Book Covers – Rant

In my extensive experience, you should almost always judge a book by its cover. If I saw a book with a gruesome, gory cover, I wouldn’t expect it to be a sweet fluffy romance. When I see a cover with swords and dragons, I don’t expect contemporary fiction set in urban New York. Why do people even think that way?

I almost never read dark romances except when they delve into more psychological sides of romance like inferiority complexes and other conditions. The last one I picked up had a ‘dark’ cover. The posture of the models and the design implied a power imbalance and maybe some partner worship. I went to the reviews and readers were bashing the main characters for their toxicity. They were meant to be toxic; the whole premise of the book was that they were toxic for each other but couldn’t leave, making more sacrifices for each other.

Anyway, these are my thoughts. Thanks for listening.