Nothing says “Christmas spirit” quite like a pair of ghostly lovers hovering ominously over a log cabin like they’re haunting a snow globe. Welcome to The Christmas Wish in Twinkle Falls, a cover that took a sleigh ride straight into the uncanny valley—and crashed into every design crime along the way.
Let’s begin with the floating heads. Are they in love? Are they dead? Are they trapped in a vaporous alternate dimension of holiday regrets? No one knows. But they’ve been airbrushed into a soft mist so aggressively, we half expect them to whisper, “O come, O come, unfinished Photoshop layers.” Their lighting doesn’t match anything else on the cover, as if someone tried to summon Hallmark spirits with a cracked version of Microsoft Paint.
Now descend to the cabin—an otherwise cozy winter lodge, if it weren’t for the blizzard of clipart crowding the lawn. Behold: two suspiciously emotionless cats staring into your soul, a snowman that looks like it was built with leftover potatoes, and a red bow slapped onto the title like it’s holding this entire cover together with festive duct tape.
Speaking of the title, it’s a jigsaw puzzle of fonts and formatting chaos. “The” is awkwardly shoved off to the side like a forgotten gift tag. “Christmas Wish” is in two completely different styles and placements, with “Wish” plunked across the roof in a way that looks less magical and more like an attempt to repair a leak. And let’s not forget “in Twinkle Falls” just loitering there, like it accidentally wandered onto the wrong project and decided to stay.
And oh, the bows in the corners! If you ever wondered what it would look like if clipart decorations tried to be page borders, wonder no more. They add exactly zero charm, but they do add visual noise—which, judging by the rest of this design, may have been the point.
This cover didn’t just miss the mark—it missed the sleigh, the reindeer, and the chimney entirely. It’s a North Pole fever dream rendered in free assets and unchecked enthusiasm.
If this is the wish, we’d like to speak to the elves responsible.