{Cover Wars} Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Hello guys and welcome to Cover Wars where covers battle it out and ask you which one is the best face for the story they hold inside. I am deeply sorry for my absence last week but I assure you I don’t stop posting Cover Wars just because I get moody, that I can assure you my dearest reader. Two weeks ago we had the Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan a dark future where desires and rules don’t seem to mix very well, you guys have spoken and now it’s time to see your champion! The Forest of Hands and Teeth winner is…..

Looking Through cover

Now that you’ve taken a good look at the cover people found most visually appealing as well as a better face for the story how about we take a look at this week’s contenders? This week we jump into the third book of an Urban Fantasy, YA series. One that I find it to be a really smart transition for new and future readers from this author, shall we take a look at Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon the third installment of the Chronicles of Nick?

Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That's the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isn't the average teenager. He's a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands. And his first mandate is to stay alive while everyone, even his own father, tries to kill him. He's learned to raise the dead, divination and clairvoyance, so why is learning to drive and keep a girlfriend so hard?

But driving isn't the primary skill he has to master. Survival is. And in order to survive, his next lesson makes all the others pale in comparison. He is on the brink of becoming either the greatest hero mankind has ever known - or he'll be the one who ends the world. With enemies new and old gathering forces, he will have to call on every part of himself to fight or he'll lose everyone he cares about. Even himself.

Now that we all know a little bit about Nick and his world (even if it’s just a teeny tiny bit) lets jump to it and take a look at this week’s contenders.

First we have the cover that follows the “norm” when it comes to the covers of Chronicles of Nick, the one that lets you know “Yeah those are my buddies but I have something unique inside”.

Then we have the cover that is trying to stand out from its fellow covers making us doubt it’s YA roots and yet it strangely enough fits the concept of a Sherrilyn Kenyon (at least it does in my head).

So what do you guys think about this change in the third book in the series? A good move? A bad one? Which cover would find its way the fastest to your bookshelf? Is there something in particular that you like from our contenders? Let us know be it with a vote on the poll or the much appreciated comment down below.

My entry to Roof Beam Reader 2013 TBR Pile Challenge

Organizer:  Roof Beam Reader
The Goal: To finally read 12 books from your “to be read” pile (within 12 months).

Specifics: 
1. Each of these 12 books must have been on your bookshelf or “To Be Read” list for AT LEAST one full year. This means the book cannot have a publication date of 1/1/2012 or later (any book published in the year 2011 or earlier qualifies, as long as it has been on your TBR pile – I WILL be checking publication dates). Caveat: Two (2) alternates are allowed, just in case one or two of the books end up in the “can’t get through” pile.

2.  To be eligible, you must sign-up with Mr. Linky below – link to your list (so create it ahead of time!) and add updated links to each book’s review.  Books must be read and must be reviewed (doesn’t have to be too fancy) in order to count as completed.

3.  The link you post in the Mr. Linky below must be to your “master list” (see mine below).  This is where you will keep track of your books completed, crossing them out and/or dating them as you go along, and updating the list with the links to each review (so there’s one easy, convenient way to find your list and all your reviews for the challenge).  See THIS LINK for an idea of what I mean.  Your complete and final list must be posted by January 15th, 2013.

4. Leave comments on this post as you go along, to update us on your status. Come back here if/when you complete this challenge and leave a comment indicating that you CONQUERED YOUR 2013 TBR LIST!  Every person who successfully reads his/her 12 books and/or alternates (and who provides a working link to their list, which has links to the review locations) will be entered to win a $50 gift card from Amazon.com or The Book Depository!

5. Crossovers from other challenges are totally acceptable, as long as you have never read the book before and it was published pre-2012!

*Note – You can read the books on your list in any order; they do not need to be read in the order you have them listed. As you complete a book – review it, and go back to your original list and turn that title into a link to the review - that will keep the comments section here from getting ridiculously cluttered.  For an example of what I mean, Click Here.

UPDATE:  I’ve decided to make a small change/addition to this year’s challenge.  On the 15th of each month, I’m going to post a “TBR Pile Check-In.”  This will allow participants to link-up their reviews from the past month and get some recognition for their progress.  There will also be small mini-challenges and giveaways to go along with these posts (Such As: Read 6 books by the June Check-in and be entered to win a book of your choice!).  I’m hoping this will help to keep us all on track and make the challenge a bit more engaging/interactive. If it goes well, maybe I’ll keep this format for future years.

P.S. Some of this books may not have been in my TBR Pile in Goodreads but they have been in my shelfs for a while now and deserve to be read.

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My 2013 TBR Pile Challenge List:

1. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins  (2009)

2. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (2009)

3. Feed by Mira Grant (2010)

4.  Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory (2008)

5. The Maze Runner by James Dashner (2009)

6. The Zombie Autopsies by Steven C. Schlozman (2011)

7. Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill (2010) Completed 01/18/2013

8. Invincible  by Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011)

9. Hard Bitten by Chloe Neill (2011) Completed 01/25/2013

10. The Iron King by Julie Kagawa (2010)

11. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (2007)

12. Blood Warrior by H.D. Gordon (2011)

Alternates:

1. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (2003)

2. Drink Deep by Chloe Neill (2011) Completed 02/05/2013

Trailer Sunday #1 Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon

At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. . .until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity.
Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead.

But before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students are turning into flesh eating zombies. And he's next on the menu.

As if starting high school isn't hard enough. . . now Nick has to hide his new friends from his mom, his chainsaw from the principal, and keep the zombies and the demon Simi from eating his brains, all without getting grounded or suspended. How in the world is he supposed to do that?