Musing Mondays: Book Covers

Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about book covers (again)…

Do you feel disappointed when the cover’s don’t match the story? Have you ever been completely misled by a book cover?

If you had read my answer to last week's musing, you would have known that I also mentioned about how some covers do not match the stories. So when Rebecca, the hostess of Musing Mondays asked if she could use this subject for the next MM's question, I said yes because I wonder if book covers will influence a buyer to purchase the books at one point, and what happens if that person found out that the cover do not match the story?

For me, I won't buy a book not without reading the book blurb, with the exception of the authors I am familiar with and that I know I will like their books. However, they are also situations that I will buy a book based on the covers itself, for instance, mangas. So have I ever been misled by a book cover? Yes, I do, but not to an extent that it made me think negatively of the book (after all, contents is what most matters). Personally, I think books which featured models tend to have more mixed reactions as compared to other subjects because readers might portray him/her being the characters of the story and it might lead to a misunderstanding or a confusion if their image do not fit the characters. Thus, this is the reason why I do not care about movie tie-in covers as compared to the original covers.

What about you?