The Joy and Frustration of New Book Covers: A Personal Reflection
As an avid reader, I have always been fascinated by the world of book covers. The cover art can evoke emotions, convey themes, and even influence our perception of the story within. Recently, I had the opportunity to explore some new book covers that have been released for popular young adult series. From my personal perspective, these new covers offer a fresh take on classic stories while also introducing me to exciting new titles.
The first book I'm going to discuss is the "One Day" trilogy by David Nicholls. This summer beachy read has the fact that summer is in the title already, which gives me an idea of what to expect from the story. However, when it comes to the new cover art, I have mixed feelings. The old covers were alive and vibrant, but the new ones are a bit more muted and less exciting. Unfortunately, I couldn't make up my mind on whether to choose the old or new cover for this series.
Another trilogy that caught my attention is "Stranger Things" by Susan Jenner. As someone who loves science fiction and horror, I was eager to dive into this series. However, when it comes to the new covers, I have a hard time deciding which one is better. The first book in the series has a cover with a bold font, while the second book has a more minimalist design. Both styles appeal to me, but ultimately, I think I prefer the new cover for "Stranger Things". It's easy on the eyes and captures the essence of the story.
However, not all new covers have left me feeling enthusiastic. Take, for instance, "This is Kind of an Epic Love Story" by Kiera Cass. The new cover looks almost identical to "One Day", which raises concerns about originality and creative direction. I'm also not entirely sold on the aesthetic of the new cover, as it reminds me a bit too much of "The Darkest Minds". While I appreciate the bold font and bright colors, I think the overall design is a bit too simplistic.
On the other hand, some new covers have genuinely caught my eye. The latest edition of "Nothing Crosses" by Malorie Blackman has a refreshing new cover that stands out to me. The bright colors and vibrant typography are attention-grabbing, and the overall design feels modern and exciting. I'm curious to dive into this series now, thanks to the appealing cover art.
Another book that has piqued my interest is "The Museum of Heartbreak" by Meg Lefrançois. While the new cover doesn't entirely win me over – it's a bit too juvenile for my taste – I appreciate its unique design. The old cover featured a curio cabinet aesthetic, which I found fascinating and beautiful. Unfortunately, the new cover doesn't quite match that level of originality.
Moving on to "The Museum of Intangible Things" by Wender, I discovered that I had actually included this book in my TBR list at some point but had since forgotten about it. Luckily, when I stumbled upon the new cover art, I fell in love with its minimalist design and bold typography. The font is simple yet effective, and the overall style feels clean and modern.
Lastly, there's "Legacy of Kings" by Eleanor Herman, which has a stunning new cover that caught my eye. The keyhole-inspired design is both striking and intriguing, and the color scheme is beautiful and captivating. Unfortunately, I haven't had the chance to read this book yet, but based on the new cover alone, it's definitely piqued my interest.
In conclusion, new book covers can be a fascinating aspect of reading. While some new designs excite me with their bold typography and vibrant colors, others fail to impress or even evoke mixed emotions. As readers, we often have strong opinions about which design is better – an old classic or a fresh new take. Ultimately, the cover art serves as a gateway into the world of the story within, so it's essential to choose a design that resonates with us and sparks our curiosity.
If you're like me and enjoy exploring new book covers, I'd love to hear your thoughts! Which new covers have caught your eye, and do you prefer classic designs or modern takes? Let me know in the comments below. And if you've read any of these books already, please share your experiences and let's discuss further.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eneveryone is taylean today I'm going to be reading cover changes this news video is going to be similar to the UK versus us book covers video that I do which is basically where I compare the two covers and I choose which one I like best I'm going to be doing it today but it is with two different covers for the same book so as a fair number of covers to compare today at last video was all books that I own but today I'm going to be including somebody don't actually own yet so without further ado let's start comparing covers so first up I have the Grisha trilogy by Leigh bardugo this is the only instance where I actually own both editions of it because I decided to repurchase it because I am crazy the first step we have book one shadow and bone this is actually the UK Edition the US Edition is gray it looks the same this one's just purple and this is the new one right here these ones are hard to show because my bring light makes it very shiny but you can still see it and we have book to Ephesians storm which same sort of thing and finally book free rune and rising which once again same sort of style no can't possibly hold up all six of them at one because that is very difficult let me tell you buddy an old one kind of focused more on the Russian aspect of it you really get that with these they do kind of allude to a little bit of what's going on in the series but not very much now the spines on them are kind of boring these ones have play in spines which once again is kind of boring but I do like the font and the shininess I've done and these have really fun they're the cool paperbacks where they have these gorgeous illustrations on the inside that match these are out of order but you get the point I'm struggling a lot but I love the fact that these all have the animal that corresponds with that book on it I think that is so cool and it does really fit the series better so I'm gonna have to say these ones although I like both of them alive think they're both beautiful I really enjoy the new one next up is carry on by Rainbow Rowell this is the old one and then this is the new one the new one's much more colorful it's a little bit more fun more fantasy oriented this one I like it but I feel like it's kind of boring it just doesn't really capture my attention like the new one does I think this one gets more of a male male romance across which is really cool and I like that read this yet so I don't know how it actually fits the content of the story but I have to say that well I like both of them I do prefer the new one it's purple so like it kind of just pullin at me with that I really love purples and pinks and just that whole color combination in the artistic style of the new cover how it looks like a drawing I love when book covers are drawn I think they're beautiful so I very much like the new one and I'm going to go with the new one next up is a bubble of the sands by Allen Hamilton this is the old cover and this is the new cover this one hands down goes to the old cover I just prefer the color scheme this one is much more my style I think that the new one is dark and it's really focusing on that word rebel that becomes kind of the center of it I like the fact that this one has gold and all the teal and turquoise I think it worked really well together and I feel like it fits the story a little bit better than the new one I do like the fact that we do have this badass looking female character on the new one but I just think that this one is so much prettier this one is just more aesthetically pleasing to me I'm very girly in that sense but I like this one a lot next up is more happy than not by Adam Silveira this is the old cover and this is the new cover the new cover apparent is something that I've seen before it's just kind of like rainbow paint splatters and I don't really see how that has to do with the story I do in a way but then I also don't I just preferred this one with the smiley face and everything and I just think this is really focusing on that title I feel like that becomes a big thing and you notice the smiley face after which I think it's kind of cool so I prefer this one next install Tennessee by Marissa Penny's this is the old cover and this is the new cover it actually just came out this past week and I don't know how I feel about it I like both of them for different reasons I think they can say the same message in a different way which is interesting and I think both of them fit the story I actually don't know I feel like they both get across that isolation and kind of be starkness of the situation because you have a life preserver here that's just in the middle of a terribly turbulent ocean actually I think this one kind of gets across the message of this particular book a little bit better upon for inspection I like the fact that there's multiple life preservers in the background and you just have one as the focus and the new one I do enjoy but I just think that this one shows a little bit more of the poignancy of the story I think they're both startling and powerful images but I don't know there's just something about this one that really resonates with me in terms of the story and having read it I feel like this one just kind of makes me sad all over again next up is the dark days Club by Alison Goodman this is the old cover and this is the new cover the new covers kind of takes more of a classic why a turn which I'm not a huge fan of I feel like it went in a similar direction to the diviners cover change which I believe I included in the last time I did this video but for this one I definitely prefer the old cover I love the fact that it has like this sort of you can kind of see it this lacy overlay and I feel like it really captures the victorian gothic feel that the story has a new one does but in more of a corny way so this one is definitely my preference and finally for the ones that i own is the unexpected everything by Morgan Matson this is the old cover and this is the new cover very slight changes but they do make a difference I feel like so the title has moved down as you can obviously see and it's a different background image now I love both the background images I mean they both have puppies how can I not love them they're just talking about my heartstrings there but I think that I like this one better because it kind of conveys the fact that it's summer it's a fun time and she's walking all these dogs I don't know something about it I prefer the busyness of this one the other one I feel like there's just one thing to look at the tree trunks doesn't really do much for me I'm just kind of focused in on her and the dogs which is fine but there's also only two dogs and this one she has like a ton of dogs so like more dogs more fun I like the old cover so moving on to the ones that I don't own first up is the summer I turned pretty trilogy by Jenny Han just got a refresh this summer and I don't really know how I feel about it I like it and I like that B title is the focus and it's got like these shells around it I think that's cool but I kind of liked the softness of the old cover I feel like the images really relaxed I don't know just something about it but I have to say I do kind of prefer the new cover I think it's a nice refresh that the series guy and there's just something fun and it really conveys that summer message that the story has I like the fact that you know this is a summer breed even without seeing the fact that summer is in the title you know the summer beachy read so I think I prefer the new ones next if it's something strange and deadly if I Susan Jenner's this is another trilogy that got a whole new refresh and I like the old covers alive I I like the new covers too this is one where I really have mixed feelings on it I feel like the new one time to kiss me once again diviners five it's kind of like the dark days Club it reminds me a little bit of that one bye I kind of I feel like no I don't really know for this one if you keep on noticing that like I'm looking slightly to the left with my left your right likely but I can't tell constructions are hard it's because I'm looking on my computer screen to look at the covers but I haven't read this one so I feel like I can't really say by just basically going off of aesthetic oh this is really difficult I think the new one oh I don't know but I'm going to go with the new one next up is nothing crosses by Malorie Blackman this is another trilogy that got a new refresh there's so many series I've got new covers recently and this is the old cover in the new cover I prefer the new cover for this one this is a series that I haven't actually read yet once again and it's one night kind of interest me but not at the moment because I feel like it would just flare up my anxieties but I like the colors of the new one I feel like they're more exciting and I'm just a sucker for rainbow and colorful so I like the new one next up is the Museum of heartbreak by Meg letters this is the old cover and this is the new cover the new cover I feel like is a little bit more juvenile not as exciting this is definitely another one where I prefer the old cover I just feel like it's cool how it looks like kind of a curio cabinet I really like that look so I like the old cover next up is the Museum of intangible things i wende wonder is this one I actually had had on my TBR and then kind of forgot about it and then yesterday I was at work and I saw the new cover and I loved the new cover this one I think it's so fun I love the font and it kind of has this minimalist style so I kind of wanted to pick it up and I haven't yet but if you've read that book let me know but I definitely prefer the new cover next is legacy of Kings by Eleanor Herman this is another one that I haven't read yet but this is the old cover and new cover the old cover I feel like is a little bit more brutal it kind of gets that brutality across of the story and from what I know about the story I feel like it would definitely be kind of a brutal bloody story but I do aesthetically prefer the new cover and like how it's like a keyhole and you're looking through and you see like this kind of Acropolis style building I like the color scheme from the new cover so definitely a new cover I don't really know how well that fits the story though but just aesthetically speaking new covers and I do have a few more states on my computer but I'm just going to talk about one more and that is flame caster by Cinda Williams Chima this is the old cover and this is the new cover interesting thoughts because then you look at throat of glass and it looks almost the same so I do really like the new cover but I feel like it's too similar to Rona blast the old cover isn't terribly original either because it's kind of taking like that divergent sort of vibe and really the old cover looks like the direction that throne of glass is taking with Howard dawn which I'm not happy about and I hope that doesn't mean that the last book in the series is going to have a cover that doesn't match the rest of them but I like both of them but originality I would pick neither of them so those are all the cover changes I'm going to be talking about today I hope you guys enjoyed this video let me know which covers you would choose for all of these I always find it interesting because a lot of you guys disagree with me and I think it's interesting how we have different styles and stuff yeah if you've read any of the books that I hadn't read that they change the covers let me know which ones you think fit better and you have a lot to let me know now but thank you guys so much for watching I put on new videos every Monday and Thursday and I will see you on is this going up on Monday I'll see you on Thursday or if not I will see you on next Monday we are struggling here ok good bye Oheveryone is taylean today I'm going to be reading cover changes this news video is going to be similar to the UK versus us book covers video that I do which is basically where I compare the two covers and I choose which one I like best I'm going to be doing it today but it is with two different covers for the same book so as a fair number of covers to compare today at last video was all books that I own but today I'm going to be including somebody don't actually own yet so without further ado let's start comparing covers so first up I have the Grisha trilogy by Leigh bardugo this is the only instance where I actually own both editions of it because I decided to repurchase it because I am crazy the first step we have book one shadow and bone this is actually the UK Edition the US Edition is gray it looks the same this one's just purple and this is the new one right here these ones are hard to show because my bring light makes it very shiny but you can still see it and we have book to Ephesians storm which same sort of thing and finally book free rune and rising which once again same sort of style no can't possibly hold up all six of them at one because that is very difficult let me tell you buddy an old one kind of focused more on the Russian aspect of it you really get that with these they do kind of allude to a little bit of what's going on in the series but not very much now the spines on them are kind of boring these ones have play in spines which once again is kind of boring but I do like the font and the shininess I've done and these have really fun they're the cool paperbacks where they have these gorgeous illustrations on the inside that match these are out of order but you get the point I'm struggling a lot but I love the fact that these all have the animal that corresponds with that book on it I think that is so cool and it does really fit the series better so I'm gonna have to say these ones although I like both of them alive think they're both beautiful I really enjoy the new one next up is carry on by Rainbow Rowell this is the old one and then this is the new one the new one's much more colorful it's a little bit more fun more fantasy oriented this one I like it but I feel like it's kind of boring it just doesn't really capture my attention like the new one does I think this one gets more of a male male romance across which is really cool and I like that read this yet so I don't know how it actually fits the content of the story but I have to say that well I like both of them I do prefer the new one it's purple so like it kind of just pullin at me with that I really love purples and pinks and just that whole color combination in the artistic style of the new cover how it looks like a drawing I love when book covers are drawn I think they're beautiful so I very much like the new one and I'm going to go with the new one next up is a bubble of the sands by Allen Hamilton this is the old cover and this is the new cover this one hands down goes to the old cover I just prefer the color scheme this one is much more my style I think that the new one is dark and it's really focusing on that word rebel that becomes kind of the center of it I like the fact that this one has gold and all the teal and turquoise I think it worked really well together and I feel like it fits the story a little bit better than the new one I do like the fact that we do have this badass looking female character on the new one but I just think that this one is so much prettier this one is just more aesthetically pleasing to me I'm very girly in that sense but I like this one a lot next up is more happy than not by Adam Silveira this is the old cover and this is the new cover the new cover apparent is something that I've seen before it's just kind of like rainbow paint splatters and I don't really see how that has to do with the story I do in a way but then I also don't I just preferred this one with the smiley face and everything and I just think this is really focusing on that title I feel like that becomes a big thing and you notice the smiley face after which I think it's kind of cool so I prefer this one next install Tennessee by Marissa Penny's this is the old cover and this is the new cover it actually just came out this past week and I don't know how I feel about it I like both of them for different reasons I think they can say the same message in a different way which is interesting and I think both of them fit the story I actually don't know I feel like they both get across that isolation and kind of be starkness of the situation because you have a life preserver here that's just in the middle of a terribly turbulent ocean actually I think this one kind of gets across the message of this particular book a little bit better upon for inspection I like the fact that there's multiple life preservers in the background and you just have one as the focus and the new one I do enjoy but I just think that this one shows a little bit more of the poignancy of the story I think they're both startling and powerful images but I don't know there's just something about this one that really resonates with me in terms of the story and having read it I feel like this one just kind of makes me sad all over again next up is the dark days Club by Alison Goodman this is the old cover and this is the new cover the new covers kind of takes more of a classic why a turn which I'm not a huge fan of I feel like it went in a similar direction to the diviners cover change which I believe I included in the last time I did this video but for this one I definitely prefer the old cover I love the fact that it has like this sort of you can kind of see it this lacy overlay and I feel like it really captures the victorian gothic feel that the story has a new one does but in more of a corny way so this one is definitely my preference and finally for the ones that i own is the unexpected everything by Morgan Matson this is the old cover and this is the new cover very slight changes but they do make a difference I feel like so the title has moved down as you can obviously see and it's a different background image now I love both the background images I mean they both have puppies how can I not love them they're just talking about my heartstrings there but I think that I like this one better because it kind of conveys the fact that it's summer it's a fun time and she's walking all these dogs I don't know something about it I prefer the busyness of this one the other one I feel like there's just one thing to look at the tree trunks doesn't really do much for me I'm just kind of focused in on her and the dogs which is fine but there's also only two dogs and this one she has like a ton of dogs so like more dogs more fun I like the old cover so moving on to the ones that I don't own first up is the summer I turned pretty trilogy by Jenny Han just got a refresh this summer and I don't really know how I feel about it I like it and I like that B title is the focus and it's got like these shells around it I think that's cool but I kind of liked the softness of the old cover I feel like the images really relaxed I don't know just something about it but I have to say I do kind of prefer the new cover I think it's a nice refresh that the series guy and there's just something fun and it really conveys that summer message that the story has I like the fact that you know this is a summer breed even without seeing the fact that summer is in the title you know the summer beachy read so I think I prefer the new ones next if it's something strange and deadly if I Susan Jenner's this is another trilogy that got a whole new refresh and I like the old covers alive I I like the new covers too this is one where I really have mixed feelings on it I feel like the new one time to kiss me once again diviners five it's kind of like the dark days Club it reminds me a little bit of that one bye I kind of I feel like no I don't really know for this one if you keep on noticing that like I'm looking slightly to the left with my left your right likely but I can't tell constructions are hard it's because I'm looking on my computer screen to look at the covers but I haven't read this one so I feel like I can't really say by just basically going off of aesthetic oh this is really difficult I think the new one oh I don't know but I'm going to go with the new one next up is nothing crosses by Malorie Blackman this is another trilogy that got a new refresh there's so many series I've got new covers recently and this is the old cover in the new cover I prefer the new cover for this one this is a series that I haven't actually read yet once again and it's one night kind of interest me but not at the moment because I feel like it would just flare up my anxieties but I like the colors of the new one I feel like they're more exciting and I'm just a sucker for rainbow and colorful so I like the new one next up is the Museum of heartbreak by Meg letters this is the old cover and this is the new cover the new cover I feel like is a little bit more juvenile not as exciting this is definitely another one where I prefer the old cover I just feel like it's cool how it looks like kind of a curio cabinet I really like that look so I like the old cover next up is the Museum of intangible things i wende wonder is this one I actually had had on my TBR and then kind of forgot about it and then yesterday I was at work and I saw the new cover and I loved the new cover this one I think it's so fun I love the font and it kind of has this minimalist style so I kind of wanted to pick it up and I haven't yet but if you've read that book let me know but I definitely prefer the new cover next is legacy of Kings by Eleanor Herman this is another one that I haven't read yet but this is the old cover and new cover the old cover I feel like is a little bit more brutal it kind of gets that brutality across of the story and from what I know about the story I feel like it would definitely be kind of a brutal bloody story but I do aesthetically prefer the new cover and like how it's like a keyhole and you're looking through and you see like this kind of Acropolis style building I like the color scheme from the new cover so definitely a new cover I don't really know how well that fits the story though but just aesthetically speaking new covers and I do have a few more states on my computer but I'm just going to talk about one more and that is flame caster by Cinda Williams Chima this is the old cover and this is the new cover interesting thoughts because then you look at throat of glass and it looks almost the same so I do really like the new cover but I feel like it's too similar to Rona blast the old cover isn't terribly original either because it's kind of taking like that divergent sort of vibe and really the old cover looks like the direction that throne of glass is taking with Howard dawn which I'm not happy about and I hope that doesn't mean that the last book in the series is going to have a cover that doesn't match the rest of them but I like both of them but originality I would pick neither of them so those are all the cover changes I'm going to be talking about today I hope you guys enjoyed this video let me know which covers you would choose for all of these I always find it interesting because a lot of you guys disagree with me and I think it's interesting how we have different styles and stuff yeah if you've read any of the books that I hadn't read that they change the covers let me know which ones you think fit better and you have a lot to let me know now but thank you guys so much for watching I put on new videos every Monday and Thursday and I will see you on is this going up on Monday I'll see you on Thursday or if not I will see you on next Monday we are struggling here ok good bye Oh\n"
