{Cover Wars} Cover Loving week 13-15

Come one come all to hear what the awesome readers of Forget About TV, Grab a Book like. Today we keep on revealing the winners of Cover Wars a place where covers from the same book get launched into the ring and you guys decide who you like best. Think of it as a sort of bookish cover dance of ;)

Until we finish the winners count down we will be revealing 3 winning covers at a time, so please bear with me a little longer until all the winners are revealed. Once your cover favorites are announced we will return to our regular programming.

From a top secret life to being part of a group of runaways is how Anna’s life changed, from living on a lab watching her dad’s research to escaping and hiding with the altered boys. If you thought this Lil Berry is talking about Altered by Jennifer Rush, then you are 100% CORRECT. So let’s stop messing around and go look at Altered’s cover winner a.k.a. your favorite shirtless guy:

THE FINAL COVER!!!!!

From hot altered boys we moved on to a world of magic and shifters, a girl that was content with her life and destiny until the night she messed up big time by letting a normal buy know her true identity. In Nightshade by Andrea Cremer we have a whole new world of magic unlocking before us, now let’s see which cover you guys feel is the one that describes this book best:

THE GIRL THAT ISN’T AFRAID TO SHOW HER WILD SIDE!!!

The next week we went a little more contemporary with The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines, where black and white battled it out in order to see which cover represented better the love stories between Ashton and Beau (in The Vincent Boys) and Lana and Sawyer (in The Vincent Brothers). Before we dig more into this love stories let’s take a look at what you guys liked best:

THE SEXY BLACK AND WHITE COVERS win this round!!!!!!!!

If you want to get to see more covers getting some loving come join us this Saturday as we get closer into revealing all your Cover Wars favorites.

Giveaways

Hi guys as you know Forget About TV, Grab a Book is having a giveaway of 2 Altered bookmarks for U.S. only, what you may not know is that I've decided to change the dynamic a little. If and only if this contest gets more the 2,000 entries I will add an Altered by Jennifer Rush book which will be making this giveaway international, well almost, it is limited to the countries that the Book Depository delivers, but the bookmarks will still be for U.S. only.

Take me to the Altered Giveaway

I am also taking this opportunity to let you know about another giveaway, this one is massive guys. You see Miriam Foster author of City of a Thousand Dolls is doing this big giveaway as a way to celebrate the release of her book, which its stores on February 5, 2013. 

Now guys in case you have missed this book completely pay attention to the following:

An exotic treat set in an entirely original, fantastical world brimming with deadly mystery, forbidden romance, and heart-stopping adventure.

Nisha was abandoned at the gates of the City of a Thousand Dolls when she was just a child. Now sixteen, she lives on the grounds of the isolated estate, where orphan girls apprentice as musicians, healers, courtesans, and, if the rumors are true, assassins. Nisha makes her way as Matron’s assistant, her closest companions the mysterious cats that trail her shadow. Only when she begins a forbidden flirtation with the city’s handsome young courier does she let herself imagine a life outside the walls. Until one by one, girls around her start to die.

Before she becomes the next victim, Nisha decides to uncover the secrets that surround the girls’ deaths. But by getting involved, Nisha jeopardizes not only her own future in the City of a Thousand Dolls—but her own life. 

Now lets see what the City of a Thousand Dolls release giveaway is all about:

Starting on Sunday, January 6th, Miriam Foster is going to give away a book a day. Some will be adult, some will be young adult, some will be middle-grade. Some will be books that came out in the past year, some will be books that aren't out yet. Some will be hardbacks, some will be ARCs. But she will give away at least one book a day for 30 days. 

Here's how it works.

--Every day Miriam Foster will post a new book giveaway.

--Each individual giveaway will last one week.

--All single book giveaways will be international. Multi-book ones will be US only. 

--ON THAT DAY'S POST you'll enter by leaving a comment. You get:

+1 entry for commenting (commenting is mandatory to enter)
+1 entry for sharing on Twitter or Facebook
+1 entry for following the blog
+1 entry if you've never won a contest here before
+1 entry for adding up your own points

(Winners will be chosen randomly Maximum five entries on each contest.)

But wait, there's more!

If you blog about the 30 Days of Bookery, you get an automatic +1 to every giveaway on the blog that runs during that 30 days. Your post must:

-have a link back to this post.
-state the reason for the contest (to celebrate the City of a Thousand Dolls release!)
-include a picture of the City of a Thousand Dolls cover.

Leave the link to your blog post in the comments section of this post (Her original Post) and you'll get an automatic entry to every giveaway for 30 days.

And yes, there is still more!!

Author Miriam Foster will also be wandering Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook for those thirty days and giving away random books over there. Those giveaways will be unannounced and quick, so if you're interested in them, you might want to head over to her official blog and follow her in any way you can.

So there you have it. 30 days of book giveaways.

{Cover Wars} Altered by Jennifer Rush

Ok, if you let me I would like to start this edition of Cover Wars a little differently, seeing as Wednesday is a day for book cover in this blog I thought maybe you guys would enjoy a pick at how Jennifer Rush's Altered cover shoot

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Now that we've all seen it I guess you are curious to know what Altered is all about and how it will play in this weeks edition of Cover Wars. First lets take a look at the book description:

When you can’t trust yourself, who can you believe?
Everything about Anna’s life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. There’s Nick, Cas, Trev . . . and Sam, who’s stolen Anna’s heart. When the Branch decides it’s time to take the boys, Sam stages an escape, killing the agents sent to retrieve them. 
Anna is torn between following Sam or staying behind in the safety of her everyday life. But her father pushes her to flee, making Sam promise to keep her away from the Branch, at all costs. There’s just one problem. Sam and the boys don’t remember anything before living in the lab—not even their true identities.
Now on the run, Anna soon discovers that she and Sam are connected in more ways than either of them expected. And if they’re both going to survive, they must piece together the clues of their past before the Branch catches up to them and steals it all away.

Now then shall we take a look at this weeks contestans??
First we have the ARC edition, the fearless one that for some lucky bloggers was the first face they knew for Altered and may now and forever old a special place in their hearts:

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Next we have the face that yesterday hit the shelves of all bookstores in hopes of one day jumping into your shelf, we have the one and only FINAL cover!!!

I fell that the purpose of the ARC cover is to over shadow every cover within viewing distance it just catches your eye, then you dig a little deeper and look into the guy's eyes and I see a tenderness in his eyes and I just feel that he is looking at Anna in a moment where she doesn't realize he is watching a moment just for himself.

In the FINAL cover on the other hand is making me feel like I am looking at the back of a strong guy, one that even if he can't remember his past or anything outside the lab, he will make up in conviction and stay strong until he can no more. The effect on the font at how the words almost fit makes a perfect contrast with the word that the letters are spelling.

Author Jennifer Rush was really nice, she gave me two bookmarks to give out to you guys!!!

Rules
*US only 

*Winner has 48 hours to reclaim price

if he/she doesn't a new winner will be

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