Time to make fun of all the ugly book covers I read this year! A bunch of these already showed up on The Bad list(^), but one is from The Good(*)! You can’t judge a book by its cover, I guess. But I will still judge these covers themselves hardcore. Here they are in the order I read them:
Kodiak’s Claim (Kodiak Point #1) by Eve Langlais
Grizzly bear shapeshifter romance novel!!
Outfoxed by Love (Kodiak Point #2) by Eve Langlais
This romance novel is about A MOOSE SHAPESHIFTER!!! Dreams come true
Polar Bared (Kodiak Point #3) by Eve Langlais
Polar bear shapeshifters seem kind of whatever after the moose one, right? Don’t worry, next up:
Caribou’s Gift (Kodiak Point #3.5) by Eve Langlais
CARIBOU SHAPESHIFTER CHRISTMAS ROMANCE NOVEL!
Nearly Dead by Brendan P. Myers
^A satellite image of the setting? Try harder, Brendan.
The Battle Begins: The Story of Creation by Caleb Seeling
^Kids like comic books, right? This is clearly the best way to make theology appealing to kids, right?
The Sea King (Weathermages of Mystral #2) by C.L.Wilson
The main character is basically Aquaman, and all I asked of this book was for him to solve a problem by talking to a whale. And this book delivered.
My Wild Irish Dragon by Ashlyn Chase
^Mythological creatures fighting fires! But they can’t fight the fire… in their hearts.
The Winter King (Weathermages of Mystral #1) by C.L.Wilson
lol I mean look at it
The Geek Girl and the Scandalous Earl
^I guess most of these shitty romance novels are on par with each other.
Geek Girls Don’t Date Dukes by Gina Lamm
^This series tried a LITTLE harder than Kodiak Point, but barely.
Color Me Murder by Krista Davis
^Still mad at this cover for tricking me into thinking this was a coloring book
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
This one is on here because the book was really good! And the cover is really not.
Darker by ELJames
^I guess ELJames is so successful she doesn’t even have to try anymore? This cover is worse than Kodiak Point, tbh
Unpunished by Charlotte Gilman
^What am I even looking at, Charlotte
The Aquiliad by S.P.Somtow
This cover is bad, but it also perfectly encapsulates this book.
…And the Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer
*This book was way better than the boring cover implied!
Dragon Pact by Mac Flynn
^A lot of bare man-chests on this list this year, huh
The Mystery of the Purple Pool by Gertrude Warner
It’s so amazingly 80s, I kind of love it.
The Space Between Us by Brenna Yovanoff
^Melodramatic af
Previously: 2018: The Bad
Next: 2018: The Pretty
How have I never heard of the Aquiliad, with a cover like that