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Book Covers - The Good, The Bad and The WTF?
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I've read all of these within the past few weeks.
I also remember seeing this one :
I know there's a lot more, but here's another well-known one.
Stacia ~ far from home wrote: "I know there's a lot more, but here's another well-known one."Oops, I forgot I had read that!
Jenny wrote: "I don't mind some of these trends. I have a thing for basically anything that is floaty: fabrics blowing in wind, smoky looking things, things suspended in liquid."What Jenny really means to say is "Oooh shiny...*dazed look*" Seriously :P
I like this one, and the summary sounds good too!
Hillary wrote: "What Jenny really means to say is "Oooh shiny...*dazed look*" seriously :P"I'm like a magpie.
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Or a raccoon. There was a scene in (I think?)
where Billy put shiny tin in a hole in the ground with nails sticking around the edge of the opening. I guess the point was that the raccoon could fit its hand into the hole to pick up the tin, but once it made a fist, couldn't pull the hand (paw?) back out. Supposedly, the lure of the tin was enough to keep the critter trapped.
Yep, that was in that book. Where the Red Fern Grows is one of my childhood favorites. I've read it hundreds of times too.And it's true. My Grandpa grew up in Tennessee and he said that Racoons would find anything silver and would coat their burrows in them.
That book made me cry so hard as a child.
I still bawl my eyes out when I read it at 32, I should be sheepish about that but I'm not, LOL! That book is friggin sad!
I hated the movie version. It was so far off from the book. There was actually a b-movie version made a few years back starring Dave Matthews (I know...him as an actor seems odd) and I caught it on the Netflix queue. It wasn't the greatest movie I'd seen, but followed the book story much better than the original movie.
I've never watched either movie, though I did hear about the Dave Matthews one. He played the dad, I think.
Loved that book. I read it when I was younger and cried my eyes out.
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I was not a fan of the book Ruined, but I do love this author's book covers. Although, I do think they could have left the girl off the cover of Dark Souls and it would have looked even better. When I got Ruined from the library, I remember staring at the cover for a while. The picture doesn't do it justice. It has a lot of wonderful shades of moss green and purple.
(wonder if this one is any good...)
I also like these covers because the titles look like they're part of a wrought iron gate and that makes it part enchanting and part creeptastic. It makes me want to hang out in the French Quarter or ride in a horse-drawn buggy or go on a haunted tour or something.
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Ruined took place in New Orleans. I wonder if someone native to the area such as yourself would like the book more than I did. I sort of felt a disconnect with everything that was going on, but I will say that it had to do more with the plot (and I really hated the "new girl hooks the popular guy" spin for this particular story) than the actual setting. However, I did wonder for a moment that if I had a familiarity with the setting, there's a chance I might have found myself more invested?Either that, or it could go the other way and you'd hate the book because the author didn't get it right!
There aren't very many people who get it right. And most of the ones who do are chefs writing cookbooks.
I like this cover. It's different. Kinda moody. Interesting perspective. Watercolor thing going on with the sky.
Stacia ~ Waiting in Vain wrote: "Ruined took place in New Orleans. I wonder if someone native to the area such as yourself would like the book more than I did. I sort of felt a disconnect with everything that was going on, but I w..."I may have to check it out since I am from Louisiana and was born not far from NOLA. Anne Rice always got it right. ;)
does anyone else hate the VA covers?
why did she put such good books behind such stupid covers?
the first one looks like roses (im assuming its rose) shoulder is melding into her face
why did she put such good books behind such stupid covers?
the first one looks like roses (im assuming its rose) shoulder is melding into her face
Authors don't usually have any say whatsoever about their covers.
I know but still I would have put up a fight they are horrible haha
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All of Mead's series have crappy covers for the most part. There are only a few books total out of all of her books that look alright. You'd think by now she'd be famous enough to get some decent covers. Her publishers need to hook her up.In fact, check out page 1 of this topic near the bottom. We had a little bit of a bitch fest about it. :)
I know! if other authours like dia reeves can get covers that llok like this :
how can she not
how can she not
Penguin has a lot of meh or ugly covers, I've noticed. Maybe their marketing team needs to be smacked around a bit. Or maybe they need to hire some people away from HarperCollins.
Who knows. I don't mind the newest Bloodlines cover design, but Sydney always looks constipated. I know you have no idea who I'm talking about since Sydney doesn't show up until book 4 of VA, but yeah. I think Meg/Bunny said she had lizard face or something, heh.
I just noticed that you posted the cover for For Darkness Shows the Stars and I'm dying to get that thing. Persuasion retelling? Fuck yeah. Give me some Sci-Fi Austen, man. DO IT. So excited.
Me too! Sci-Fi Austen - could be a complete win or a complete loss. Hopefully the first.
Wendy F wrote: "Funny the touched cover feels similar to the a cover, which I loved.I read "Warm Bodies" a few months back. It was such a good book. A zombie book but not your typical zombie book. It actually made me feel FOR the walking dead. I love when the cover and book are both awesome together.
Louise wrote: "damn those covers are gorgeous! I like them better than all the others til now. They are more real"Same here. I had no idea there were going to be more. It just seemed like it'd make a good trilogy judging from the covers and titles. I haven't read this series, yet, though.
Something else I noticed; Different book series where their covers all resemble each other. Like the books from Lauren Kate's "Fallen" series remind me more than a little bit of Sophia Sharp's "Dream Realms" books. I included them here to compare, etc. I really liked the first two "Fallen" covers but not the third. The placement of the color. The sky/clouds behind the girl is all wrong, especially when combined with the first two covers. Dream Realms Trilogy (First Two)
"Fallen" Books (First Three)
Except for "Destined" and "Passion" it looks like they're all wearing the same dress! Or, if not, very similar dresses with the layered ruffled skirt and all. lol.
Speaking of book covers check this out! Quite interesting! A video showing a behind-the-scenes look at a book cover photo shoot. (for the book "Splendour" the final book in the Lux series by Anna Godbersen).: Splendour Book Cover Photo Shoot
Ami, thanks for sharing. :)This book cover sort of scares me...
hahahahaha, Oh nooooooooo! Sunset and a creature and hands in the air and a mouth in the sky and a saguaro!!!!!!!!!
Cleaning out my tbr list and just took this one off because it looks like the only people I know who've read it didn't like the book, but man...I really loved this cover.
Jenny wrote: "hahahahaha, Oh nooooooooo! Sunset and a creature and hands in the air and a mouth in the sky and a saguaro!!!!!!!!!"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh man!
These are two covers with the same picture...they are just cropped differently:
.The funny thing is that I get the impression that I saw a third cover with the same dude.
You would think that Nalini Singh is doing well enough that they wouldn't have to use stock art for her covers?
I've grown really weary of the "girl standing in elegant fancy dress somewhere in nature" covers. They are all starting to look the same to me.
Cassi, yeah, those are starting to blend together...but I save my ire for the dreadful covers that are whitewashed, and those that present young women with their faces cropped (or worse), so that the reader doesn't even see them as a whole person, but as a pair of breasts. :(The re-issue of Cindy Pon's book
is suffering from that - the original cover showed a young Asian woman in a position which reads as powerful. The reissue apparently has a pair of breasts belonging to a *white girl*. WTF?The sequel to Silver Phoenix suffers from it, as well
. Makes me crazy.And I had one cover come across my desk in a distributor email which just...I don't care how good the story is, I'm not putting that book in our order queue.
Don't Expect Magic's cover completely dehumanizes the young woman on the cover and relegates her to an 'upskirt' shot. This is a friggin' YA book! I swear, I had a 'flames, on the side of my face' response to it.
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Cassi aka Snow White wrote: "I've grown really weary of the "girl standing in elegant fancy dress somewhere in nature" covers. They are all starting to look the same to me."I laughed because we actually had this conversation earlier in the topic. Those types of books are beautiful, but really do start to blend together.
Slmstanley, I was in the bookstore today and saw the cover for Don't Expect Magic. For some reason, I thought it was absolutely adorable. The quirky stockings make it seem less trashy/more covered up to me.
D.G. ~Shameless Hussy~ wrote: "You would think that Nalini Singh is doing well enough that they wouldn't have to use stock art for her covers? ..."
Authors like Richelle Mead and Kelley Armstrong, who have sold millions of books still get stuck with crappy stock covers too, while new and upcoming authors get some of the best covers. It's so backward to me! I know that publishing companies might want to put their best foot forward with new authors, but at the same time...respect the ones who are making you the money too, right?
Similar stock covers are so common that GR has listopia lists for lookalikes.
I have both of these books, hah.
I guess it's obvious I didn't read the whole topic. The Torment, etc pics reminded me of my growing distaste. They seem to just recycle the same YA covers over and over again which is just...ugh.
I don't expect people to have to read pages of a long topic, I just thought it was amusing because we had touched on this subject not too long ago and you were thinking the same thing!Like the covers as a concept because they're beautiful, but I hate that they're overdone, if that makes sense.
I'm sick of the YA covers with girls in beautiful dresses. I actually find myself brushing those off now when I see them.
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ack, nm. ignore.
This one is giving me a Game of Thrones vibe.
I like the simplicity of this cover and how it's very monotone.
This one makes me say WTF?????
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