Rebel heart

I have read enough YA trilogies at this point to know that the second in the series is what I call a “waiting room book”. The first book sets the story, the second one sees the characters bumble around for a bit and the action just stalls, and the final really finishes the story.
True to form, Rebel Heart's characters are bumbling, but unlike most of the others I have read, this bumbling serves several purposes: first, the characters continue to grow in surprising ways, the action does not stall and ramps up instead, and the storytelling is even BETTER.
This is quite a ride, and that is saying a lot as I LOVED Blood Red Road. The pages could not turn fast enough. Emmie is less annoying, and we have a couple of new players that are original and hold their own.
I loved this book.
I have been pushing Blood Red Road into the hands of as many people as I can, and now I will have Rebel Heart to hand out too.
My only gripe has nothing to do with the story.
I am super pissed about the cover change. SUPER pissed. The original cover of Blood Red Road was perfect, and I would like to have seen what the artist would have come up with for Rebel Heart. Do publishers not understand that something as simple as changing a cover changes the entire feel of a series before a reader even picks it up?
The new covers look like rip offs of Cassandra Clare covers, feature what are clearly models, and feature futuristic looking fonts. None of this makes any sense given the setting and characters of this series.
Why was this done????? Terrible, terrible. It's cheesy and demeaning, and if I were Moira Young, I would be worried that my work would not appeal to a more mature/adult audience. And it is a shame, because this book rocks and deserves a wide readership.
Imagine if Mad Max would have had movie posters like this. Would anyone but tween girls gone to have seen it? Grr. Such a shame.