Question of the Week: Do you Judge a book by it's cover?

The "Monday's Question of the Day" is a weekly meme done by Eleni at La Femme Readers. On Monday she asked:

Question: Do you judge a book by its cover? If so, was there a time where you read an amazing book that didn't have an appealing cover?

My Answer: Yes!!! All the time! I don't read a book unless it has a nice cover, that is how I buy them. The weird thing about it is, even book that have been recommended to me as being awesome and completely up my alley, some I hated the covers, and although I didn't prejudge I ended up hating or at least really disliking some of the books. If I can't connect with the cover I know I won't like the book.

 The cover doesn't even have to be visually loud or even appealing. Look at Vampire Academy, to be perfectly honest, I think the covers are a bit dark and nothing overly special BUT when I first saw them I had to have them, something about them just spoke to me and I couldn't resist buying the first three books in the series. The cover doesn't have to be breathtakingly beautiful, I just need to connect with it on some level.

 Then you have Twenties Girl, the back blurb wasn't overly appealing to me, but it was something about the cover, for four weeks I walked into the same shop to see that book staring me in the face and on the last day of my trip I bought it, and loved it.

Iron King is an example of a beautiful cover, but one that I couldn't connect with. Everything about this cover should draw me in like an insect to light. It is absolutely gorgeous, but even now as I look at it, after having read it...meh. It just doesn't do anything for me.

Beautiful Creatures is a good example of a recommendation gone wrong. Everyone says to read it that it is fantastic. Whole websites have been dedicated to it! Even when I bought it, I didn't really know why. The cover does nothing for me, neither did the book.

So there is my answer to the question of the covers. What's yours?