A couple more double-takes for you today:

The Iron Witch by Karen Mahoney is a 2011 Flux title. It’s an urban fantasy about fairies and alchemy. (It’s been on my to-read shelf for a couple years now, too.) I really dig this cover, though that may be partially due to my weakness for sparkles. The markings on the girl’s arm are straight from the story, and I love that they extend to the design of the title as well. Plus, she’s obviously clutching something relevant too.

So Much it Hurts by Monique Polak is a 2013 Orca title about a girl who becomes romantically involved with an abusive older man. Here, the girl is much paler, and I’m not quite sure if she’s holding something in her hand, or if it’s been completely edited out. Also interesting to me is that her angle is slightly different – she’s a bit more turned down, making her look a bit more like she’s suffering or hiding, I think. I prefer the treatment in The Iron Witch, but I don’t think this cover is bad, either.

Fractured by Teri Terry is the second in Terry’s dystopian trilogy, published by Penguin in 2013. It’s also another book that features teens’ memories being wiped. The top portion of the cover makes it look pretty SF, I think. I wonder if this is just the ARC cover, since when I “look inside” on Amazon, I get a different (but still pretty generic) cover.

Torn by Cat Clarke is a contemporary realistic book that Kelly really dug about a teenage prank that leads to the death of a girl, and how it affects those involved. The treatment of the photo here is much different: the mirror-image girl looks like she might have just emerged from the pool, her hair soaked with chlorine. Her eyes are a different color, too, and she’s washed out. I prefer this cover – it seems to give off an eerier feel, and the girl looks a bit more suspicious since we can see she’s looking over her shoulder.