Aug 17, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Ah yes, Yesterday’s Murder, the perfect title for a book whose cover looks like it was designed by someone who just discovered free trial stock photo downloads and thought, “Yeah, this one screams homicide.” We open with the classic “sad...
Aug 13, 2025 | Horrible Covers
If microbes really see the world like this, then we owe them an apology — not for our hygiene habits, but for this cover. Imagine Earth as a giant game board populated exclusively by gender-neutral restroom signs, all frozen mid-fall. Hovering above them? Two massive...
Aug 12, 2025 | Horrible Covers
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if a romance novel cover took a long, luxurious bath in bleach, A Lady’s Lessons by Liza Friend is your answer. The art style is a faint, pastel watercolor wash that whispers “Paris” but screams “printer ran out of ink.” Our...
Aug 9, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads When a Book Cover Picks a Fight With Your Eyeballs: The Tip of Your Sword There are some book covers that whisper seductively from the shelf: “Come hither, reader, and discover my secrets.” Then there’s The Tip of Your Sword, which leaps...
Aug 8, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Welcome back to Horrible Covers, the place where ambition meets Photoshop disaster. This week, we’re inspecting a DIY-level business book cover that claims to teach builders how to scale smarter—but its design screams “cheap motivational...
