Never Judge A Book by It's Cover

Hey Everyone! Today I am going to do a blog post that I've had in mind for a while called Never Judge A Book by it's Cover. Now I know we have all herd this saying before, and if we are keeping this topic specifically related to books, then I'm sure I'm not the only one who has ever picked up a book because I was drawn to the cover of it. I've picked up so many books with beautiful covers that I ended up not liking. And this also goes the other way as well. I've been reluctant to pick up some books because of their 'ugly' covers, but I've found with a lot of them that once I did read them they were ones that I really enjoyed. See, never judge a book by its cover. Anyways, onto the actual point of this blog post. I'm going to list 5 books that had ugly covers that I ended up loving, and I'm going to post 5 books with beautiful covers that I ended up not enjoying. Sounds fun right?

Books with Not so pretty covers:

1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Before I read these books, I was really reluctant because the whole concept of the book sounded really strange to me. On top of that, I was always turned off by the covers because I always thought they looked really boyish or masculine. After I read them though, I did not mind the covers and I actually really like them now, especially the cover for Mockingjay.

2. Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz. This cover has fish hooks and fish scales on it. Not pretty. This story however is very uniquely strange and it's one that I enjoyed.

3. The Vampire Diaries and The Secret Circle series by L.J. Smith. I listed both these series in here because their covers look very similar. I've always hated the covers for these books for some reason. I don't know why but the faces on them are weird to me and I don't like the writing on the covers. Actually I just recently purchased all of the Secret Circle books and I ended up getting the ones with the newer cover versions and I like them much better.

4. Bad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender. It's not that I don't like this cover, it's just really creepy. First off, this is a ghost book and I'm always really reluctant to read ghost stories because they scare the crap out of me. It took me forever to pick this one up even though I wanted to read it for years. Every time I went to the bookstore and seen it, I basically cringed away from it's creepiness. LOL.









5. Evernight series by Claudia Gray. This is actually a series that I purchased because a few of the books were on amazon for really cheap so I thought I'd try them. I ended up really enjoying them but I don't care for the covers. I think the colors are kind of loud and too much, and I don't necessarily like the girls face on them either.








Books with Beautiful Covers that I did not enjoy: (so deceiving)


1. Wither by Lauren DeStefano. OK first I want the say that I didn't exactly dislike this book. I actually enjoyed it okay and would someday like to finish the series. BUT for how freaking beautiful this book cover is, the book does not add up to it at all. This is probably one of my favorite book covers of all time and the picture doesn't even do it justice.








2. Entwined by Heather Dixon. This is another one that I didn't really dislike or like. I enjoyed it but it was just okay. This is another cover that is really beautiful that the story isn't as great as the cover.









3. Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin. This cover is really beautiful. It's even more beautiful in person than in the picture. But I really, really hated this book. I rarely will say that about a book, but this one I did not like one bit. End of story.







4. The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kittredge. This was a book that I didn't even finish. I made it probably half way or a little more and just couldn't read anymore. I tried really, really hard and was a little disappointed that I didn't like it. I really love the cover though because it's so dark and just beautiful.










5. Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer. This is another one that I didn't finish. I was really disappointed because I loved Nightshade and I loved the cover for that one, too. I thought the cover to Wolfsbane was really beautiful.










This is all for my Never Judge a Book by it's Cover post. I know it was kind of random, but I hope you all enjoyed and thanks for reading!

Movie Trailers: Catching Fire and City of Bones Trailer #2

Hey Everyone! Today I am going to share the movie teaser trailer for Catching Fire and the 2nd trailer that was released for City of Bones. I am so excited for both of these movie and I was completely ecstatic when I watched the one for Catching Fire this morning. Over the weekend I was going to watch the City of Bones trailer and I saw that there was a new one out and I was really excited about that too because it explains more of the story in this trailer than the first one. These are two of my all time favorite book series so I really cannot wait for these movies!

Catching Fire Trailer 

This movie looks like it might be better than the first one! ;) This one will be released in November.

City of Bones Trailer #2

This trailer is a lot more in-depth from the first trailer that is released! This movie will come out in August. 

Thank you all for reading and I hope you enjoyed these trailers! Leave you thoughts on them in the comments below!

Books Worth Reading Twice.

Today I'm going to share with you books that I think are worth reading twice, or rather books that I personally would read twice (or more). I think a book definitely has to be totally amazing for me to read it more than once. A lot of the time when I try to re read a book I will get bored mid way through it, but  there have been a good handful of book that I was just as enthralled reading them the second time as I was the first.

-The Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling. I have read this series so many times I can't even count how many. I've read each book at least 3 times, some of them I've read 4 or 5 times. I just absolutely love everything about Harry Potter. I've been wanting to re read this series again lately so hopefully sometimes this fall/winter I will!

-The Hunger Games by Suzanna Collins. I have only re read the first book in this series before the movie came out and I will definitely be re reading the second and third book as well.

-The Help by Kathryn Stockett. I really loved this book and it's definitely one I will be re reading one day.

-A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray. This is the first book in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy. I've re read the first book and I was still totally amazed by it as I was the first time I read it.

-Divergent by Veronica Roth. I re read this one right before Insurgent came out and I'm glad I did because I couldn't remember some of the end details. I will be re reading Insurgent before the 3rd book comes out.

-The Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead. I've re read the first 3 book in the series and I want to re read them again along with the other series.

-The Pact by Jodi Picoult. This is one of my recent reads but I just loved it so much that I will probably re read it someday.

-Night Road by Kristin Hannah. Another book that I will re read someday again simply because I just loved it so much.

-The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. I have not re read anything in this series but it's one of my favorites so it is one that I will probably re read someday but not anytime in the near future.

-The Outsides by S.E Hinton. This is super random and I forget about this book a lot but I read this one while I was in middle school, and I sware this is the only book I actually enjoyed that they made us read in school. I've already read this one 3 or 4 times but I will probably read it again soon!

I hope everyone enjoyed this post and thank you so much for reading!

What books have you re read or would like to re read?