The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge discussion

WEEKLY CHECK-IN
March 12, 2025 -- Week 11

We're starting week eleven of our 2025 challenge! On our March mini, we have a prompt featuring the prettiest covers on our TBR. So, let's chat about cover designs. What designs or trends do you find irresistible?

(Full confession. Liz knows the trend of historical fiction with women facing away gets a lot of hate. But she can't resist them! They're clearly marketed for her. 😂)

What cover designs do you love best?

I like pretty fantasy covers best - warm colours, flowy shapes, lots of whimsy

I've really been enjoying the inclusion of embroidery on covers. It's simple on first glance, but gets more intricate the longer you look

I really don’t pay much attention to the covers, but I did like the simplicity of some of the covers in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Shadows of the Apt series.

I like pretty patterns. Or beautiful nature on covers. But I’m totally a judge a book by its cover

I like water on the cover, especially beach scenes

Unless it's for a prompt, I don't really pay attention to the covers.

I don't know what the style is called, but a lot of the Ali Hazelwood covers draw me, and others like them. It's a trend in contemporary romance.

I'm not too particular in what I look for in a cover. As long as it looks good to me no matter what genre I will most likely read it because I am a COVER LOVER!