New Cover Look--Arcana Chronicles

So I noticed that Kresley Cole's Arcana Chronicles will have an entirely new look for the release of the last book Dead of Winter.

Firstly, it gets kind of annoying when the covers change right at the end or even right at the beginning and don't even get me started on the middle! Now I KNOW this has nothing to do with the author and that it's more a publisher thing. For sales likely, or something else entirely! I don't know! I would love to know though!

The covers are...different. Now don't get me wrong, they're nice, but I liked the old ones better! Even when I thought the characters didn't quite look YA-enough, more like adults. Maybe that plays a role in it. But pretty much after I read Poison Princess I loved the cover better for understanding it! And Endless Knight! Wow!

Here's what the first two used to look like:

Aren't they awesome? The guy on the second--won't say who it is in case you haven't read it yet, kind of reminds me a bit of James Marsters in his iconic role of Spike. Granted this guy doesn't have James's chiseled cheekbones, but it's a pretty good likeness!

Now here are the new covers:

They just aren't very...eyecatching. You know? The colors are nice, the font's good...but where's the lure? I don't feel very drawn into the story because there's not much to see. These books are kind of a post-apocalypse setting and you can kind of see that with the settings on the covers, there's a lack of...anything.

So now it's really going to make my own collection of these look weird because I have the hardcover of the original Poison Princess, a mass market paperback of the old Endless Knight and then there'll be the hardcover of Dead of Winter with the new look! And the first two are signed! Guess I should've bought the hardcover of Endless Knight at RT, that way at least they'd all be hardcovers, but it can be tiring to constantly buy the same book in different formats. I've done it before, but yeah...it's tiring and costly.