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The latest trend in covers--pretty female backs/side of face showing (usually with an intricate tattoo somewhere), with a sword/stake/weapon in one hand--is nice but I'm getting confused with whether I read the book already or not. Especially when there are so many urban fantasy series coming out lately. I'd look at the cover and try to remember whether I've seen it or bought it, and then put the book back on the shelf because I wasn't sure. And of course, when I'm home, I'd forget to check. Repeat vicious cycle.
When they put out a spate of covers that look so similar (like the matchstick running couple with the car headlight in the background), after a while, my brain seems to shut down and my eyes sweep over those books and I tend not to want to read them. Is it psychological? I know what the marketing department is doing by putting out visual similarities like that, but it reminds me of the ice-tea trend. Remember there were freaking 1001 fruity-type ice teas when Snapple was the craze? I like my ice tea, so of course I bought them to try. Some were good and some tasted like they stirred in 10 lbs of sugar in a four ounces of water. They were all packaged to sort of look like Snapple too, with funky labels and names for the tea.
Then, after the initial interest, my brain shut down and when I went to the store, my hand just automatically reached for...the good old-fashion ice tea staple I usually had before the craze. And after a while, those new tasty sweet stuff disappeared. Trend over.
Remember the cover trends of just one body part? The muscular arm with the tattoo, for instance?
I am now going to make a prediction. Next: Sexy tight asses in skimpy briefs/bikinis with tattoos on one cheek. ;-) Oh, and next to a hand holding a stake/gun/sword, so you know what genre it is. Heh.
What cover trend do you remember? Date yourself!
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