The Design of a Novel's Cover

Havoc (title of book)

The design of the novel's cover was very interesting and attracted me quite a bit. For a background, it was green with pictures of arcs behind the villain, who is on the cover. The cover design was like any other novel I have read which is- Title, Picture, Author- but, I still liked it. The illustration of the villain on the cover was somewhat smooth but also gritty and looked very sinister. There wasn't any imagery except for the arcs on the novel's front cover but the title's font and illustrations made up for it. The font used on Havoc's front cover was tall, wide and white which was used effectively to make me see the book and made me curious to read it.  

The illustration on the cover had won me over and I wanted to read it seeing how cool and evil it looked. I may be over exaggerating but without the illustration, I may have not picked the book at all although the blurb would've still worked on me.

There are many things to making a good front cover. First of all, the cover needs to stand out so it should be colourful and the title needs to be big for everyone to see. As stated before, illustrations help me which books I should choose so all books should have a very impressive and original illustration on their covers. Unappealing front covers are exactly the opposite which have little to no colour, small titles and very poor or no illustrations at all. But after all, this is just my personal opinion.

My classmate (and friend :D) is reading a book called "Ostrich Boys". The front cover has many illustrations on it like roads and coffins and cars. Looking at the cover, my mind would form an impression that the book was about ostriches but when I saw the coffins, I thought to myself, why is that there? The coffins were very small and the eye can pass over it easily but for me, it changed my perspectives about the story. Maybe it was about death ( or dead ostriches) but I couldn't tell. Anyway, the design of the cover was very unique and was overall effective and together with the blurb, most people may want to take a look at it.