This is just something I do for my own amusement. I try and do this meme every Wednesday (when I remember) but didn’t have the time last week. But the whole point of Judge a Book By Its Cover is.. well, we do whether we mean to or not. When you’re at the book store and you’re going up and down the aisles, what makes you stop and look at a book? The cover, right? Well – it does, for me!
The cover I plan on discussing this week belongs to the book Ferris Beach by Jill McCorkle (ISBN: 1565129318):
I liked the cover of this book when I saw it, which contributed to my request to review it. I thought it looked like a fresh and easy read, maybe heartwarming with a hint of childhood nostalgia. Although I didn’t quite get how Ferris Beach had anything to do with a Blue background with white stars – but maybe it was a childhood doodle, trying to capture a memory of hers.
I felt that this American version cover of Ferris Beach had almost a Napoleon Dynamite type feel to it. So when the description below the title and above the author indicated that it was funny, I really would expect based on the bright colors and child-like writing that it would be exactly that.
Now, how does this cover not quite fit with the over all feel of the book, now that I have read it? I think the cover is all wrong in representing the book itself. I would say the book was a rather dark coming of age story about a shy, insecure girl in an average friendship. The dynamics between all families involved (neighbors included) were anything but funny. I am not sure if I would have even called it Ferris Beach as it has little to do with actually being at Ferris Beach but only in mentioning of it.. but that is just me.
Overall – the cover is a very cute, inviting cover (in my opinion) but unfitting for the story itself.
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