My Top 5 Covers of February 2025
Blocky colours dominate this list!
First off: Happy Valentine’s Day! Give yourself and loved ones much love but most importantly…don’t forget to celebrate (your) books!
Let’s not dilly-dally and get to it!
Note: presume that I have not read any of these books unless I’ve indicated as such. Any observations made about the story the covers represent and its quality are only based on the synopses and the cover. Also, these are not in any order!
#1
Book Cover Designer: Mumtaz Mustaga Design (Instagram | Website)
The watercolour and paint texture gives it lots of lovely visual interest. Turquoise is, personally, such a great, calming colour that paired with the splotches of pink and beige-brown tones makes for a tranquil mood. It’s a cover to stare at and notice the ballerinas seemingly unwinding after their performances, unhurried with getting out of their costumes. Fitting of a story of two sisters and their passion for ballet, that no matter what they do, it all links back to each other and ballet.
#2
Book Cover Designer/Illustrator: unknown
It’s deceptively simple and clean with its minimal design and colour palette but the playful incorporation of a classic UFO as the lamp head is what took the cake for me. Cheeky but subtle.
#3
Book Cover Designer/Illustrator: unknown
The fountain pen-esque typeface goes well with the surreal photo, inferring that the story takes on a bigger-than-life feel, inviting us to contemplate the story and the cover. Plus, more obviously, obscuring the face of the person allows any reader to envision themselves in the person’s place and imagine it’s them that is being taken by death.
#4
Book Cover Illustrator: Sas Milledge (Instagram | Website)
How have I not seen you around? Some of the other books/comics Sas has illustrated the covers for:
The Raven Boys books (graphic novel adaption) by Maggie Stiefvater
The Lost Carnival by Michael Moreci (under DC Comics)
Three Strike Summer by Skyler Schrempp
The drama, the contrast of the pale yellow-peachy tones of the MC with the blue-black background, and the movement of the monster and leaves swirling around the MC sells the story’s action-adventure aspect.
#5
Book Cover Designer/Illustrator: unknown
The vintage, summery colours simply pop! So much art and liveliness captured in the scenery and seemingly narrated by, witnessed, recorded, and/or read by the central figure. Fitting for a literary editor MC keen to establish and preserve her legacy while fighting to embrace her identity and culture in a time of racism and sexism.
What do you guys think of these covers? What are the books you’d put on your top 5 for February 2025?
Hopefully you all have managed to do some reading in January! Remember to give yourself some love and spend some time with a good story (or fifteen).
Until next time!