Today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme celebrates flowers, which is another opportunity for me to look at book covers a bit more closely! I’m not a very visual person and often don’t notice/remember covers, so I’ve been enjoying this kind of topic lately. Let’s see what I can do!
 
 
Flowers are such a common element of cover design that I had trouble picking favourites — especially when it came to danmei and baihe, where cherry blossoms abound!
I haven’t read all of these books yet (Thistlemarsh is still on my TBR, and I only just started Princeweaver), and some of the books I didn’t love… but the cover designs stood out for one reason or another for all of them. I was surprised by the relatively dark theme in the second row until I added in The Beauty’s Blade there to break it up a bit: you don’t always associate flowers with that kind of dark cover, but here we are.
Curious to see what others have picked today!
I love how understated a lot of the flowers on these covers are! I need to try Julie Leong. Thistlemarsh is also on my “Want to Read” list!
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Flowers are common for sure! I love your choices, and I always love seeing UK exclusive covers. I’m also trying to fit in Thistlemarsh
Beautiful covers! These days, flowers seem to show up mostly on fantasy books, which I don’t read, so I didn’t do it today
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Pretty selections, thanks for sharing your #TTT
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