Title: 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐲 by axelle_grace14
Source: 🅱🅾🅱🅰 🅶🆁🅰🅽🅳 🅰🆆🅰🆁🅳 by iloveboba1stacct
Category: Best Cover
Mature: Y
LGBTQIAP+: N
Status: Ongoing
Special note (rubric): Provided by the awards organizer to the other judge (arrowgig). I pasted it below. Normally, I type feedback for each section of a rubric, but I never received the rubric from the organizer, so I used a modified version of the cover section from my "First Impressions" review when I judged these entries initially, and I typed a full paragraph of feedback from that. When I received the rubric from the other judge, I copied and pasted sections of that into corresponding sections of the new rubric.
Special note (judging): I had 7 books from this category, and arrowgig had 10 books.
Result: 88/100

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Rubric:
- Visual appeal: 20
- Thematic relevance: 20
- Originality and creativity: 20
- Typography and layout: 15
- Overall impact: 15
- Judge's opinion: 10
Total: 100

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Total: 88/100

Visual appeal: 20/20
This is really, really good. I love the effect of the light off to the right, so bright that it drowns out the image in white. The butterfly emerging from that light is great, too.

Thematic relevance: 10/20
I don't get "romance" from this. It makes me think more "general fiction," or maybe even non-fiction, like a biography or autobiography. The grass, the city, the light, the butterfly - I get the feeling these are all aspects of a person's life story.

Originality and creativity: 20/20

Typography and layout: 13/15
I like the font choices, size, placement, all that. The only suggestion I have for improvement would be the title color. Or maybe not the color, maybe the text outline/highlight. It just blends in too well. I know why it's gray - obviously the title says it all - but I think it should stand out a little more. The shading along the right side of the text in the white light is good. I'd like to see more of that on the left. Maybe shading in white instead of black? Or maybe black would be fine. Not sure, just something to make it stand out more.

Overall impact: 15/15

Judge's opinion: 10/10