A cover that truly answers the age-old question: What if you gave a teenager a pirated version of Photoshop and an energy drink?
Behold, “Princess of Lightning and Prophecy,” the first in the Lukera Realm Series, a title that already sounds like it came from a fantasy name generator. But forget the name — let’s talk about that face. The princess looks like a paper doll that got left in the rain and reassembled by someone who’s never seen a human before. One eye appears to be halfway through defecting to another face, and her lips are frozen mid-emoji.
And then there’s the lightning — or is it yarn? Spaghetti? Cosmic worms? Whatever it is, it’s purple, and it’s everywhere. It adds a mystical aura of “please, just stop.”
Font choices? Bold. Gothic. Conflicted. The title screams “medieval fantasy,” but the subtitle goes full PowerPoint default. You can almost hear the Windows XP startup chime when you look at it.
If the prophecy was “a cover so bad it becomes iconic,” well — mission accomplished.