There once was an awesome blogger named Ginger and she decided to create a super fun feature where fellow bloggers would answer fabulous questions via blog posts every Friday. TGIF was born and we all have Miss Ginger at GReads! to thank for that! This week’s question is:
Show Me Your Cover:
What are some of the worst book covers, but hold some of the best stories inside? Don’t be embarrassed, show us your cover!
I had a really hard time with this question! I went through all of my top rated books but as I was doing so, I realized something: I love almost all of their covers! Most people are very particular about covers but that just isn’t me. Sometimes I like people on the covers, sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I like the more artistic look and other times it just doesn’t work for me. After quite a bit of searching and even more nit-picking, I did come up with a few covers I was not a fan of (sort of. I still like most of the covers, just not for that particular book)
Ex-mas (A Love/Hate Story) by Kate Brian
It’s been a while since I’ve read this one but I remember finding it totally adorable! The cover is cute enough but it also has a little too much cheesiness.
Timeless by Alexandra Monir
Don’t get me wrong, this cover is very pretty HOWEVER I am not a giant fan of such a specific image of the main character. I had someone all dreamed up in my head and this cover made it a little hard to let my imagination run free.
Trade Secrets by Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout
My reasons for not liking this cover are very similar to the above one. I had the character all figured out in my head but then when you go and look at the cover it’s just not quite the same. This book is so full of quirkiness, adorableness, and music! There should be a guitar on the cover (just saying!)
Return To Paradise by Simone Elkeles
Are these real people or is that a drawing? Isn’t this the same two people on another YA book even though the other one has a different background? Why doesn’t this cover match the edginess of the first book’s cover? All these questions explain why I do not like this cover.
Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith
Holy freaking creep-fest, Batman! I had nightmares for weeks and weeks after looking at this book. The story inside is a bit scary yes, but I do not need to pee my pants every time I look at the book!
Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
This cover also creeped me out like no other. When my best friend suggested this as our next book club read, I almost smacked her. The story is just so great and really not all that creepy so I really wish the cover didn’t portray that! I love that Ransom used all these old, freaky photos throughout the whole book but using one on the cover may scare readers away, ones who would have loved the book!
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I must admit that I haven’t read any of these yet, but I actually like the Peculiar Children cover–very creepy!
Lockdown and Miss Peregrine’s are definitely creepy covers! I agree with the characters on the front, sometimes what I think is totally different than what they decided to pout on the front, I think they should just let us try to decide and imagine what they look like instead of forcing it so much.
Return to Paradise is a horrible cover, and sadly it doesn’t get much better past that either :( I was really disappointed in that book over all.
Return To Paradise is horrible not to mention I saw the same cover for another book. Simone Elkeles is a wildly popular YA writer, come on, why couldn’t they have rocked a better cover than that?
Wow…Lockdown is freaking me out just in that little pic. I agree about Return to Paradise lacking the drama of the first book’s cover.
Jennifer @ Feminist Fairy Tale Reviews
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good choices. i agree that they shouldn’t put people on the covers, it messes up your reading. especially if they don’t exactly match how the author described them. very frustrating. i had an issue with that for The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.
Great list! ~dixie
I agree on the cover character not looking like the one in my head!! Jennifer Echols newer one, mind drawing a blank…..Oh, the one that I want was like that for me. I had one image and it was another and it didn’t match.
The cover for Miss Peregrine’s is really freaky, haha. It almost makes me afraid to pick it up!