Comments on: What’s Your Favorite Type of Cover?

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By: YaYa

YaYa — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:34:06 +0000

I prefer no faces on the guys since I like to use my own imagination. If it is a historical book I like to see the clothing and hair styles. Mary Balogh’s ” The Proposal” is a great example.

By: Karen Schoelen

Karen Schoelen — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:44:04 +0000

I like nice scenery, like the house and grounds that are depicted in the book.

By: Taryn

Taryn — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:05:07 +0000

Covers don’t make me buy, but they get my attention (or not) by giving info about the time period (I like Regency, dislike Westerns), credibility (other authors i like saying they liked this book), and “spicy scale” (c’mon – you know what I mean!). That said, I decide to leave the book on the shelf if the back of the book story blurb says it’s about a 18-yr-old virgin who just has to get married. (Yawn.) There are so many more richly textured romances out there! Basically – agree with others that the story is why we buy, not the cover (but jeez I’d love it if they could make the titles less embarrassing!)

I wonder why so many books have decapitated the people on the cover? And really, what ever happened to all those hero’s shirts? Does anyone really buy *because* of the man’s muscled chest or *in spite* of it?

By: MJ

MJ — Sat, 26 May 2012 21:20:16 +0000

I like cover ART best of all. Meaning any picture or photograph that grabs my interests even if I wouldn’t want it on my wall. For example, Dark Road to Darjeeling or Hush, Hush or Devil in the White City. These images are evocative and provocative–they are their own mini-story. And, the covers reflect what’s between the pages.

By: Grettel

Grettel — Sat, 26 May 2012 05:25:40 +0000

If I don’t know anything about the book. It must have a beautiful cover but not an usual one. I won’t choose a beach setting or a sexy couple, I’ll look for something intriguing (I wouldn’t read Fifty Shades of Gray but I find the cover elegant and interesting)

By: bavarian

bavarian — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:27:31 +0000

Leafing through the May issue of rt Magazine I suddenly stopped, couldn’t quite make out what made me stop so I flipped back a few pages. And there it was: Janet Dailey, Trust. The cover shows a man with his leather jacket on and a t-shirt underneath, no naked breast, no sixpack! But…the other title in the series, Honor, shown in a small version, has it all: the open shirt and so on.
Needless to say: I hate all these naked male breasts, but following the review boards there seem to be some readers who really love these “hot guys”.
Sometimes one even can find women with nice clothes on, but the men have their shirts torn down in a fashion one only can ask how and why they are constraining themselves with their shirt sleeves half down.

Lately I noticed that Revell does really nice covers, for example Olivia Newport, The Pursuit of Lucy Banning. It shows not only the heroine in a wonderful dress but also a period street scene as background. Without reading a word You get the feeling of the time and the mood.
All that said I’m one of the party who prefers landscapes (with few people if necessary) or an item related to the plot. How nice was the earlier cover of One perfect Rose by Mary Jo Putney showing only one perfect red rose. The new cover has the ubiquitous woman with a nearly bare back.
As for buying a book for it’s cover. I fear I more often haven’t bought a book because of it’s cover. I really must like the author or have read very good reviews to buy a book with an – in my opinion – ugly or distasteful cover. It’s part of the pleasure of reading a book to look at it without cringing! E-book readers really help!

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 25 May 2012 21:29:39 +0000

I love the sexy/clinch cover, but only if it is done right. This is my favorite type:

http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1333578781l/221417.jpg

By: Elizabeth Rolls

Elizabeth Rolls — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:47:08 +0000

What I find fascinating about the whole e-book-reading-in-public thing, is not so much what it says about what we choose to read, but how judgmental people are about others’ reading choices. Where possible now I buy mass market fiction on my Kindle, but this is more for reasons of space than anything else.
I can recall sitting on a train many years ago (I was probably about 19) reading a Georgette Heyer, and having some complete yahoo read aloud over my shoulder. When he asked why I bothered with reading what he thought was snobbish crap, I responded that it was fun reading about men with better manners than his and told him to … well, you know what I told him to do! Frankly after that example of idiocy, I decided I didn’t give two damns what anyone thought of my reading choices and that was that. I couldn’t care less what people think, but it irritates me that they even think they have the right to judge. Especially when they’re bad mannered and stump dumb.