A Fifth Magic is a dark fantasy novel set in a fractured post-civil-war society where magic is both feared and tightly controlled. Detective Michael Hawthorne enlists the help of sceptical academic Laura Blythe to investigate a locked-room murder mystery that mirrors the methods of a war criminal they believed to be long dead.
Nathan says:
There’s one big problem: It’s too murky. There’s not enough color or contrast to catch the eye of a browser who sees the cover in thumbnail in a string of other cover thumbnails.
Fortunately, fixing that is super-easy — barely an inconvenience! Thirty seconds of playing with levels and saturation gave me this:
It’s not anything like a final version, but it gives you an idea of the possibilities once you look at the artwork and say, “How can I make this more arresting?”
Other comments?
Not much to add to what Nathan has said: increase the contrast and saturation in the artwork.