Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish that other bloggers are welcome to join in, to create Top Ten lists on varying topics.  Broke and Bookish are having a break until the 15th August so we’ve come up with some of our own! This week it’s Top Ten Ten book covers I wish I could re-design.

Paein

1 Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

The Bloodlines series, set after this, has far nicer covers and a storyline not nearly as good! Why is that always the way?

2 The Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce

I love this story, not so much the cover! It’s a pretty unimpressive cover for such a powerful book.

3 Almost by Anne Eliot

I have no idea what to say about this cover, it really is beyond words – I don’t like it.

4 Eon by Alison Goodman

This cover is fine. Except it doesn’t match the second one! I like the second one far better, more dramatic and elegant, so I’d change book one to match, maybe Eona as Eon.

5 The Magician’s Apprentice by Trudi Canavan

This one also doesn’t match. (Nor does the three set after The Black Magician Trilogy). Not only that, but the books are bigger! Terrible stuff, I like my series to match themselves, it seems more than a little reasonable to me. Hilariously, the picture for The Magician’s Apprentice is also bigger than the others…

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Ms4Tune

 

6 The Nightworld Omnibus books by L J Smith

If you’ve been a fan of these books for as long as Paein and I have then you will know that these books were the redesign of the 1990′s editions. Not a problem, as the 90′s covers were pretty dated and lacked the wow factor needed now to make someone want to pick them up for the first time, but COME ON! who came up with this genetic crap? These omnibus’s deserved so much better! I have however been introduced (by Paein) to the beautiful redesigns that Simon and Schuster have just published – so there is hope that we can have a new set with gorgeous covers soon. Sadly the series is still lacking the final book but as I’ve been moaning on about this for the last 20 years and there is still no sign of it, I think it’s time I just resign myself to the fact that L J Smith is never going to write it.

7 Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

I think I have a thing against the cover designs for YA supernatural romances… because I also don’t like the designs for Twilight. I know, ooow pretty and they match and they’re all simple and dramatic, GREAT… but they don’t really say much about the story, do they? Have I missed something? I don’t know, maybe I have. I’m not sure how I would redesign them but I bet there’s a designer out there somewhere with amazing ideas for this one. Fingers crossed.

8 Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay

See definitely have a ‘bee-in-my-bonnet’ for YA Sup-Rom covers as again this cover may be pretty but says absolutely nothing about the story. I don’t even remember her going near the sea… or wearing a red dress…??? Overly dramatic and whimsical if you ask me.

9 Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell

I actually quite like this design but ever since I saw the American cover (left) of Cuckoo Song by Francis Hardinge I’ve been wondering how amazing Frozen Charlotte’s cover could be… PS I love the British cover (right) of Cuckoo Song too. Mesmerizing.

10 The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman

This is the only book on my list that I haven’t actually read but I was recommended this book as a good, short magical realism/romance book. Plus I really liked the sound of it but the cover… hmmm. It’s just not very pretty is it? I don’t know if its true to the story in anyway but I doubt it. It just seems very generic like someone chose a picture from a database somewhere and thought ‘That’ll do’. I’ll read it soon and let you know.

I’ve just looked at the alternative covers and they are just as blahhh.