Cover Crazy: Models and Dresses

**Welcome to Cover Crazy! This is a feature on Bookhi that focuses on nothing but book covers. Most people judge books by their covers, even without realising; it might not catch their eye or appeal to their reading preference. I will post about new releases, beautiful covers, UK vs US and pretty much anything that takes my fancy to do with them.**

A lot of covers have models with beautiful dresses, and I have noticed a lot of books with them. Also, a lot of books have models on the covers. In my opinion, I don't really like covers with models on. I prefer an illustration of an object or design which grabs my attention better than characters on books. Today I am going to talk about a few examples and my opinions.

First of all, here are a few covers with dresses:

The Luxe series by Anna Godbersen

Entwined by Heather Dixen

Forgiven by Janet Fox

The Princess of the Midnight Ball by
Jessica Day George

Fallen series by Lauren Kate

I think most of the dresses above are really eye catching and appealing, and most females will be intrigued to buy it from just the dress. However, many people have different dress senses; I tried to get a variety of different types. The Luxe series are very big and puffy which will give an impression that the book is set in an old-fashioned time. Whereas Forgiven and the Fallen series are more modern.

Moving onto the models of the covers, I think sometimes they work best and sometimes they don't. I like to think of the characters up myself, and sometimes characters on covers don't work or portray a storyline that doesn't appeal to me. For example, I don't really like one of the covers for I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You by Ally Carter (right). The girl on the cover gives me an idea of the typical high school, maybe something like I have read before. It isn't, because it is actually a really good book about a spy girl you can kill with a piece of uncooked spaghetti.......

What do you think? Do models on covers work?

Zoe xx