post, I went through a ton of 2023 covers to see if anything spoke to me. I was originally going to do a general Water-themed post but when I saw these three, I knew I wanted to feature them.

I love how they’re all so similar but you can really tell about the different moods and themes they will feature.

Good As Gold looks like a Contemporary YA. I love the water on this cover the most. The reflections come across so well. The colors are all so gorgeous together. I haven’t been able to find out who the cover designer is.

I Feed Her To The Beast and The Beast Is Me gives me a sinister and darker vibe. It makes me so sad I wasn’t able to pick this up at ALA last month but I was granted a digital galley from Netgalley which I can’t wait to read. The font is so interesting and unique. I haven’t seen anything like it on many books, but if you have, let me know! The cover designer is Rich Dead.

What She Missed just screams grief to me or maybe renewal with the bright sky behind the cover person. The cover designer is Laylie Frazier.

Second of all, can I just say how much I love that these are all by Black authors with Black girls being featured on the cover?

If you want to see where the covers come into play with any of these books, here are the Goodreads summaries:

~First Cover~

Good As Gold by Candace Buford

Fans of Netflix’s Outer Banks will devour this contemporary YA novel with a propulsive mystery about one girl’s search for her town’s legendary sunken treasure in order to clear her family’s name and save her future. Some treasures are meant to stay buried . . . Casey’s life in Langston has been charmed. She’s the queen bee of her prep school, a shoe-in for prom queen, and on her way to the Ivy League come fall. She can’t wait to leave the whole town of Langston behind her. That is until her father loses his job and she finds herself on the brink of losing her ticket out of town. The town of Langston is known for its picturesque lake and robust summer tourism. Everyone who lives in town has heard the rumors at some point– there is a treasure buried deep below the surface that no one has ever been able to find. Few people actually believe in the treasure, and even fewer have searched for it. But some have tried . . . Suddenly an outcast from her popular squad, Casey falls in with a new group of friends who are exactly the opposite of her usual crowd, but are more accepting. Together they devise a plan to find the elusive treasure, in a quest to get the money and save Casey’s family and her future. But what they find is much more complicated than just a pile of gold. With thrilling twists and turns and high stakes adventure, fans of Outer Banks will devour this summer adventure.

~Second Cover~

I Feed Her To The Beast and The Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story.

Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood.

The primordial power Laure gains promises influence and adoration, everything she’s dreamed of and worked toward. With retribution on her mind, she surpasses her bitter and privileged peers, leaving broken bodies behind her on her climb to stardom.

But even as undeniable as she is, Laure is not the only monster around. And her vicious desires make her a perfect target for slaughter. As she descends into madness and the mystifying underworld beneath her, she is faced with the ultimate choice: continue to break herself for scraps of validation or succumb to the darkness that wants her exactly as she is—monstrous heart and all. That is, if the god-killer doesn’t catch her first.

From debut author Jamison Shea comes I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me, a slow-burn horror that lifts a veil on the institutions that profit on exclusion and the toll of giving everything to a world that will never love you back.

~Third Cover~

What She Missed by Liara Tamani

Sixteen-year-old Ebony Jones is devastated when her family moves from Houston to her grandmother’s house in the country. There’s absolutely nothing for Ebony in Alula Lake, Texas. So she thinks.

Award-winning author Liara Tamani’s What She Missed is a rich and emotional novel that celebrates change, nature, friendship, growing up, and love, for readers of Sarah Dessen’s The Rest of the Story and Elizabeth Acevedo’s Clap When You Land.

When Ebony and her parents move from Houston, Texas, to her grandmother’s house in a small lake town, Ebony is sure her life is doomed. And to make matters worse, the ghost of Ebony’s beloved grandmother—a strong swimmer who tragically drowned in the lake—is everywhere. Alula Lake does offer one perk: reconnecting Ebony with her childhood friend, Jalen.

But as Ebony settles into life, she finds herself drifting away from Jalen and gravitating to his older sister, Lena. Lena is chaotic, disorderly, and rebellious, yet she offers a reprieve for the anger and sadness Ebony feels about losing so much.

An ode to nature, art, friendship, history, family, and love, this lyrical coming-of-age story explores one girl’s summer of self-discovery as she reimagines the world and her place in it. What She Missed is for fans of Sarah Dessen, Nina LaCour, and Nicola Yoon.

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