Happy Tuesday everyone! That means it is time for another Top 5 Tuesday hosted by Shanah @ Bionic Book Worm. The last topic of July is Top 5 worst book covers. Since I judge a book by its cover, majority of the things I have read have pretty great covers. So I am going to get on my TBR shelf on my Goodreads and try to find some horrible covers that have a summary that at least caught my attention.
1) Pam and the Boy She Hates
This looks too generic. Maybe she wasn’t too concerned with it, couldn’t pay for a nice one, or didn’t know how to do one herself. But I read the summary before I seen the cover.
2) Secret Heir
This has a lot of potential to be way prettier than what it is. Again, I have an issue with generic looking things.
3) The Wrath and the Dawn
I know a lot of people probably like this cover but I just don’t. At all. It is too busy for me.
4) The Supervillian and Me
This one isn’t too bad but still has some issues going on. The characters on the front needs some attention.
5) Fire and Bone
The girl throws this off for me. The city background and the title is nice. Not saying she is ugly, just looks too fake.
These covers isn’t even the worst out there but like I said I judge a book by its cover too much. Sorry not sorry. By the way, I definitely need to go through my TBR shelf. What are some covers you dislike?
Really bad covers 😊
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Hahaha no I love the cover of The Wrath and the dawn 😉 Some cover I dislike will be published later 😉
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This is why I haven’t bought The Wrath and the Dawn yet!! 🙈🙈
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I’m glad someone agrees with me! 🤷🏻♀️ Haha.
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OMG what a fun prompt. xD The ones for Pam and the Boy She Hates, and Secret Heir are burning my eyeballs. I do like the Wrath and the Dawn cover, though, but I think the main shade of pink they used hurts the eyes a bit. New blog follower 🙂
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Yess, they aren’t something pleasant to look at. The Wrath and Dawn isn’t the worst but I think it’s all those shapes that throw me off. It hurts my eyes instead of the color! Thank you so much! I followed back! 🖤🖤
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Gosh, the first one is so bad! I definitely judge books by their covers, which is bad, but covers are part of marketing and thus are actually really important. I also judge books by the titles, and I’ve heard some authors don’t even get to chose their titles. My least favorite cover of a book I enjoyed is the original Anna and the French Kiss cover. It looked so cringey and cheesy. Some of my cover judgement comes from the question, “would I want to be caught in public reading this book?” If the answer is yes, the likely hood of buying the book goes down by 50% lol.
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So true. A nice cover is so very important in marketing the part. Yes, a good synopsis is important but so is the cover. And I agree the with the title. If a title sounds intriguing and it has a nice cover then that just makes you want to read the synopsis to see if you would potentially want to read it. Sometimes a cover can be just so simple but yet so pretty.
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OMG these covers are actually so bad 😂I definitley also judge books by their cover, but it’s definitely a habit I’m trying to break. One of my favorite series was the Vampire Academy series, and it has such horrible book covers!
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They are pretty bad. 😂 I am trying to get out of that habit too but I don’t see me making much progress! Haha.
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