Friday, November 22, 2019

Cover Lust: Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu

Cover Lust is something that I do every other week where I feature a book cover that I absolutely love!


10637959Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends. They had been best friends since they were six, spending hot Minneapolis summers and cold Minneapolis winters together, dreaming of Hogwarts and Oz, superheroes and baseball. Now that they were eleven, it was weird for a boy and a girl to be best friends. But they couldn't help it - Hazel and Jack fit, in that way you only read about in books. And they didn't fit anywhere else.

And then, one day, it was over. Jack just stopped talking to Hazel. And while her mom tried to tell her that this sometimes happens to boys and girls at this age, Hazel had read enough stories to know that it's never that simple. And it turns out, she was right. Jack's heart had been frozen, and he was taken into the woods by a woman dressed in white to live in a palace made of ice. Now, it's up to Hazel to venture into the woods after him. Hazel finds, however, that these woods are nothing like what she's read about, and the Jack that Hazel went in to save isn't the same Jack that will emerge. Or even the same Hazel.

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen," Breadcrumbs is a story of the struggle to hold on, and the things we leave behind.

Designer credit: Sarah Hoy
Artist credit: Erin McGuire


Why did I pick this cover? 
I honestly love covers with a purple/pink/orange color scheme and I love the illustrations on the top half of the book. It's what made me take this book home from a used book sale. At first, I didn't like the blankness on the bottom half of the cover, but it really draws your eyes to the illustrations and I like the frost effect.
 What are your thoughts? Tell me in the comments!

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