Book Covers



Book covers have always been the first thing that makes me pick up a book. I prefer books with covers that tell a story on their own or contain a symbol or object within the story.

I love the cover for The Glass Castle , because it focuses on the girl in the image, with the rugged edges around her, almost like a photo cut out of another photo. The pose she's in also drew me in because it almost looks like she's telling a secret to someone, which makes you want to read the book in order to figure out who this girl is and what she has to say.

I don't like covers that have eyes on them. I don't know what it is, but the eyes have this deep, cutting feeling that distracts me from the book itself.

For In Cold Blood , I was spooked out the minute I saw the cover. I know that it has a very dark, cold theme, but it still freaked me out every time I took it out of my backpack. Cartoon eyes are fine, but when the eyes are real, it just makes the book that much more terrifying.

I have bought a book solely based on its cover, and it was Incarceron. It was a very confusing book that I have no desire to re-read, but the cover just drew me in with the metallic colors and the mysterious key.



The cool way the key is designed and how intricate the key and gears surrounding it are just pulled me in. The tagline at the bottom intrigued me as well. I wanted to know how it was possible for a prison to be alive and what the key had to do with it.

Although covers don't entirely make or break a book, it is annoying when the book is amazing, but the cover is awful, and vice versa. I think that equal effort should be put into both aspects so that the reader is given an accurate representation of what they're getting themselves into.