Ah, Snowed In With Them — the four-book collection you didn’t know you needed, mostly because the cover looks like it was designed by someone who confused “romance anthology” with “PowerPoint template for a corporate HR seminar.”
Let’s start with the main imagery: roses. Not just any roses, but roses entombed in what appears to be frosted glass or possibly the freezer section at Walmart. It’s unclear if these flowers are meant to represent love, death, or a crime scene at a Valentine’s Day sale. Either way, they’ve got that special “I’ve been in the back of the fridge since last February” energy.
The title, SNOWED IN WITH THEM, is aggressively shoved in your face in capital letters, just in case you thought you were snowed in with someone else. But in a daring design twist, the word “WITH” is printed in pale white — the font equivalent of whispering, “I’m not really part of this relationship.” It’s the typographical wallflower of the group.
Then there’s the subtitle, The Series 4 Book Collection. Sexy. Nothing ignites passion like the soulless enumeration of product bundles. I can practically hear a voiceover saying, “Act now and receive not one, not two, but FOUR thrilling titles — batteries not included!”
The cherry on top? The background’s icy texture makes the whole thing feel like the cover itself got stuck in the Arctic tundra, and by the time it thawed out, the designer had already moved on to making flyers for a bake sale.
If this cover were a movie, it would be a slow-burn romance between a snow globe and a used copy of Microsoft Word 2003.