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Sarah J. Maas Book Cover Redesigns
If people want them, I can make these into mobile/desktop wallpapers for patrons. See below for Patreon link.
Recently, it was revealed that Maas’ ACOTAR book covers got a redesign.
No offense to the designer - because I try not to go out of my way to publicly bash someone’s design work that they spent time on - but I’m not alone in saying that those covers aren’t the greatest.
From a design standpoint, the colors clash too heavily with the tone of the stories. While bright colors can be fun, they don’t match the books they represent. (Not to mention the color combo on the grey hardback covers is almost hard to read because they appear less bright and look washed out.)
Maas seems to lean more on Eastern-esque art influences for reprints lately, and it’s honestly very confusing. Given the settings and characters, these do not work for the stories inside. If these covers had an updated color palette and were used for an Asian-inspired story, I think they’d be better because the illustrations are beautiful. But they’re just not ACOTAR.
I’ve made my own minimalist book covers for A Court of Thorns and Roses and A Court of Mist and Fury.
Yes I have my watermark on them. No I won’t remove them.
The original designer attempted to do a minimal look, but they didn’t take advantage of the iconography and setting these books offered for a truly illustrative and still minimal set of covers.
Stay tuned for when I do ACOWAR and ACOFAS next!
Interested in seeing more of my design work? Join my Patreon where I create mobile and desktop wallpaper sets throughout the month for all $3 patrons. Right now, it’s Animal Crossing inspired. :)
Rereading 'A court of thorns and roses' after a year for research related purposes🤪- part 1
Feyre was in her flop era babes
WAIT WHY DO I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO RECOLLECTION OF THIS CHARACTER HE'S NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN😭
Feyre so humble and selfless you guys she's not like other girls frrr
Omg it's almost like- like the wolf and the doe are a METAPHOR for the power dynamic between Feyre and Tamlin🤔
GROWL??? RHYSAND IS THAT YOU??🤨🤨
Elain's literally so annoying like honeybear why don't you grow some vegetables or something🥰
okay *Tamlin shows up*
This bargain makes no sense to me like i know there's some bigger stuff going on but this is the equivalent of "you killed my bestie? well now you have to suffer living with me☺"
PROTECT NESTA AAAHHHH
Lucien was actually my favorite character in the first book he's the only one with a personality 💀
How to get the girl 101 with Tamlin😎
Ayyo how are we all forgetting the women's rights movement of 2021 when our feminist icon rhysand chose not to tell his very pregnant wife that the birth would 100% kill her🤨🤨
He pretty much went around battling misogyny with his mountain shaking roars y'all could never-