Cover Trends I Love:
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Houses and Buildings on the covers
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Landscapes
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Someone looking out the window or door. I know this is crazy specific but I love the waiting it portrays.
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Just part of a person - I especially like that so many romance novels are switching to this over the classic (and awful) clinch
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Spooky buildings
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Black and white photo
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Simple and clean
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The split cover
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Vintage-y looking
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Stylized illustrations - love the Phrynne Fisher covers too!
What kind of covers make you happy? What kind of cover makes it harder to pick up a book? My least favorite are the badly done cartoons and the cliche romance half dressed couple.
I also like stylized illustrations :) Spooky buildings is a good one too!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I have an astonishing amount of covers that I'm pretty sure I've gotten just because of the buildings!
DeleteAnything spooky grabs my attention immediately. Great list.
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Glad to know I'm not the only one!
DeleteI hate your # 10! Probably second least fave, with most avoided going to ones like Jk Rowlings new mystery.
ReplyDeleteI can't help it that you're wrong! :)
DeleteThese are all awesome covers. I love simple and clean and houses..even spooky ones!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I love a good cover!
DeleteI love the buildings/houses and landscape covers, too.
ReplyDeleteMe too! They get me every time!
DeleteI really like buildings and houses in the background of covers too, it usually indicates the book is an awesome historical or gothic.
ReplyDeleteI love gothic edges to my stories so the buildings always get me.
DeleteMy favorite covers at the moment are ones with houses or buildings. Simple and clean are good too!
ReplyDeleteI love the buildings too. I really just love a good cover!
DeleteLove your top 10, every single one of the trends you mentioned I love especially vintage looking covers :)
ReplyDelete-Kimberly @ Turning the Pages
Thanks! I do get drawn to the vintage covers I think because they remind me of old Nancy Drews.
DeleteI love the fact that you mentioned Mary Roberts Rinehart in any fashion. She is the American Agatha Christie and is second on my list of favorite mystery authors. The first spot belonging to Dame Agatha.
ReplyDeleteRinehart is definitely under-appreciated! I haven't read any of her books in far too long even though I own most of them. I'm planning on doing some rereading of her in the very near future!
DeleteNice picks! I love the more simple covers, I think they work a lot better. The window and door one is very specific, but those covers can be so pretty. Nice picks :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I do love the simple covers and am usually very drawn to them!
DeleteChateau of Secrets and The Summer Queen definitely has nice covers!
ReplyDeleteNice list! I agree particularly with simple-and-clean (love that Beekeeper's Ball cover) and the stylized illustrations of Bowen's books. I had to laugh when I got to 'split covers', though, because if I'd had time to finish my post, that would have been on my "dislikes" list! To be fair, I've seen some I like, but more I don't, which was why it was ending up there. Anyway, to each their own!
ReplyDeleteCovers really are important--at least in first grabbing my attention, especially if I'm browsing. I really like some of the ones you posted: The Summer Queen, for sure, but especially The Quick and The Art of Arranging Flowers.
ReplyDeleteSome nice covers there- like Chateau of secrets (I've been enjoying country houses on coers lately) and The Circular Staircase- totally has that vintage mystery feel. I actually like the Rhys Bowen covers too, the stylized look. Haven't read any of those, but like the covers!
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