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Cover pet peeves

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Paracosm 04/27/19
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Greetings, associates and archenemies! When I'm buying books I always try to find the edition with the best cover. Sometimes the edition available is not as pretty as I expected, but I buy the book anyway. Regarless of that, there are some covers that annoy me more than others.

Before we continue I gonna mention that, because I was the one to take most of these pictures, most of them are in Spanish. I'll leave the English title along side the image.

Cover pet peeves-Greetings, associates and archenemies! When I'm buying books I always try to find the edition with the best

There are two types of covers that really annoy me:

1; The ones that only show body parts on them.

It could be a face, feet, hands, legs or any other thing. I think the ones with a face are more common, specially in fan made stories like in Watppad. Always stay with the same girl's face in the cover. Most of the time they don't even show what's the book about. Besides, they lack creativity.

Some examples:

Cover pet peeves-Greetings, associates and archenemies! When I'm buying books I always try to find the edition with the best
The city of beasts
Cover pet peeves-Greetings, associates and archenemies! When I'm buying books I always try to find the edition with the best
What comes next
Cover pet peeves-Greetings, associates and archenemies! When I'm buying books I always try to find the edition with the best

2; The ones that only show a person doing nothing on the cover

These are even wrost, like at least the previous ones can give some minimun details, but this ones are just person. This kind of covers appear a lot in adult romance novels, like the only thing they can put in the cover is a half naked dude, a pretty woman or a couple kissing. Examples:

Cover pet peeves-Greetings, associates and archenemies! When I'm buying books I always try to find the edition with the best
The Shadow man
Cover pet peeves-Greetings, associates and archenemies! When I'm buying books I always try to find the edition with the best
Cover pet peeves-Greetings, associates and archenemies! When I'm buying books I always try to find the edition with the best
The magician's guild

I don't have a problem with people being on the cover of a book. Just don't make them stand there alone, put other stuff on the cover or just don't make the people the center or attention. Examples:

Cover pet peeves-Greetings, associates and archenemies! When I'm buying books I always try to find the edition with the best
Magnus Chase and Thor's Hammer
Cover pet peeves-Greetings, associates and archenemies! When I'm buying books I always try to find the edition with the best
Harry Potter and the Chambet of Secrets
Cover pet peeves-Greetings, associates and archenemies! When I'm buying books I always try to find the edition with the best

Do these things also annoy you? If not, what does? Let me know in the comments.

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CINDER OH MY GOSH!!!

I love that book :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:

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1 Reply 04/27/19

Here’s some

1. When the color scheme is mainly brown. Especially when there’s brown rocks.

2. When there’s so much in the picture that you can’t really tell what’s going on.

3. When the cover really doesn’t have anything to do with the story.

These are all thing the bobiverse different covers (and official art?) have done. Thankfully for where I am, the ones I got look great.

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