You should stop judging books by their covers.

Asked by Anonymous

No, I don’t think I should.

It can be a negative if someone dismisses a book purely because of its cover, but I don’t do that. It may give me a (yes, sometimes negative) first impression of a book but I’ll always read the description, read reviews and think about it more before I decide. I’ll never refuse to read a book based on its cover. However, I’ve also picked up a book I probably wouldn’t have noticed before or chosen to read because of the cover (e.g. Sister stood out to me because of its cover. I originally came across this novel on a website with just the book covers showing. If I hadn’t judged the book by its cover, I’d have never clicked on it and read about it, I’d had never bought, and I’d wouldn’t be recommending it to everyone now).

Everybody judges a book by its cover, whether they admit it or not. If I posted a book twice and said I loved it, with one of the covers looking similar to Twilight, and another similar to Ender’s Game, they’d most likely get very different book lovers interested in it.

Anyway, you really shouldn’t be surprised that I’m heavily influenced by the visual aspect of books considering I run a blog called “Pretty Books” :)