2018: The Ugly

Time to make fun of all the ugly book covers I read this year! A bunch of these already showed up on The Bad list(^), but one is from The Good(*)! You can’t judge a book by its cover, I guess. But I will still judge these covers themselves hardcore. Here they are in the order I read them:

Kodiak’s Claim (Kodiak Point #1) by Eve Langlais


Grizzly bear shapeshifter romance novel!!

Outfoxed by Love (Kodiak Point #2) by Eve Langlais


This romance novel is about A MOOSE SHAPESHIFTER!!! Dreams come true

Polar Bared (Kodiak Point #3) by Eve Langlais


Polar bear shapeshifters seem kind of whatever after the moose one, right? Don’t worry, next up:

Caribou’s Gift (Kodiak Point #3.5) by Eve Langlais


CARIBOU SHAPESHIFTER CHRISTMAS ROMANCE NOVEL!

Nearly Dead by Brendan P. Myers


^A satellite image of the setting? Try harder, Brendan.

The Battle Begins: The Story of Creation by Caleb Seeling


^Kids like comic books, right? This is clearly the best way to make theology appealing to kids, right?

The Sea King (Weathermages of Mystral #2) by C.L.Wilson


The main character is basically Aquaman, and all I asked of this book was for him to solve a problem by talking to a whale. And this book delivered.

My Wild Irish Dragon by Ashlyn Chase


^Mythological creatures fighting fires! But they can’t fight the fire… in their hearts.

The Winter King (Weathermages of Mystral #1) by C.L.Wilson


lol I mean look at it

The Geek Girl and the Scandalous Earl


^I guess most of these shitty romance novels are on par with each other.

Geek Girls Don’t Date Dukes by Gina Lamm


^This series tried a LITTLE harder than Kodiak Point, but barely.

Color Me Murder by Krista Davis


^Still mad at this cover for tricking me into thinking this was a coloring book

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman


This one is on here because the book was really good! And the cover is really not.

Darker by ELJames


^I guess ELJames is so successful she doesn’t even have to try anymore? This cover is worse than Kodiak Point, tbh

Unpunished by Charlotte Gilman


^What am I even looking at, Charlotte

The Aquiliad by S.P.Somtow


This cover is bad, but it also perfectly encapsulates this book.

…And the Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer


*This book was way better than the boring cover implied!

Dragon Pact by Mac Flynn


^A lot of bare man-chests on this list this year, huh

The Mystery of the Purple Pool by Gertrude Warner


It’s so amazingly 80s, I kind of love it.

The Space Between Us by Brenna Yovanoff


^Melodramatic af

Previously: 2018: The Bad
Next: 2018: The Pretty

One response to “2018: The Ugly”

  1. How have I never heard of the Aquiliad, with a cover like that

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