Jan 9, 2026 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Welcome to the tangled underbrush of fantasy cover design, where The Map by Sharon Robb-Chism plants its flag, lights it on fire, and then forgets where it put the matches. If this cover is meant to be our guide through an epic journey,...
Jan 9, 2026 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads If you’ve ever wondered what it would look like if a Lisa Frank folder collided with a fantasy novel generator and then exploded inside Photoshop, Whispers of the Elixir is your answer. It’s like someone tried to whisper magic into...
Jan 8, 2026 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads There’s epic fantasy, and then there’s Wings of Splendor, a cover that appears to have mistaken quantity for quality and spectacle for design. This isn’t a scene so much as a visual traffic jam, where every fantasy cliché showed up early,...
Jan 8, 2026 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Welcome to another entry in the swirling, glitter-strewn vortex of questionable design choices. Today’s offender: Lessons from the Beastly University Faculty, a cover that attempts “whimsical fantasy” but lands somewhere between...
Jan 7, 2026 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Imagine a hacker thriller. Now imagine a patriotic memoir. Now imagine a small-town tech drama set inside a denim vortex. Smush them all together, sprinkle in some red-white-and-blue glitter, and you’ve got Born Again American: Megan—a...
