In contrast, the cover art for the 2017 edition of Underground Airlines has a completely different look and feel to it. The blurb on the cover says, “A topflight thriller that’s as emotionally searing and tragically plausible as anything in contemporary fiction.” - Lev Grossman, Author of The Magicians. I was expecting an upsetting novel, an emotional roller coaster type of story. Maybe this is a book about planes, or slavery, or slavery on a plane-but there’s a man on the cover, so it’s probably not going to be about women. When I saw this cover, I assumed this was a book written for a male audience. The typeface used for the title isn’t attention-grabbing. There’s an anonymous male face on the cover with the outline of an airplane obscuring the details. It’s an interesting and totally unique cover, but it doesn’t make me want to randomly pick this book up and take it home with me. I received a copy of this book with the 2016 cover from my local library. I read a lot of chick lit, young adult, and non-fiction books. It didn’t have the right curb appeal for me. Winters, it didn’t look like a book I would be interested in. I know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, or title, but when I when I first saw the novel Underground Airlines by Ben H.
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