I saw this meme popping up the other day and I thought it would be a fun way to take a closer look at all those beautiful covers out there. Cover Characteristic is hosted at Sugar & Snark and has a weekly theme.
This week is all about covers with CLASSROOMS. Since I couldn’t find any, these covers below will be of books where at least one of the scenes is set in a classroom. There are many many stories with scenes set in a classroom, but these are 5 of my favorite covers. (The runner ups are in no particular order this time)
Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid (read in January 2016; 2,5/5 stars): I like how this cover is simple, but managed to catch your attention. Add a liberal use of my favorite color (blue) and a nice contrast with the white of the paper and the orange, and you have a great cover. A shame the story itself didn’t live up to it though.
Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang (read in May 2015; 3/5 stars): Yet another simple cover, but it works. The background is subtle and I like that it has math formulas in the background (since they play a role in the story). I like the detail of the road and car with the title in between as well… The only thing I would have left out myself is the red sentence at the top.
All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven (read in June 2015; 3,5/5 stars): I really like the pastel colors used in this cover, as well as the distribution of the title and added illustrations. I think I would have used white instead of yellow papers though.
The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu (read in July 2015; 2/5 stars): I LOVE the color combination, fonts and placement of the title of this cover. The background also relates to the story itself, which is a nice touch. I wish the book would have been just as good as the cover….
Now on to my favorite cover of this week:
1. A Study In Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro (read in June 2016; 4/5 stars): This is probably one of my all time favorite covers. It basically has everything I could love in a cover: use of white and dark color, good contrast between title and background, pretty color combination, use of blue… The book itself was a great read as well.
What is your personal favorite out of these 5 covers? And have you read any of these books yourself? Feel free to comment!
I like your twist in this one. Couldn’t find any books that depict classrooms on the cover myself, so I’m not doing it this week. Anyway, I really like the cover for A Study in Charlotte, the colours are just striking 😀
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I wasn’t going to join at first this week either, but I thought these were close enough to the original theme. 😉 I’m glad you like the cover of A Study In Charlotte as well! 🙂
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Oh that was a fun way to do the meme, finding books that involve classrooms since you couldn’t find good covers 🙂 I just did my own topic lol. My favorite covers on your list are All the Bright Places and A Study in Charloette, but they’re all nice and eye-catching!
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I was going to do a completely different topic myself as well, but I started thinking about books (partly) set at a high school and it seemed easy to at least come up with titles. 😉
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I probably like Never Always Sometimes and All The Bright Places the best, although I do like Study in Charlotte as well. I like the little mini- pictures in that one.
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I actually like all of these covers, although I agree Never Always Sometimes is simple but really effective.
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I like Never Always Sometimes the most.
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I really like that one as well; especially the color combination and the fact that it’s simple but really catches your eye.
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It was a hard one! If it had been classrooms or schools, I found several books with school buildings on the cover. You did good though, I like the Adi Alsaid one!
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I think school buildings is one of the next themes, so you’ll be able to use those soon. 😉
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I think set in a classroom was a good idea!
Thanks for joining in last week 🙂
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And thanks for hosting! 🙂
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