My favorites up there are far and away the Sherry Thomas covers, I love them and can’t wait to hold Delicious in my hands. My mind never matches the cover to the character so that isn’t a factor for me.

I’ve enjoyed Kresley Cole’s book but hated most of the covers. On the first, the guy looks anemic and HELLO, it’s the girl that’s the vampire. The second is too generic. Nathan is pretty but I prefer no man titty (it rhymes). I’d say the third is my favorite because it does feel slightly unreal, otherwordly, and fairy tailish.

Can’t stand Meljean Brook’s covers, except the fonts. I love fonts when they’re well done. I’d take Demon Night over the first two.

I tend to avoid the cartoons but didn’t realize it until I thought about it now. I’m not terribly fond of the Fallen cover–odd woman out here.

I find the terribly realistic Quinn strange but I think I could get used to it.

Other recent favorites have been the new Hoyt and Mine before Midnight. That’s probably enough with the Thomas covers to declare my preference to be beautiful, non-painterly woman alone in a state of undress.

Here’s more pictures of Nathan and where you can find a link to his portfolio! Yummy!

Holy jamoly, that IS Nathan Kamp? Whoa, he must have like 328 different kinds of gorgeous looks! I’ve been all fangirly over him for months now, but I didn’t make the connection.

(Sorry, now I shall go squee in private.)

When a certain cover model begins to appear everywhere, I usually hesitate to pick up the book he is on because it’s annoying. I remember that one model was the hero for two of Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton books–the model portrayed the hero for a Bridgerton sister on one cover, and the other cover was portraying a Bridgerton brother, so it came across as though the Bridgerton sister and brother were love interests. Plus, I don’t find any cover models very attractive.

I watch Avon’s covers because I’ve heard they put a lot of money into finding out what entices the average romance reader. Berkley–their live action covers can look really cheesy. Bantam–hasn’t had enough authors to have an opinion, but I’m meh about Sherry Thomas’ covers. Too plain for me. Signet–tends to have very beautiful covers. St Martins Press–switches between live action covers and “painted covers” and do a pretty good job. Kensington and Dorchester–more misses than hits. Pam Rosenthal’s Bravas were the best I’ve seen from that line. Not a fan of a male cover model’s torso and face being used.

What do people here think about covers that are taken from famous paintings? A few years back I loved the cover for Susan Carroll’s The Dark Queen. The cover of Pam Rosenthal’s The Slightest Provocation was also lovely. And ditto Lauren Willig’s covers.