Top Ten Cover Trends I Like/Dislike
FAVORITE TRENDS
5. Backlit Photos
When done well, these covers can be so mystical and enchanting.
4. Illustrated/Graphic Design Awesomeness
I love that YA cover trends are headed in this direction.
3. Basic Black Backgrounds
Let's be honest, I'm just a sucker for black covers.
Less is almost always more when it comes to book covers, in my opinion.
You go, Sarah J. Coleman. You go.
LEAST FAVORITE TRENDS
Booooooooooooooaring.
4. Gender-based Cover Marketing
Naive and disrespectful.
What about you? What cover trends do you like and dislike?
The original cover designs for Sisters Red and Sweetly were very cool! Too bad they changed them as they went on with the series.
ReplyDeleteAlso, yes to the ballgown-where-there-are-no-ballgowns thing. What is *up* with that?? And the whitewashing just plain sucks :(
The original Sisters Red cover is one of my favorites of all time and I am SO SAD that they changed it!! I totally concur on the white washing. Hate it!
DeleteLove that you mentioned Shadow and Bone too! Seriously one of the best covers out there! and I really like the backlit photos trend! Let's hope it stays because those covers are so pretty!
ReplyDeleteOh I adore the cover to Bardugo's Grisha series!! I'm pretty picky about covers with photographs on them, but I do love some of those backlit covers. Glad you agree!
DeleteA Game of Thrones really threw me - I just don't even get it. Is that real?? And whitewashing is just incredibly frustrating - I wish I would have said this explicitly in my post (instead I just said that I hate it when the cover model doesn't match the description of the character in the book!).
ReplyDeleteNicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
Agreed on the white washing. It really is beyond ridiculous and needs to stop. The Game Of Thrones covers are taken from Maureen Johnson's cover flip challenge. Did you see that article? It's definitely worth checking out! Here's the link:
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I hate the covers of the A Song of Ice and Fire books. It's like they just threw something related to epic fantasy on the cover not at all concerned whether or not it was connected with the story! I also agree about white-washing and pretty dresses when the book has nothing to do with dresses. It's all pandering!
ReplyDeleteBut I do agree about backlighting and illustrated covers. I absolutely love the cover of Sister's Red.
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Cassi @ My Thoughts Literally
I definitely agree, the game of thrones covers could have been so much better, and that's from someone who likes simplicity!!
DeleteGreat picks. The back lit covers are all really great, I especially love the We Were Liars cover. I have to admit to not really liking large faces on my covers because they usually fall into the done badly category. I am fed up of covers just being girls in pretty dresses, it's so overused! I am also not a fan of them beheading cover models.
ReplyDeleteGlad we agree on so many points! The large faces on the cover just kind of make me nervous. It's like the book cover is judging ME for reading it, instead of the other way around.
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