Cover Snark: Best of 2019

NB: This week, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite and our most popular pieces of writing this year. We’ve got a week of best-of posts to share, with reviews, cover snark, sales, and more. We hope you enjoy revisiting our archives, and most of all, we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday and a happy new year – with all the very best of reading.

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These are the top five Cover Snark posts of 2019! I’m not sure if it was this year or really last year, but we upped the Cover Snarkage. Instead of once a month, we started doing it twice a month. There is never a shortage of covers to snark and these collections in particular were quite popular.

Let’s see which Snarks reign supreme.

5. Cover Snark Bingo (June 10)

One cover in particular really nails all the usual suspects we’ve come to expect in a good Cover Snark. Bad photoshop. Several distracting font choices. A lake of fire?

Best reader comment is from PamG:

Alpha’s Concubine is not actually a romance but rather a YA dystopian novel about the consequences of rampant, outta control fracking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Cover Snark: Return of the Mullet (July 8)

One hero’s cover mullet cred is called into question, while another reveals the ability to levitate off a staircase. But the true winner of this snark is the magical face seen in one lucky man’s torso.

Best reader comment is from Ren Benton:

I assume the last one is a paranormal because that’s the face of a vampire bat (which is not one of the more attractive bats—sorry your man doesn’t turn into a flying doggo who wraps himself in a stylish leather cape to hang out).

 

 

 

 

 

3. Cover Snark: Chainmail, But Make It Fashion (February 11)

We may have reached the peak of cover snark fashion, with a man in a hoodie paired with a woman who has some chainmail elegantly draped over one shoulder. Watch out, Vogue!

Best reader comment is from cbackson (who became a staff reviewer for us this year!):

I STRONGLY encourage you to read the Amazon page for the Haunting of the Hockomock Swamp (especially the “from the author” note). There’s a lot of WTF going on here:

“Perhaps when your children are haunted and plagued by a mysterious illness, it is not a result of biology or science but a vengeful spirit of the past using your children as a medium for the truth.”

 

 

 

2. Cover Snark: Wait, How Many Babies? (July 29)

This Snark is full of medical mysteries. We have a man with a missing belly button. There’s a woman who had a “sextuplet baby surprise.” And, a woman who may be seconds around from strangling the hero with her own legs.

Best reader comment is from Lisa F:

I’m trying to imagine having enough energy to date around after having six infants puking and peeing on me all day. Oh Romance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Cover Snark: Dr. Nips, Private Practice (August 12)

The Dr. Nips category of romance covers is probably one of my favorite phrases we’ve coined on the site. It’s truly the gift that keeps on giving with seemingly endless covers to snark.

Best reader comment is from Another Kate:

I’m very worried about Dr. Nips… I have a working knowledge of musculoskeletal anatomy (a Physical Therapy degree will do that) and the layers of his abdominal muscles are all wrong. He really ought to see one of his colleagues about that.

 

 

 

And that’s our top five! What do you think? Did you have any Cover Snark favorites this year?