Hey readers. I'm sure many bloggers have posted about this subject before, and am still curious as to what readers, bloggers, and authors alike think about this subject. I'm also sure that everyone loves to look at book covers and are always in awe of them. Let's face it, the covers do really sell the book. But what happens when one book cover looks exactly the same from another cover? I was glancing at the giveaways on Goodreads, and surprisingly I ran across a book that I have never heard of, but the cover looked eerily alike from a different popular book. And coincidentally, both books were on the giveaways on a different page. Here's what the first cover looks like:
Now, most of you readers who are in the YA genre are probably having deja vu, because this cover looks exactly like Michelle Zink's A Temptation of Angels:
I've heard that authors usually don't have a say in how their final covers look like, but when it's this similar, don't you think that they should have a say? It's funny that the only thing that's different is the model's eye color and the fact that there is mist on one picture when there isn't mist on the other, and the pendant is cut off in the other picture. Do you as readers and authors, think that it's fair that models are used on the same book twice or even more? Are publishers that lazy to have a different cover that they have to use the same image, and should the publishers be allowed to use the same picture? Let me know what you think :)
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