Cover Characteristic – Fruit

Each week we will post a characteristic and choose 5 of our favorite cover’s with that characteristic. If you want to join in and share your 5 favorite covers with the weeks particular characteristic, then just make a post, grab the meme picture (or make your own) and leave your URL here or over at Sugar & Snark.

My Picks This Week:

5. Strawberries Stilettos and Steam by Imani True & Dreama Skye
4. Splat! by Eric Walters
3. Eve & Adam (Eve & Adam #1) by Michael Grant & Katherine Applegate

2. Glass Frost (First Frost #2) by Liz DeJesus


My Favorite Pick:

Book Title: Famished

Authors: Lauren Hammond

Genres: YA, Dystopian

Release Date: July 26, 2011

 

There is no United States. There is no world. An asteroid has destroyed what the human race knew as earth and The Great Famine has wiped out most of the surviving human population. For the few remaining survivors, food is scarce--precious--a luxury. A luxury that most humans can’t find.

Seventeen-year-old Georgina Carver is fortunate. She’s survived the destruction. She eats three times a day while the rest of humanity is plagued by The Great Famine. And she’s safe, hidden away in an underground colony with her family and several other families of survivors.

All of that changes the day she’s randomly selected to be a gatherer. Georgina must leave her safe yet simple world and venture out into a world unknown. A vast, dangerous, destroyed world that could literally eat her alive.

After Georgina is severely injured, her life begins to fall apart. She can’t remember how she got home or what happened to her while she was on the new earth. The boy she is crushing on avoids her and she keeps having visions that involve an unknown person with violet eyes.

As Georgina begins to unravel the truth, it doesn’t take her long to figure out that maybe her safe yet simple life isn’t that safe at all.

This is when a cover is done right. How brilliant is that chewed, rotting apple core amid a charred earth and a stormy, dark sky. Desperate. Dystopian. Sinister. This cover has me\ intrigued before I even check out what the story about. There are some books I'd buy on appearance alone -- this is definitely one of them!