Saturday 13 August 2016

SERIES PROMOTION & MY COVER COMMENTS - DEMON ROAD TRILOGY BY DEREK LANDY

Title: Demon Road
Series: Demon Road
Author: Derek Landy
Genre: YA, Paranormal, Fantasy, Horror
Publisher: Harpercollins
Release Date: 28th August 2015

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Full of Landy’s trademark wit, action and razor sharp dialogue, DEMON ROAD kicks off with a shocking opener and never lets up the pace in an epic road-trip across the supernatural landscape of America. Killer cars, vampires, undead serial killers: they’re all here. And the demons? Well, that’s where Amber comes in...Sixteen years old, smart and spirited, she’s just a normal American teenager until the lies are torn away and the demons reveal themselves.

Forced to go on the run, she hurtles from one threat to another, revealing a tapestry of terror woven into the very fabric of her life. Her only chance rests with her fellow travellers, who are not at all what they appear to be…
 

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MY COVER COMMENTS
I always think that the cover of the first book of a series sets the tone and theme for the whole series. The cover for Demon Road is quite dramatic. It has a yellow background with the prominent female at the forefront of the cover, with devilish goat-like horns protruding from her head. The female is almost silhouette like with a red "devilish" light across her eye area. The title "Demon Road" is in what I would call a "name up in lights" kind of style. Towards the bottom of the cover is a scene of a road and a car with red headlights on it driving toward you as you look at the book cover. I think the byline of "She's having a hell of a time" is well placed and seem to fit the book cover.  
Would the cover make me pick this book up from a bookstore shelf? Yes, I'd be super curious about the hellish/devilish horned woman on the front cover!


Title: Desolation
Series: Demon Road
Author: Derek Landy
Genre: YA, Paranormal, Fantasy, Horror
Publisher: Harpercollins
Release Date: 7th April 2016

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Reeling from their bloody encounter in New York City, Amber and Milo flee north. On their trail are the Hounds of Hell – five demonic bikers who will stop at nothing to drag their quarries back to their unholy master.

Amber and Milo’s only hope lies within Desolation Hill – a small town with a big secret; a town with a darkness to it, where evil seeps through the very floorboards. Until, on one night every year, it spills over onto the streets and all hell breaks loose.

And that night is coming.
 


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MY COVER COMMENTS
This cover also features a road at the bottom part of it like the one in the book one, but there are three motorbikes on this road. . . Hell's Angels? The main coloring on this book is blue, there's also a flash of lightening in the background of the cover which draws your eye.The upper part of the book cover has a female face on it, maybe the same female as on the bk1 cover as both females look to have green eyes to me. This time the female face is highlighted in a blue theme. The female also appears to have blue scales on one side of her face too. The series name "The Demon Road Trilogy" remains in the red colour of book one which in my opinion gives some cohesion throughout the series. The byline on this book, which also continues in the theme of "hell" says . ."It's a hell of a place". I really like a good thought provoking byline. A good byline makes you so curious you pick up the book to learn more about it. I would say that though I like the cover, I really don't think it is as dramatic and attention grabbing as that of book one or book two.
Would the cover make me pick this book up from a bookstore shelf? I'm not wholly sure I would immediately pick this book up to learn more. It would be a case of it what else was on the shelf with it, that perhaps would draw my eye and curiosity more.

Title: American Monsters
Series: Demon Road
Author: Derek Landy
Genre: YA, Paranormal, Fantasy, Horror
Publisher: Harpercollins
Release Date: 25th August 2016


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Bigger, meaner, stronger.

Amber closes in on her murderous parents as they make one last desperate play for power. Her own last hopes of salvation, however, rest beyond vengeance, beyond the abominable killers - living and dead - that she and Milo will have to face.

For Amber's future lies in her family's past, in the brother and sister she never knew, and the horrors beyond imagining that befell them.


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MY COVER COMMENTS
Once again there is the road featured at the very bottom of the cover. This time it's a large american truck/rig on the road approaching you, with its lights casting a red glowing trail in front of the truck/rig.The green eyed female is featured again, this time bathed in an orange, flame like light. The colours on this cover are attention grabbing. This time the title has blue to one corner and the rest of it is red and white stripped. I don't wish to offend anyone and I do realise that the blue isn't actually stars, its more of a rippling water affect. To me the styling of title "American Monsters" makes me visualise and think about the American flag. The byline this time reads "It's all going to hell" which seems perfectly fitting for the last book in this trilogy.
Would the cover make me pick this book up from a bookstore shelf? As I find the cover attractive I would likely pick up the book to learn more about it.

Do I think the covers work well together as a trilogy? I think the covers for Demon Road (BK1) & American Monsters (Bk3) work together perfectly, you almost instantaneously recognise them as part of the same series. Though the cover for Isolation has the female with the green eyes on it like the other two, for me it is the "odd one out" of the three covers. I don't find it as eye catching and to be honest it would not make me immediately pick it up from a book store shelf to learn more about it.

So you have read my cover comments of the individual covers and on the covers as a trilogy, what do you think to the cover? Have you read any of the trilogy? ~Jeanz



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