Not only is this a double take in the stock image, but both of these covers block multiple images together for the cover. Check this out:

Funny How Things Change by Melissa Wyatt was published April 27, 2009 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

The Sorcerer and Sainte Felice by Ann Finnin will be published June 1, 2010 by Flux.

Poor guy. I think he’s gotten the raw end of a deal in both covers. I really don’t like the first cover, and having read the book, I think the cover further makes this a tough sell title. The girl on the cover just doesn’t even make sense to me – she’s an afterthought on the design, and the green totally fades her out.

As for the second cover, it’s marginally better, but it still suffers from color saturation issues.

Do you prefer one to another? What are your thoughts on the blocked image covers? I don’t think either succeeds, and I think the colors on both are not the best choices.