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This weeks Top Ten Tuesday is…
Top Ten Book Cover Trends : Eyes
Many of the books I’ve seen recently seem to have an eye as the focal point on the cover so I decided to collect a few for my top ten cover trend. The covers are either of just an eye or an extreme close up of a face.
10. Hate List by Jennifer Brown
One of my favourite books ever.
9. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This can’t be a list about covers with eyes without one of the most memorable of them all.
8. 1984 George Orwell
Another classic book with an eye on the cover.
7. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
This book is just everything. The movie also did the book so much justice and Kristin Stewart deserves so much praise for it!
6. Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel
I didn’t really like this book, but the cover is beautiful.
5. The Newsoul trilogy by Jodi Meadows
The masks around the eyes draw you into them. All three covers are so beautiful
4. The Diviners by Libba Bray
Of course this is before the horrible cover change (why? I loved the old covers).
3. Delirium by Lauren Oliver
I didn’t really like this series all too much and the Pilot was pretty bad.
2. Pawn by Aimee Carter
I love how the eye is on both the jacket and the inner cover.
1. Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi
This undeniably is the best of the lot. The eyes are all just so pretty, my favourite is Ignite Me’s. I love how the flowers are a part of the eye lashes.
What are your Top Ten Cover Trends, I’d love to see them!
I used to really like covers with eyes on, but they’re becoming so popular now. Sometimes they look good and sometimes they freak me out a little!
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Yeah, I agree, ones like the Shatter Me series look amazing but some others are just too terrifying to look at
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I like your essay and now I’m a bit more likely to accept an eye on a book cover. Thank you.
Here’s my list of things I like about book covers.
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No problem, and if the eye is too striking just keep it hidden in your bookshelf
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I don’t generally like closeups of eyes/faces, but I really like the covers for the Shatter Me series!
Here’s my TTT
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Yeah, close-ups can be a little creepy, At night I cover mine so it doesn’t feel as though I am being watched at night.
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I feel like I’m being watched…
My TTT
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Haha! beware of the bookish eyes!
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The Shatter Me series is definitely the best of this trend, but I’m not sure I’m a fan of the big eyes. I also don’t like faces and heads, if that tells you anything. 🙂
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I like the look of the books, but I won’t keep them facing out on my shelf (I don’t like the feeling of being watched)
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I love the Shatter Me series covers so so so much. I own the other editions (they’re awful!) but I would totally just buy these ones for my cover love obsession. x) I don’t mind eyes on covers! but it took me FOREVER to see the eye in the Pawn cover!! I just did not see it!
Thanks for stopping by mine. 😉
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I hate the other edition covers of Shatter Me as well, and I didn’t realize there was an eye on Pawn’s cover till I took the dust jacket off.
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