Ever wondered what happens when your book cover accidentally renders as a filename in a broken Dropbox sync? Enter: _SHIFT, the debut in what we assume is a sci-fi series and not a productivity app tutorial.
Right out of the gate, the underscore in the title begs the question: Is this the book’s name a forgotten placeholder, or the last thing the designer typed before rage-quitting Photoshop?
The backdrop is what happens when you max out the saturation in MidJourney and hope the sunset distracts from the terrain generated entirely from leftover “Mars colony” presets. Bold move to set your multi-dimensional thriller on the surface of a Mars bar, but here we are.
And don’t get me started on the bathroom gender icon slapped on it as well!
And the font? Oh, the font. It’s typewriter-adjacent, whisper-thin, and reads like the quiet sigh of someone who just realized their cover is due in four minutes. There’s nothing like a thriller where even the title looks too timid to commit.
Then there’s the subtitle:
“A SciFi Thriller of Multiple Dimensions.”
…which sounds less like a high-octane pitch and more like the author’s answer to “What’s your book about?” after three espressos and a nap.
Final verdict:
SHIFT happens. Just not here.