Maybe you’ve noticed an edgy new trend at the bookstore.

Stroll through the fantasy, romance or YA sections, look at some of the more popular titles, and you’ll start to see it: Novels not only featuring eye-catching cover illustrations – but also colorful images and richly printed designs running along the outer edges of the book’s pages.

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You’ll find this treatment on editions of Brigid Kemmerer’s “Warrior, Princess, Assassin” ; I.V. Marie’s “Immortal Consequences” ; Michelle Jabès Corpora’s “His Face Is the Sun (Throne of Khetara, 1)” and Julia and Brad Riew’s “The Last Tiger” – and even Shelby Van Pelt’s bestselling “Remarkably Bright Creatures.”

“It’s huge in the YA space,” sa

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