♥!The Young Adult Book Club!♥ discussion

What are some of your favorite book covers?

Least favorite covers?

Have you ever bought a book based off the cover alone?

Was there a book with a cover you hated but loved the book anyway?

What do you think of cover changes mid-series?




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I bought almost completely based off the fact that the cover is gorgeous! Although I still haven't read it :-/

I did judge the Vampire Academy book by their covers. I thought they looked really cheesy until I kept hearing great things about them. I gave them a try and I loved them!

I wanted to read The Selection based off the cover and I didn't really like it. I also read As I Wake based off the cover and didn't like it either :-/

I absolutely hate mid-series cover changes because if I already bought the book I get so made that they won't match!

The first thing that comes to mind is and
I mean, just look at them! Shmexy :)
I bought it based on its cover and it turned out great for me :)

Now, hate's a pretty strong word. But I was pretty put off by this cover:
. I got it as an e-book. It's just meh. What is he doing? He's just standing there staring ominously into the camera. ... I repeat, meh

And yes, changing the covers mid-series always annoys me. Case and point: Isla and the Happily Ever After. This is coming out soon and I've got the first two books and they changed the whole series so now it won't match dangit!
Anna/Lola/Isla:

I did read Everneath. It was... okay, I guess. Original plot, interesting characters, and I actually liked Cole. And, Vampire Academy is definitely my favorite series. Didn't read The Selection, though.

YUCK!!!!! I HATE the new covers for Anna/Lola/Isla

So plain!!!!!!

The Bite Before Christmas I hate this one, even though I love part Jeaniene Frost. It's good to read (if you're Night Huntress fan).
Other book cover I hate are The Demon Trapper's Daughter, Grave Witch, Glass Houses, Moon Called, and $hitload of others.
Though, all these books are good to read. I enjoyed them all, especially Grave Witch.

Not going to lie, I bought , , and all based on their cover(s) alone. And now Hate List and Audrey, Wait! are two of my all-time-favorite-stand-alone-book(s) ever and Vampire Academy is in my top 5 favorite book series.

I bought and based on their covers and they were both AMAZING!!

On the other hand, had a sort-of beautiful cover and I absolutely abhorred it :( had a beautiful cover, and I hated that book too.

didn't have a great cover or anything, but the book was actually pretty good. Same with and . I guess it mostly happens with the classics :/

Changing covers mid-series is horrible 'cause it doesn't look like it belongs to the series that it DOES belong to. For example:
and AND ALSO , , , and then...

Whether or not it works out for me though, I will always choose books based on their covers...it's a habit. I mean...when you check out books at the library, it's their covers that grab your attention, right?

well i only can think in this!!!!!!!

I absolutely loved the cover of but i still cant finish reading it. I didnt really like the book covers of (i dont like the girl on them) but i LOVED the books. I have bought because the color is my favorite but it turned out really great for me.

Love the book covers and the story! Julie Kagawa is such a lucky author to get such wonderful covers!
I didn't really like the books, but its not that I hate them either. However, the covers look really good! (until they changed it ofc)..
Love this cover! The series' other covers are okay, but I really like this one!
Max!! <3
I didn't particularly like the first cover but WTF is that new cover!!
I bought the whole Fallen series in hardcover solely because I love the covers. Seriously, the books were badly written (for me) and I can't read any of the books for more than 4 hours at a time.
Got this when I was still new to reading and I remember thinking that the first part was slow. The ending was fast-paced, however it ended too abruptly. :C Really like the cover though!
Ugh where do I start? I bought this book along with Ink Exchange because the covers are so amazing! Also the texture of the books were finee. But omg the story...so screwed up! I can't bring myself to like the story. Ever.
Great background for the cover, but I don't like the model. Still I ended up really liking the story!

Mid-series cover changes should be banned.

I always look first at books that have a nice cover, always !!!

Halo, Hush Hush, and Starcrossed have gorgeous covers!

Clary wrote: "well i only can think in this!!!!!!! "

I love Cassandra Clare, when I first read the Infernal Devices I chose it because of the cover. This is the number one series on my book list. Another is The Mortal Instruments. LOVE LOVE LOOOOVE!

I always look at the covers! I chose The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer because of the cover. And I am glad that I did. GREAT BOOK!

I pick up books based on the cover's appeal, however, I won't buy a book solely based on the cover. I have way too many books to read and not enough time, so I'm super selective. Plus, there's just categories of books I won't read no matter how beautiful or hot a cover is.

My favourite book cover is The divers by Libba Bray.
I hate the cover for The Time of my Life by Cecelia Ahern, but enjoyed the book.
I mostly get a book based on the cover, unless I have heard really good things about it.

If an author I love has a new book out, I'll buy it because I love the author but if I'm in "browse" mode, I'm usually attracted to a book based on (i) cover first (ii) then story and finally (iii) title.

When I had originally commissioned the cover for my book TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE, I gave the company a short synopsis of the book and they then prepared the cover. I absolutely hated it!! It seemed more appropriate for a video game like Grand Theft Auto than Hollywood. When I told the company that, I also sent them a few pictures to give them a visual sense of where I wanted them to go with my cover and I fully expected them to simply "rework" the old one.

Instead what I got was a brand new cover that totally combined all of the elements I was looking for. I was thrilled because the cover combined the major elements of the story: an attractive young woman, a necklace, a dead body on the road and a Hollywood street. From my viewpoint as an author, I thought it was perfect. As a reader, it also appealed to me. What do you think?

A lot of paranormal romance has excellent covers but terrible books...

But sometimes the books are good...


I do judge books by their cover... For example I wouldn't read this
but read it when I saw this cover . It turned out pretty disappointing though. I normally will pick books off a shelf based on spine, blurb then cover.

On goodreads the default cover is normally US, yet in Australia we get UK or Australian covers which can sometimes be completely different.

"What do you think of cover changes mid-series?"

If I'm only borrowing the books from the library, I don't mind at all. But when I'm actually buying and collecting the books in a series, cover changes become my pet peeve. I go out of my way to make sure they all match.

No book covers come to mind for being beautiful or ugly, but I do remember my old school librarian commenting that was ugly looking and that she'd rather recommend the book my friend was reading, which had a nicer cover.

How is this for a book cover. Do to its controversial message, I was forced to have it re-vamped (yes, that's a play on words). Thoughts and comments.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008...

I always loved the original Twilight Cover with the apple. I picked that book up for its cover before it ever became popular.

It's funny that this topic is coming up right now, because I'm trying to decide on which cover to use for the book I wrote, which is a YA fantasy called into the dark. I'm having a vote on my blog about which cover I should choose, and I'd love to know which one you think I should pick. If you're interested, you can check it out here. http://conjurors.wordpress.com

Jeff- I don't like your cover. I'm not sure what your book is all about, but it's terrifying and I really dislike scary covers. However it was very effective in showing me that the book is about a vampire and the Nazis.

Kristen- I voted on your blog ^_^ Option B seems a little too historic, and option C just doesn't work out. Option A is neat, simple, and nice to look at. Although I suggest font style and color change because it does make the book cover look too simple. It would also be great to add a tagline so that people who see it won't just say, "oh that's sci-fi" or anything like that.

Pamela wrote: "Jeff- I don't like your cover. I'm not sure what your book is all about, but it's terrifying and I really dislike scary covers. However it was very effective in showing me that the book is about a ..."

Good morning Pamela, Didn't mean to scare you. The book follows the exact history of WWII from Sept 1, 1939 to June 22nd 1941. The Germans invade Poland, then the SS units start rounding up and shipping off those they deem undesirable. What they don't realize is they are stealing the food supply of two warring vampire clans. Will the clans continue to fight among themselves, or will they unite and take on an opponent more evil than themselves: The Third Reich? That's it in a nutshell.This is the new cover

Oh! That's way better than the first, although I really don't like all the blood pouring from the vampires' teeth. It might be interesting to read. ;) Are the vampires bad? Because I grew up loving them lolol (#Twilight)

Pamela wrote: "Oh! That's way better than the first, although I really don't like all the blood pouring from the vampires' teeth. It might be interesting to read. ;) Are the vampires bad? Because I grew up loving..."

They are a mix. One clan, the Romanovs is very warlike and barbaric. They are always trying to keep the upper hand in all ventures. The Boirarksy clan is much more reserved and cautious. They are the thinkers. The female vampires are very strong-willed and driven. Svetlana Romanov (the original cover) is a very conniving, deceitful woman trying to wrestle control of the clan from her overbearing husband, Nikoli. Think of this as a very intense "Dark Shadows" soap opera. Some of the vampires (Nikoli) you will hate. I know I did when I wrote him. Others, are much more likable. But in the end, they are fighting a force more evil than they have encountered over their centuries of existence. Is the book violent in places? Yes. Is there a small love story embedded? Yes. Nicole and Dmitri are chosen to "meld" the clans.

Okay, back on point. Are the vampires bad? I'll leave that up to the readers. Since they are taking on the Third Reich, the answer would have to be yes.

Nicole and Dmitri are vampires? :-)

Pamela wrote: "Nicole and Dmitri are vampires? :-)"

Yes.

I admit I have bought books based on the cover before. Some book covers I love:

Obsidian! <3

Shattered Souls and Matched are great covers!!!

Favorite book covers/books I bought based off the cover alone:


Can't help it, they all caught my eye. NO REGRETS WITH TFIOS. The first two were okay.

I didn't quite like the covers of Vampire Academy and I thought, ugh a dark book again about vampires and stuff but then my friend persuaded me to read it... and I liked it. =))


AND I think the Matched trilogy covers are awesome! As well as the trilogy itself :D

I bought the Infernal Devices books based off of the covers, I just couldn't pass them up. Good thing I loved them!

I love the Infernal Devices also. I am in love with JEM!

I'm the type of person that does pick a book by its cover and most of the time the books that have a pretty epic cover are actually really good and become my favorite
For example:

These are my favorite so far and they have good story too :D

I have lots of favourites, but a book I came across recently is
Inheritance by Lisa Forrest. I was surprised that the book didn't have a profile on Goodreads with the synopsis and so on, so I made one for it and I would ask that any Goodreads librarians would look through and edit anything I might of missed out on. It was published by HarperCollins Australia and it doesn't sound that bad. Thanks, Daniel :)

I am the worst for buying a book based on it's book cover (and then after the shiny cover wears off after a few seconds I read the summary! lol)

My favourite book covers so far are:

I love the water effect and it looks sharp and professionally done.


The black, white and grey really make it stands out and I love the black rose.


Well it's not my favourite but I'm a big fan of Manga and Anime!


Simple but shows you that Mistress V means business!


I always feel bad when I look at book covers and think, 'did you really think that would attract readers?' and I am rarely that harsh but I have found two that I thought exactly that when I saw them.

My worst book covers are:

This is my personal opinion because I did like the story but the cover is so boring and the title does not exactly stand out.


I saw this book in one of the YA lists (not sure it is though) and the problem I had with this cover was the title was so small and the background image was so boring (again just my opinion).

When i look for new books to read i try so hard to not look at the cover cause sometimes it makes me not want to read it. I read for the cover, and i hated the book. It was a chore to get through that book but i was thinking it has such great potential. So all the ones i really do like : , , , , ,
, ...
I Don't really have books with covers i don't like, but i forsure dont like covers that have weird looking people on them looking silly. Kinda like Switched but i have a different version of the cover, liked the book but i almost didn't get it cause of the cover.

I bought The Edge of Never because of the cover.. and it turned out to be like the best book ever!

Momof3 wrote: "I bought The Edge of Never because of the cover.. and it turned out to be like the best book ever!"
yeah, this one is really beautiful. i bought it too but haven't read it yet.

the ''fairest of them all'' bookcover i have ever seen is

i bought it becouse of the cover. and it's sequels too. still haven't read them though...

I feel like now days there is hardly any excuse for a lack-lustre cover. I keep a pinterest board for all the covers because the tiny tumbnails just don't showcases how much artistic talent really goes into them. Some of my favourites would have to be:

Irena wrote: "Momof3 wrote: "I bought The Edge of Never because of the cover.. and it turned out to be like the best book ever!"
yeah, this one is really beautiful. i bought..."

I really love Wither, you really should read the series.

Jennifer wrote: "I bought almost completely based off the fact that the cover is gorgeous! Although I still haven't read it :-/

I did judge the Vampire Academy book by their covers. I..."

I've had Everneath on my to read list for a while. I bought The Selection on the strength of the cover too...but the cover on my paranormal horror is not too bad...but I can't take the credit for it!

My favorite covers are:

My favourite book covers are the shatter me covers and the cover for hidden. I LOVE them they are so pretty ;) I have bought a book because of the cover before but is always read the blurb and stuff first :) but yeah, I love pretty covers

Haha, sometimes I feel like I DO judge a book by its cover, which I do most of the time.

Ooh, this is my kind of topic. I totally judge a book by it's cover. That's it's selling point. If the cover sucks, are you really going to pick it up and read the blurb? Maybe if it's from an author you like, or a book a friend suggested... but if it isn't any of those, the book's screwed from the beginning.

I totally bought the Selection based on it's cover


- because it looked like something my husband would be into (he was playing WOW at the time)

I absolutely loved and read the book off of the cover. It became one of my favorite series. The other covers in the series are:



and they're all gorgeous. <3