Top 10 Week #2: Best Book Covers of 2012

Top 10 of 2012 is one week of bookish goodness hosted by the fantastic peeps at Two Chicks on Books, Fiktshun, Confessions of a Bookaholic, and Magical Urban Fantasy Reads! Every day from December 24th to December 28th, I'll have a Top 10 list up regarding to the day's topic. Today's topic is:

Best Book Covers of 2012

As a designer and art geek, this topic is one of my favorite ones. Since book covers and their design are the focal points of this post, the covers will be in big images while I provide a short cover analysis (pun off of one of my internet BFF Monica's blog). The images themselves will link to the book's Goodreads link. And, if I wrote a review for the book, the link will be provided, too.

Teaser Tuesday {1}

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Don't I have a treat for you guys--and for my first Teaser Tuesday, too! I just got approved on Netgalley for The Treachery of Beautiful Things by Ruth Frances Long (Yeep!), and it's amazing so far. My teaser comes from the bound galley, so this might not even be in the final version of the book, but here you go.

"Tom had a wildness about him tonight, something just a bit desperate, as if his music scared him and yet he needed it."

-Page 3, The Treachery of Beautiful Things

What do you think? I think this is one of those instances where a beautiful cover actually means a beautiful book. :) Though, I'm not very far in yet, so I can't make a permanent judgment just yet.

Do you have a teaser today? Share it below!

Waiting on Wednesday {20}

This week, I'm waiting for...

The Treachery of Beautiful Things
By: Ruth Frances Long

The trees swallowed her brother whole. And Jenny was there to see it. Years later, when she returns to the woods where Tom was taken to say good-bye at last, she finds herself lured into a world where stunning beauty masks the most treacherous of evils, and strange and dangerous creatures await—creatures who seem to consider her the threat. Among them is Jack, mercurial and magnetic, with allegiances that shift as much as his moods. Determined to find her brother, with or without Jack’s help, Jenny struggles to navigate a faerie world where nothing is what it seems, no one is who they say, and she’s faced with a choice between salvation or sacrifice—and not just her own. 

-Summary from Goodreads 
Release Date: August 16th, 2012   
Publisher: Penguin

That cover. Oh. My. Goodness. That cover is a winner right there. And the synopsis sounds totally fantastic. This looks like an absolutely brilliant novel! (Also, isn't the title just totally bad-um, rump?)

What are YOU waiting for this week?