I don’t know, if you read the book there’s this scene where a character is looking through a window from Brooklyn toward Manhattan in 1919 while it’s raining, and it made me look at the book cover in a new way. Maybe if you read the book it would make sense. Otherwise you could just criticize it from afar. That works too.
Joan
1) There’s plenty of space at the bottom of the cover for the title; you didn’t have to lay it right across the face’s nose.
2) There’s a typo in the pullquote at top (“charaters”).
But beyond that, you’re displaying a fundamental misunderstanding of what a cover it for. No one looks at a cover and thinks, “Boy, I hope that when I read this book the cover will make sense to me.” The cover is to attract the right kind of reader (i.e., one who would enjoy the book). That’s all. Full stop. As soon as you start thinking, “If you read the book you’ll get the cover,” you’ve got the cart before the horse.
Yet another example of the sort of cover that I hate the most: the one that comes just this close to being really good and then blows it.
Yes. It’s so unfortunate.
You’re absolutely right, it certainly does blow.
I don’t know, if you read the book there’s this scene where a character is looking through a window from Brooklyn toward Manhattan in 1919 while it’s raining, and it made me look at the book cover in a new way. Maybe if you read the book it would make sense. Otherwise you could just criticize it from afar. That works too.
Joan
You missed the major criticisms:
1) There’s plenty of space at the bottom of the cover for the title; you didn’t have to lay it right across the face’s nose.
2) There’s a typo in the pullquote at top (“charaters”).
But beyond that, you’re displaying a fundamental misunderstanding of what a cover it for. No one looks at a cover and thinks, “Boy, I hope that when I read this book the cover will make sense to me.” The cover is to attract the right kind of reader (i.e., one who would enjoy the book). That’s all. Full stop. As soon as you start thinking, “If you read the book you’ll get the cover,” you’ve got the cart before the horse.