In my opinion, book covers should be clean and exact. They shouldn't contain unnecessary pictures or images just to "add depth". (P.S. this is not adding depth, it's just cluttering a page) Some examples of keeping it clean and exact that I love include:
Don't Get Caught by Kurt Dinan
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Simplistic is Everything
Covers that I absolutely hate. Anything with a face or any real people on the front page makes me immediately want to turn down the book. It doesn't capture the audience and draw them in, it just leaves them more than a little freaked out. I don't know about you, but up-close and personal is not my forte. Some examples of book covers that I hate include:
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Clutter, Clutter and more Clutter
Not only do I hate book covers that give a close-up of somebody's face, I also hate book covers that make the awful decision of putting the cover for their upcoming movie as the front cover of their recent book. I'm not saying I hate the book, I'm saying I hate the cover of the book. Examples that I hate:
Martian by Andy Weir (Although I love the book)
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Our movie cover stinks so we'll put it on the book too
Most of society will argue the point that they're all good people and they never base a book off of it's cover. However, all of society is lying. They base books off their covers all the time. Have you ever picked up a book, read the back and then looked at the cover only to put it down? What about the opposite-have you ever looked at the cover and read the back thinking the book was going to be bad but read it anyway because the cover was so good? People today are judging book based on their covers, they just aren't realizing it.
I know I have based a book on it's cover before too. As shown earlier in the "Simplistic is Everything" section, Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon has a wonderful cover that immediately drew me in and made me want to read it. I read the back and it wouldn't have been my first choice in book but the cover was so good and I bought it anyway. Fast-forward a week later and I had the book finished. I loved the novel, even though I was certain it wasn't by genre. I based a book on it's cover and it turns out, I loved it.
I'm not saying go out there and buy any book based on the cover, but I am saying that sometimes the cover can make or break the book and society has the right to know this.
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