Remember that double (and triple and quadruple and...) take that Kelly posted awhile ago? I couldn't help thinking of that when I spotted this cover while perusing my library's young adult fiction collection today.
Dead Connection by Charlie Price was published in 2006 by Roaring Brook Press. It's a mystery involving a teen who has the ability to converse with the dead when he's near them in the cemetery - hence the somewhat creepy perspective of this cover.
The cover on the ARC of Susan Vaught's Going Underground has a similar image with the perspective reversed. Vaught's book tackles a very current issue: sexting. When Del was 14, a teacher confiscated his phone and found revealing photos of his girlfriend. As a result, he's now a felon and the only work he can find is as a gravedigger. I snagged a copy of this one at TLA this year. It's due to be released in September by Bloomsbury.
Having not read either of these, I can't really say who does it better. I like the creep factor of the first where it appears as if the reader is inside the grave - it seems to match the subject matter of the book very well. While both covers show a similar image, I think they're still different enough to suit their respective books well.
OK, so both of these are pretty darn creepy but they're also both oddly inviting. Weird!
ReplyDeleteI like that one is from the hole looking up and one is from the earth looking down.
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