covers and coughing

[leelastarsky]

Sick. As. A. Dog. :~(

the only thing keeping me going is codral.

Neverthless, I am excited by the release of the book covers for HBP.



I saw the Mary GrandPre one first and have to say I think it's my favourite of her covers so far. Though I really liked what she did for OotP. Someone on my flist said that she really needs to go back and redo the 1st 4 because the last two were a distinct change in style from the first 4, and I agree with this to some extent.

Then I saw the adult cover and meh I hate photo covers, so it did nothing for me.

Then I saw the UK cover and WOW. Talk about dynamic compared to the US one! I really, really like this one. Harry looks terrified but determined and Dumbledore is 'kicking ass and taking names!'. The fire surrounding them is from Dumbldore's wand, I suspect in response to another Voldie confrontation and, from what I have read on my flist, I am not the only one thinking that Dumbledore will be biting the big one this time round. Hero's journey and all that.

I really, REALLY want to see the back covers now! Specially the UK one.

Comments

[belovedranger.livejournal.com]

I was excited by the UK cover too. I sure hope that you feel better soon... I had the icky throat thing for 2 full weeks, while my kids got the throwing up thing. Ugh.

[argyle-s.livejournal.com]

You know, I've been that taken with Mary GrandPre's stuff. Don't get me wrong, it's much better than I could do, it's just, I've never thought it really fit the tone of the books. I even like the "adult" UK covers better.

The "Children's" UK covers are always the best though.

Of course, I really hated the Mass Market Paperbacks they did around the time fo the first movie, and some of the foriegn language covers are truly dreadful, so I don't complain to much. I just really wish we got the UK covers.

[lissannej.livejournal.com]

Am sorry you are not well, Kate. Hope you're better soon!

I'm not a fan of Mary GrandPre, never have been, although I didn't mind the OotP cover...

[leftsockarchive.livejournal.com]

There's an interesting article about Grandpre in which she talks about the shift between the first four covers and the last two.

Here it is.

:)