Presenting: The Fifth Annual Lousies Awardees!

As usual, democracy is messy (especially when behind-the-scenes technical errors meant you were encouraged to vote twice). But the reward is sweet, isn’t it? Isn’t it?

Presenting the ten worst covers featured in 2024, according to your bleeding eyeballs:

#10:

Kaina: The Side Quest Tomes The Great Celestial War.: Book 3 to the Great Anomaly.

(originally posted June 12, 2024)

#9:

The Immortal Lover (The First Book of the UnHoly Pursuit Sequels): Revised

(originally posted January 12, 2024)

#8:

Cecil and Pearle and The Merry-Go-Round

(originally posted May 17, 2024 (and before that, July 26, 2023 — oops!))

#7:

Flash in a Flash: A Quick Read for the Impatient

(originally posted May 8, 2024)

#6:

Secrets of the alchemist star lord of wars in a rings of time matrix

(originally posted October 5, 2024)

#5:

The Beat Of The Wolf’s Dying Heart: Climate Change Meets Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Future Fliers Book 2)

(originally posted March 14, 2024)

#4:

THE WHITE AFRICAN QUEEN CURON PLUS THE HUMAN DYKE WHO WON ALL SHIFTER GOD’S LESBIAN MATES: MFALME WA AFRIKA MFALME WA CURON PLUS DYKE AMBAO WON WOTE SHIFTER MATESO YA WASAGAJI WA MUNGU

(originally posted April 21, 2024)

#3:

The Quest For The Elemental Gods

(originally posted September 27, 2024)

#2:

Petit Ruri

(originally posted December 8, 2024)

#1:

The Dutiful and the Banned

(originally posted December 31, 2024)

Those with above-average recall will note that a cover from Mr. Woerner achieved the #1 slot last year as well, after having come in at #9 the year before. The cream will rise, my friends.