Comments on Beautiful Covers Hiding Awful Books - page 1

Ha Bry, I had a feeling you were gonna make this list soon.

I am happy to say that I haven't read most of these. But I did **start** Fallen and Rumors... drawn in by the lovely lure of their covers... and tossed them aside pretty early on. But being drawn in by the covers hasn't always turned out so badly for me. I was drawn to by the cover, and holy crap I loved that book.

Shannon, we have to spread the word! We must try to protect others from the prettiness!

Katyana, I have Sunshine on my shelf right now waiting to be read! Glad to hear it's great!

I loved Sunshine too! It's one of those books that people either seem to love or hate - I for one was only upset that she will never write a sequel.

I like that cover that you posted better than the recent reprint too:



I have this one:

Bry wrote: "Shannon, we have to spread the word! We must try to protect others from the prettiness!"

Lol, I actually haven't read the ones that are up there that you posted. Most of them I own too ...

I'm tempted to add Brightly Woven to this list as it has a beautiful cover but apparently I'm in the minority about that one.

Kat wrote: "I'm tempted to add Brightly Woven to this list as it has a beautiful cover but apparently I'm in the minority about that one"

That's one that I really wanted to read. But go ahead and add it! I added some that I think some people liked a lot more than I did. Who cares? It's your opinion.

Oh yey!

Oh and I'm reading Sunshine at the moment and really enjoying it!

Would I be wildly in the minority if I voted to add Fragile Eternity to the list? It is a pretty cover...



... but it killed the Wicked Lovely series for me. By the end, I loathed - literally - all the characters. I can't read a book when I find myself chanting "Die, die, die" while reading about the protagonists.

But Sunshine was great. And I agree, I am sad there won't be a sequel. Ah well.

mmm, i wonder why twilight is not on this list.

Haven't read Fragile Eternity, but I just don't get where the chicks forehead is! LOL!

Oh nooooo, is Wondrous Strange pretty blah? I just picked that one up.

It's cover is plain, but if you are looking for a fun faery book, this one is pretty awesome imo:

I haven't read Fragile Eternity, but then, it's your opinion!

And honestly, I didn't put Twilight on the list because, 1, I haven't read it, and 2, I don't think the cover is beautiful.

Bry wrote: "Haven't read Fragile Eternity, but I just don't get where the chicks forehead is! LOL!"

This is the list for you Bry, lol.

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/35...

yah, i don't think the covers beautiful either but I've heard a lot of other people say it is, so whatever. :P

Shannon wrote: "Bry wrote: "Haven't read Fragile Eternity, but I just don't get where the chicks forehead is! LOL!"

This is the list for you Bry, lol.

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/35......"

LOL! I have voted on that list before! It wasn't until I saw that list that I realized just HOW MANY books have covers like that!

Kimathy wrote: "yah, i don't think the covers beautiful either but I've heard a lot of other people say it is, so whatever. :P"

Well, the people that think it has a beautiful cover probably think it's a good book too, so that would be a whole different list.

Bry, I haven’t read none of the above. Yey for me I guess :) Although I heard great things about the summoning (going to read it for this month challenge) and Graceling. Will see :)

I liked Graceling. And I will read anything by Kelley Armstrong. (The Summoning was not spectacular, but it is YA. Her Men of the otherworld series is great).

AH wrote: "I liked Graceling. And I will read anything by Kelley Armstrong. (The Summoning was not spectacular, but it is YA. Her Men of the otherworld series is great)."

I usually like me some Kelley Armstrong, but I thought she dumbed down her YA series. I know she can write much better than that & just cause your marketing for teens doesn't mean you have to feed them crap. They're not stupid(for the most part). I feel the same way about Kim Armstrong's YA series. Some authors just can't make a great transition from PNR/UF to YA. I liked Gena Showalter's debut YA series though so maybe there's hope.

the ulies...series
by Scott Westerfeld...was awesome i couldnt but those books down there never a dule moment

♠LethalLovely~HBBIC♠ wrote: "AH wrote: "I liked Graceling. And I will read anything by Kelley Armstrong. (The Summoning was not spectacular, but it is YA. Her Men of the otherworld series is great)."

I usually like me some ..."

i agree

Katyana wrote: "Oh nooooo, is Wondrous Strange pretty blah? I just picked that one up.

It's cover is plain, but if you are looking for a fun faery book, this one is pretty awesome imo:

[bookcover:Bones of Faeri..."

i loved the books myself im waiting for wounderous strange 3 ...1211! enjoy!

Vered wrote: "Bry, I haven’t read none of the above. Yey for me I guess :) Although I heard great things about the summoning (going to read it for this month challenge) and Graceling. Will see :)"

I haven't read the Summoning series, but I really enjoyed Graceling (4 stars) and have had the sequel Fire on my shelves waiting to be read for months.

Didn't like Fire as much as Graceling, but I think I am in the minority.

Swoon by Nina Malkin & Hush, Hush are probs the two biggest examples of me judging a book by their awesome covers/blurbs, only to reel back in horror at the writing... Eugh. :L

I loved Shiver, and Brightly Woven, but HATED The Summoning with a passion. I just can't connect with Armstrong's stories, she leaves me cold every time.

But I completely agree on the Wicked Lovely front - the first two were pretty good, but the latest books have made me hate everything about the series - it's all so doom and gloom. Honestly, I'm expecting a meteor to hit them all and wipe out man and fey kind in the last one, it's that depressing...

I haven't read the latest book in the Wicked Lovely series yet (is still being ordered at the library) but I do agree that Fragile Eternity was crap. I hate what they did to Seth & I've never liked that whole Aislinn/Seth/Keenan love triangle.

AH, it's ok that you didn't like Fire. It's about what all of us thought were crap books hidden by beautiful covers. You don't have to follow the crowd.

a lot of these books are REALLY great

Kat wrote: "I'm tempted to add Brightly Woven to this list as it has a beautiful cover but apparently I'm in the minority about that one.

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I say, if you thought the book was awful, add it. Like Shannon said, it's your opinion. And I think it has a beautiful cover (but I liked this book, but not because it's well written, because it's not. I NEED to write a review to explain why I like this book but I'm not feeling particularly motivated to do so).

I just added Wings by April Lynn Pike. And yeah, I didn't finish reading it. Heck, I couldn't get past the first few pages. The dialogue was just too stupid.

Penny wrote: "Kat wrote: "I'm tempted to add Brightly Woven to this list as it has a beautiful cover but apparently I'm in the minority about that one.

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I say, if you thought the book was awful, add it. Like Shannon said, it's your opinion. And I think it has a beautiful cover (but I liked this book, but not because it's well written, because it's not. I NEED to write a review to explain why I like this book but I'm not feeling particularly motivated to do so). "

I think it has a beautiful cover too, but if the insides don't match then it belongs on the list! You're also not the only one I've heard say it's not good.

Penny, I could actually understand why you liked it! I thought Braken showed a lot of potential as a story teller but the writing really got to me.

Kat wrote: "I'm tempted to add Brightly Woven to this list as it has a beautiful cover but apparently I'm in the minority about that one.

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I added BRIGHTLY WOVEN
:P

It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either. And hmm, maybe I shouldn't have added it, because I actually HATE the cover design - that girl on the front looks weird

That cover actually really reminds me of Tori Amos's CD, From the Choirgirl Hotel:



The singles from that CD all had similar artwork as well:



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Makes me wonder if the designer for the book is a Tori fan.

I never made the connection but, yeah, the girl on the cover looks a little like Tori.

You know, I'm not a huge fan of lily-white skin and red hair, but I think the girl on the cover is pretty in an unusual way. She has piercing blue eyes and that really beautiful shade of red hair, the sort that hardly anyone is lucky enough to have naturally. Also, I think the cover is just artsy looking. *shrugs*

But yeah, it wasn't written well. So I don't blame others for not liking it.

I meant the smooshed face against the glass in profile reminded me of that CD cover art. Not so much her actual looks.

It does look like the Amos cover art! It's like they are being smothered with a pillow or something. LOL! Haven't read Brightly Woven but haven't heard to many great things about it either.

I had a friend tell me she loved it, but she also liked a couple of teen books I despised. I don't think I'll buy Brightly Woven, but I might get it from the library.

Seriously, get it from the library.

im seriously surprised at some of the books listed...b/c i only have a problem wit a few up above from the books ive read. surprised to see hush hush all the way at the top b/c i actually thought that book was really good.

but wings was horrible. to me its like a book u would read to a 5 year old. i couldnt finish it.

hush hush was one of the reasons I actually started this poll Mariya! LOL! Between it, Fallen, and Bleeding Violet I just couldn't take being lied to anymore by the pretty cover art! :D

Bry wrote: "hush hush was one of the reasons I actually started this poll Mariya! LOL! Between it, Fallen, and Bleeding Violet I just couldn't take being lied to anymore by the pretty cover art! :D"

Are there any on the list that you're glad people added because you were thinking about reading them and now you're not?

Shannon wrote: Are there any on the list that you're glad people added because you were thinking about reading them and now you're not?

The Luxe series for sure, and maybe the Melissa Marr books and Libba Bray books. But still on the fence about those.

I liked Wicked Lovely, although some people say the series suffers as you go. The other two I still want to try though.

I liked Wicked Lovely, but the series collapsed for me in book 3 (Fragile Eternity). Book 2 was alright, but it was really its own thing - sort of a spin-off, following some of the secondary characters from the first book.

And I also liked A Great and Terrible Beauty - I thought it made a good start to a potentially solid series - but book 2 (Rebel Angels) ended up being so bad (really convoluted, iirc) that I never bothered to pick up book 3 (The Sweet Far Thing). Alas.

I loved the Gemma Doyle series up until the last one. I've got about 100 pages left & don't have the courage to read the rest since I found out a much loved character died from reading the last page or so. Shannon, stop looking at me like that.

Dont read the last page!!!!!

*Runs from Bry* I do NOT want to be at the receiving end of your pimp hand ROFL.

That's run! Live in fear!

♠LethalLovely~HBBIC♠ wrote: "Shannon, stop looking at me like that. "