Reddit reviews How to Stop Being Insecure: Learn How to Overcome Emotional and Relationship Insecurity

I was looking for something else and found this. When I think about it, his control-freak tendencies might actually stem from feelings of insecurity and loss of control.

Tl;dr: I like this version a hell of a lot better than the last one and think it's a step in the right direction, but I'd use a different background pic (less cloud coverage) and/or brighten up that red just to make it contrast in a way that will serve your thumbnail image better. Otherwise, the layout is great.

I think it looks worlds better, but I have two questions:

1. Why are you going with such a gloomy feel? Your last one was black with white text, and this one has heavy cloud coverage on the front of it. It seems like your subject matter is the secret to a happy life—why would you want to associate that with gray skies?I mean, I get that yours is a tough love approach, but I feel like there are better ways to convey that. One of your competitors, for example, uses the imagery of a sunrise rather than gray clouds to symbolize the dawning of new thought and the rise of hope. Fat Girl Truths, also a tough-love self-help book, uses a brighter color scheme despite the fact that it's using a negative word like "fat" right off the bat. Yours shouldn't be as brightly colored as that last example, but I found both books by looking through the "also boughts" portion of your Amazon page, meaning this is what people bought in addition to your book. This is what they're looking for.
   
   
2. Why such a muted red for "secret?" It doesn't stand out against the gray clouds and is hard to read in the thumbnail version since it kind of blends in due to the gradient effect.
   
   Also, now that I look at it a fourth time, nix the gray "TO." Make it white like the rest of the text. Gray on gray doesn't work and it seems out of place since the rest of the text is strictly white and red. Have you considered faint drop shadows behind your text to see if that helps it pop, too?

https://www.amazon.com/How-Stop-Being-Insecure-Relationship-ebook/dp/B00HQNE1RM