Never Judge a Book by its Cover

Yesterday marked the ebook release of Hidden Huntress (yay!), the sequel to Stolen Songbird (you can find that review here.)
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Maybe you don’t agree with me here, but I find the first cover completely unattractive. It’s green, and the girl is wearing a frumpy dress. A mess, in my honest opinion. I begrudgingly read this book last week, and was floored by how good it was. The world was cool, the legends were as well, and the politics of the trolls were fascinating. The romance was sweet, and the characters were all multifaceted and interestingly complex. All in all, it was a great read. The second cover, on the other hand, looks great. Given, it’s my favorite color and has a fan on it, but I’d sooner pick up that book than the first one.

Kate White, the former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, writes in her book I Shouldn’t be Telling You This, about bits of knowledge she’s accrued over the years. In it she shares the tidbit of wisdom “never do a green cover”, and I never realized how true that was until now.

But that’s just it! I don’t have to like the cover to like the book, I just be to like the book itself. A pretty cover makes a book stand out from the thousands of others, but if you’ve toiled away writing your masterpiece, who has the right to tell you that you can’t make the cover green?

I’ve been thinking a lot about how many good books I could be missing because their covers are a little different, and that scares me. Let me know if you re read anything that’s pretty amazing, and has a pretty awful cover. I’m going to branch out. I might even read more books with green covers.

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