At first glance, Victor’s Blessing looks like it might be a romance. Or a ghost story. Or a regional tourism brochure for haunted wetlands. In reality, it’s a full-blown design séance—a tragic attempt to summon emotions through soft gradients, barely-there couples, and a font that screams “wedding RSVP.”
The star of this cover is, presumably, Victor. Unfortunately, Victor has been partially erased by a rogue Photoshop layer mask. Our two lovers hover at the top of the cover like faded memories in a budget perfume ad, gently dissolving into a cotton-candy sunset. It’s unclear whether they’re embracing or merging into one amorphous lace-and-vest blob. Honestly, it feels more like the ghost of a Regency romance cover that wandered in from 1994.
The title font? Victor’s Blessing is typeset in what appears to be Romance Script #7, the kind usually reserved for Valentine’s Day sales at craft stores. It’s elegant in the same way scented toilet paper is elegant—decorative, unnecessary, and trying too hard. The kerning is loose enough to hold a dance recital between letters.
And then, there’s the tagline:
“Sometimes true love comes back to haunt you…”
Romantic? Maybe. Vague? Absolutely. Combined with the semi-transparent couple? It’s giving Casper: The Harlequin Years. Are we dealing with literal ghosts or just figurative emotional baggage? Either way, someone needs to call design therapy.
Let’s not forget the crowning jewel: the Award Finalist 2024 sticker. Just… why? It’s plopped onto the cover like a microwave dinner slapped with a “Family Size” label—oversized, intrusive, and weirdly proud of itself. If the cover is struggling to communicate its identity, this sticker didn’t help—it just added a gold foil band-aid to a design in crisis.
The entire composition looks like it was built in a Canva template titled “Sunset Sadness: Romance or Regret?” and never quite decided which direction to take.
Victor’s Blessing may promise true love, but all we received was ghost torso theater, a font from the dollar bin, and a sunset that swallowed the plot.