Usually, if it is not a book I am already looking for, the cover is what will catch my eye. A lot of the times, how the covers looks gives you a pretty good indication of what type of book it is. While the actual illustration on the cover can hint as to what the book is about, I tend to look more at what the style of the cover is. From previous experience, what style the author/illustrator used for their cover, matches what style the author writes with. For example, The Motorcycle Diaries seems like it is going to be a factual journal-type story because that is the feeling that the picture on the front gives me. One book that caught my attention early and kept it while I was reading was A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. The cover definitely caught my attention, and the title seemed interesting to me.
i agree that the cover has to catch my eye and if it is something that looks like it could be good I will read it, and you are right that the cover usually reveals what the book will be about and what type of book it will be
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