Do Judge A Book By Its Cover: The Importance of Being Myrtle
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Why we like/dislike it: I think this book cover is pretty awful. It is bland, it looks to me like the sort of old book you’d get free with a woman’s weekly magazine, and certainly wouldn’t inspire me to pick it up. I like the use of purple and white, but the pictures they’ve used just make it look old-fashioned and I really don’t think it’ll appeal to a younger market at all. I do like that Ulrika’s name takes a backseat to the book title, which doesn’t often happen with celebrity written books, but sadly that is the only positive thing I can find about this cover.
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Would we buy this book based on its cover? No.
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May 3rd, 2011 at 3:27 pm
I must admit I do LIKE this cover. The clean lines, the fonts, but I wouldn’t buy it because it seems more like an old-oriented cover; if I saw it in a shop I would assume it’s aimed for someone older than me. So not for me!
May 3rd, 2011 at 3:33 pm
I’m a bit of a book snob when it comes to celebs dabbling in fictional writing. I avoid them, even if I like the cover. Too many have a ghost-writer, and the ones that don’t seem to get slated all over the show too.
Either way, I don’t like the cover. It’s exactly as you said, looks like it would be free with a woman’s gossip magazine.
May 3rd, 2011 at 3:34 pm
I don’t know… I think the cover portrays the plot well. I see a timid, delicate, older women when I look at the cover. I assumed it was about a woman who was going through some kind of crisis. And, lo and behold, I read your synopsis and it appears I am correct.
So, maybe the distaste for the cover says more about you then the cover itself says about the contents of the book? I like the cover and not because it suits my taste but because it probably suits the character in the book.
May 3rd, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Ew Omg! this is awful, enough said!
May 3rd, 2011 at 11:22 pm
Looks like a Mills & Boon cover ~ boring and very uninspiring. I would NOT buy this book due to the cover and the “author”.
May 15th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
I actually liked the cover…I would, at the very least, lift this book up and read the storyline to see if it appealed to me.