This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is: Frequently Used Words In [Insert Genre/Age Group] Titles. I couldn’t do a thing with that one! So, I’m doing my own thing this week–which is allowed.
I really get annoyed by copy-cat cover! Like the marketing people think I’m so stupid I’ll buy the wrong book? Or, since I loved one book with that cover then I’d gladly buy a second with it? Right…… NOT!
This cover, for the best-seller, Tigers in Red Weather, is the first I noticed in this particular chain of copy-cat covers. For the record, the book did little for me:
Tigers in Red Weather: A Novel by Liza Klaussman Kept waiting for something worthy of the hype. Nothing “wrong” with the story, just not that original or exciting either. Stupid names for characters always put me off, too, and a woman named “Nick” in the 1940s?? Oh please. [From my old blog, August 27, 2012.]
The Two Newest Books Copying the Cover
Since I couldn’t come up with anything for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic, here are the other nine covers, starting wtih two brand new books. Ironically, they were both coverd in this recent Beach Reads post at Book Bub.
See the similarities? It isn’t always a complete copy–maybe just an element of the original. In these two books one has the style of bathing suit and they both have stripes which mimick the subtle “stripes” of the stitching in hat and the spines of the parasols in the original. FYI: I’ll likely listen to The Husband Hour. I’m a sucker for a guy named Rory!
Here are the others:
And, yes, you’ve a good eye! One is by the same author as The Husband Hour!
Do you like the idea of copy cat covers? Leave me a comment with your thoughts!
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Copy cat covers can be annoying. I know a lot of them in romance are due to the use of stock photos. I can’t blame authors for using them. As for the ones above, they don’t bug me. They all seem perfect for the title, theme, and era. I get why it would bug you, though.
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“Bug” me doesn’t me detest. And, I do truly understand about stock images, lol. Really just meant this as fun. Thanks for stopping by!
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I love your own thing this week.. I did the same. Wow! Those all look so similar. I’ve never really noticed that before. I guess, a lot of books I read are fantasy and not many of them seem similar. Although, I kind of want to go through my book shelf now!!
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Please do your own post of covers you find! SO fun to do.
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I will have to do that!!
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Love this idea for a topic! I do like a few of these covers, but agree that the copy-cat phenomenon in publishing is incredibly annoying.
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Wow. A lot of books seem to be obsessed with beach and summer.
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Wow! That’s crazy! All of those covers could easily have been for the same book! Marketing people…pshhh!
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Yep! I just saw one today that may start another post. Different book, but it’s getting very common–like this one.
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Thank you!
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Great post! I do notice a lot of copy-cat covers (and titles…thanks, Gone Girl on a Train), but I don’t mind it with these beach books. I love the retro look, and I’ll buy just about any book that has Nantucket, beach house or island in the blurb. Several of these are on my shelves already.
I may have bought Tigers in Red Weather mainly for the cover…
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The cover of Tigers IS why I picked it–I don’t chose them that way often, but in this case I did. I wasn’t that taken with it.
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