Urban Fantasy Book Cover Parade

Have you seen the cover of a paranormal or urban fantasy novel lately. Do they all seem similar? Here is a book cover parade to illustrate - all in fun.

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[L33TNINJ4Grrl]

I've always wondered how twilight managed to attract so many readers even though it wasn't the 1st urbanized vampire romance novel. Now I can see the covers of most V.R's have all that, bareback, tattoo, weapon, moon, mombo jumbo, But twilight's cover takes a simpler approach with an apple in hand. Say what you will but EVERYONE judges a book by its cover.

[fatalrob0t]

oh for the love of God! He's just pointing out the similarities in covers, you idiot.

[Kristie Nyarko Koranteng]

omg i read marked book one im 200000000000000000000000000000 stars up im im blown away

[King LEE]

after the third I started to get irritated

[PorSiempre333]

Or, as the guys formerly known as Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (currently of Rifftrax) put it, "coldly calculated to pander to your shrieking demographic."

[PorSiempre333]

Take into consideration that all of these books are of the Romance- Urban fantasy/ shitty vampire novels variety. You never see this cover on books by Simon R. Green, Jim Butcher, or Rob Thurman. In my expeiance, those covers often indicate a rather useless female protagonist and a cheap romance plot that gets in the way of the monsters and gun fights. With the notable exception of Libba Bray, in which case, the cover is directly linked to the plot (and is historical fantasy, not UF).

[TheMercuriansSeries]

So you are against moons tattoos and looking over the left and right shoulder. What exactly do you WANT on the cover of a paranormal romance which usually depicts from old legends, the moons, the symbolisms, which in todays world are transferred into the form of tattoos and dark and skirts. They can only wear skirts of trousers they only got two shoulders to look over, or did we want to see the back of someones head. What do YOU want to see on the cover of a 'paranormal/urban/fantasy romance?

[epiphoney]

What about all the tattooed half naked men book covers?

[aeckstut]

This really gave me a laugh. Thanks so much for putting this together. It's hysterical!!!

[kebri]

Wow, that is kinda funny and very true :)