Happy Top Ten Tuesday! Today’s theme is cover redesigns I’ve loved/hated, which, like many of the themes recently, was a little difficult for me. To be honest, I don’t usually keep up with cover redesigns unless it happens in the middle of a series that I’m reading. (Even then, I really don’t care that much.) That said, here are some redesigns that I came up with and my thoughts on them!
I haven’t read all of these, but the ones I haven’t read are on my TBR.
Anna and the French Kiss
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VERDICT: I prefer the redesigned cover.
The Diviners
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VERDICT: I prefer the original cover.
Carry On
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VERDICT: I like them both, but I’m leaning slightly toward the redesigned cover.
Hold Still
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VERDICT: I absolutely, positively, 100% prefer the redesigned cover.
Hothouse Flower
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VERDICT: I actually despise the redesigned cover.
Undead Girl Gang
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VERDICT: I prefer the original cover.
Vicious
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VERDICT: I love the redesigned cover.
The Bell Jar
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VERDICT: This was the oldest and newest cover that I found and I definitely prefer the newer one.
Shadow and Bone
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VERDICT: I prefer the redesigned cover.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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VERDICT: I love the redesigned cover.
Did you do your own Top Ten Tuesday post today? Feel free to leave your link in the comments and I’ll check it out! How do you feel about cover changes? Let’s talk in the comments!
Great choices – I think I agree with you on all of them especially We Have Always Lived In The Castle! 😊
My TTT: https://lifewithallthebooks.com/2019/08/06/top-ten-tuesday-cover-redesigns-i-loved-hated/
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Thank you! I absolutely love the newer cover!! ❤️
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Great TTT!!! I love both covers of Hold Still but I have a different one myself lol! Must be a UK cover :)))
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Thank you! And I often prefer the UK cover. That could be a whole different post. 🙂
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All of these are awesome. I agree with all your picks. I didn’t even realize Hold Still was redesigned.
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Thanks so much! I didn’t realize either until I was scrolling through Goodreads and saw it with a different cover than I was used to seeing!
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I love the recently released edition of The Bell Jar the most! First saw it on Faber Books’ Insta Page.
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Oh, that’s really fun!
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There’s something really kind of awful about the stock photo feel of the covers that have live models isn’t there? Like somebody slapped it all together in a cheap photo-editor or something.
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It’s dissapointing as a reader to see that these things are getting approved on a level that we have no control over . . . like who thought this was a good idea? Like, “Yes, let’s put our 10 day free trial of Canva stock pictures to use and redisign all of our covers.”
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The enamel pins on the Undead Girl Gang original cover is what drew me to it in the first place! Then reading it was about witches, I was sold. (The story is pretty good, too!)
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GAH enamel pins rule, honestly.
I really don’t like it when they put real people on the covers of things , because I feel like it’s them trying to tell me that whtever image I had in my head of said character is wrong.
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I agree with you on all these covers! And what is up with that Hothouse flower redesigned cover? I’m so over the whole ‘shirtless dude’ cover. Sigh.
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I wonder if it’s all the same dude lmao
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I agree with all of your verdicts! Shadow and Bone, Hold Still, Vicious and Anna and The French Kiss are all SO much better than the originals!
The Diviners redesign is a travesty though. I don’t know what they were thinking!
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You know how they try to bring older books back for the new generations. They probably weren’t thinking haha
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Great list! I especially like the cover changes for we have always lived in a castle, vicious and anna and the French kiss!
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle is probably my favorite on this list!!! (And who ever approved the original Vicious cover anyway? Haha)
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I’ve lost count of how many times they’ve redesigned the covers for The Diviners series 😂 Also I’m actually one of the few who prefers the OG Grisha trilogy covers!! 🙊 I think I just prefer the simplicity? Idk 😂
💛 Ngoc
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It’s so weird because that series hasn’t even been out for THAT long, you know? And I totally get that about the Grisha covers! I don’t dislike the original ones at all. 🙂
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