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 Blog Tour Review - The Fall Is All There Is by C.M. Caplan All Petre Mercy wanted was a good old-fashioned dramatic exit from his life as a prince. But it's been five years since he fled home on a cyborg horse. Now the King—his Dad—is dead—and Petre has to decide which heir to pledge his thyroid-powered sword to. As the youngest in a set of quadruplets, he’s all too aware that the line of succession is murky. His siblings are on the precipice of power grabs, and each of them want him to pick their side. If Petre has any hope of preventing civil war, he'll have to avoid one sibling who wants to take him hostage, win back another’s trust after years of rivalry and resentment, and get an audience with a sister he's been avoiding for five years. Before he knows it, he's plunged himself into a web of intrigue and a world of strange, unnatural inventions just to get to her doorstep. Family reunions can be a special form of torture. The Fall Is All There Is is one of the book...

Favourite Covers of 2017 - SixForSunday



Good afternoon,

I didn't do Steph's SixforSunday challenge last week, because the topic was six books you didn't enjoy in 2017, and honestly I didn't have six.

This week's topic is favourite covers of 2017, and this one I'm much more comfortable with. I always judge books by their covers, and I totally don't have a problem with that.

You can check out all of the topics here on A Little But A Lot and join in yourself.




Okay, six favourite covers of 2017:


First up is Ink by Alice Broadway. This book is just gorgeous! Look at how shiny that cover is! It's all metallic copper and catches the light in the most amazing way. It fits really well with the story too. I asked Alice on Twitter recently if the cover for Spark will match it, and she told me that I won't be disappointed.





Second is The Scarecrow Queen by Melinda Salisbury. I love so much about this cover, but particularly the way it ties in so nicely with the rest of the trilogy and with the story itself. I also have this weird idea I can't shake that these covers were created using a large bottle and a rather lithe model who then had to hold her breath until the picture was finished!




The third book I'm going for is Winter Magic. This anthology of stories curated by Abi Elphinstone was reissued in 2017 with a gorgeous new cover. The cover itself just shouts wintery themes and magic, but what I really love is that each of the elements in the cover is taken from one of the stories in the anthology, and parts of the cover are reused to introduce each story. L and I are loving picking out each one as we read the stories.


For my fourth I think I'll say Masquerade by Laura Lam. I really like its simple elegance, and the circus/carnival theme is what first attracted me to this trilogy. Also, it ties in really nicely with the rest of the trilogy, which is always something I look for.



Fifth is The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. The butterflies, just look at the butterflies! It also has shiny foil writing.



The final one I'm going to say is Sky Song. Now Sky Song was actually published in 2018, and looks sensational, particularly with its sprayed edges. For this list I'm going with the ARC. The cover is just so gorgeous, with the stars and the Northern Lights playing around the most intriguing quote. Seeing this on Twitter was my first introduction to Abi Elphinstone's writing, and as soon as I read that quote, set against that background, I knew I needed this book! I was totally thrilled when I received this ARC.




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