I wondered, seeing the cover for The Sleepover, if it was inspired by Adrian McKinty’s new best-seller, The Chain. or an example of the hive mind at work. The chains in McKinty’s book have nothing to do with literal chains, of course, and I didn’t warm to that book’s cover (though the book is great).
Then I saw this pairing. Though the new Through a Daughter’s Eyes is apparently nothing at all like Eimear McBride’s eye-opening The Lesser Bohemians, it sure conjures it. Cover copy for the latter says it “glows with the eddies and anxieties of growing up, and the transformative intensity of a powerful new love.” And lots of sex.
Interesting that book covers can be similar in the same way as plots. Ever read two books with such similar themes? This summer I read two very different books about people in comas, both coincidentally, hit by vehicles on a bridge in London!
That happens a lot with all the new crime and thriller I read! I get pretty tired of dismembered young women!