Cover Loving: International Editions

We are all cover lovers here. It's like the icing on top of the cake to have a pretty cover along with an awesome book. But the cherry on top of the icing is when a cover not only has a great cover in your region but also international ones. I love icing and cherries on top of my cake. (I know, I'm a cheese ball.)

Some awesome international cover of books we know and love:

Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo
This is the more well known cover, I believe it's the North American cover. I really like this one. It's interesting to both genders and it tells you that it's set in Russia with the russian architecture on the cover
German                               United Kingdom

As for the German one, I like how it's like a water painted canvas. I'm not too fond of the colour though and I wouldn't have minded if there was more going on around the borders or in the background. The cover is pretty minimalistic.

Winner: North American

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

I don't actually like the North American cover for this one. It just doesn't do anything to make me want to read the book. Apparently she is the daughter of smoke and bone, but neither are present.

UK                                    German

I like these too cover much more.The UK cover is very bright with the red arch door. I love the handprint on the wall and how the base of the door the colour is going off. It's a cover that makes you want to stop and study it closely.

The German cover much more preferable over the NA one. I like the city being show in the bottom, the colours are more vibrant, and the girls face is nice with some mysterious white blue eyes and blue hair.

Winner: UK

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

This cover is breathtaking. I love how the eye is decorated with trees and a waterfall, very creative and captivating.

Polish                                      Czech

Tahereh Mafi is one lucky girls. Not only does she have some an epic North American cover but she is multiple fantastic international cover. Ahh! I chose these two from an initial 6 or so covers.

Lets start with the Polish cover. 

Likes: 
  • Font: It's big, it's attractive and it meshes well with the cover.
  • The girls hand on the glass, shattering it. This is probably the first cover that is more relevant to the book, as those of you who have read the book would know. I like that in a cover.
Dislikes:
  • Her face. Putting models faces into covers is a risk as they tend to clash with our pre-imagined image of the character. This one clashes with mine and I don't like it.
Czech Cover

Likes:
  • The girls face. Yes, thank you it looks much better. I kind of imagined Julia to look like Tahereh kind of and that model looks like Tahereh to me, I like it.
  • Colour scheme, it's nothing special but I like it.
  • The diamond thing-a-majig. 
Dislikes: NOTHING

Winner: Czech, I just like that model way better!


I wish I could speak all these languages so I could justify buying these beautiful editions. But alas, I cannot so I'll settle with sharing them with you!

Which Are Your Favourites?

-MARI

10 comments:

  1. For sure the UK covers of the DOSAB trilogy are the best. We adoooooore them.

    Agree that the US covers for SHADOW AND BONE win, although that German cover is gorgeous too.

    Isn't it fun to see them all side by side and think about how different cultures interpret the stories and titles? Someone should start a Tumblr of this...

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    1. It is awesome! I was blown away with the ones for Shatter Me because there were so many editions, so many cultures. I would love a tumblr of this :)

      -Mari

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  2. Gorgeous! Really gorgeous covers. I think my favourites are the German covers and the Czech of Shatter Me. Thanks for sharing!

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    1. Same here, I was blown away by some of them. And no problem, glad you liked them :)

      -Mari

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  3. Even though I like the UK cover of DOSB better, I love the US cover for DOBS (the sequel). So awesome. Also, the US cover of DOSB, while not THAT pretty, does have relevance to the story, so I'd say it's acceptable haha.

    And the US Shadow and Bone and Shatter Me are the best! I especially love those Shatter Me series covers- So. Dang. Pretty.

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    1. I haven't read the books so I base my judgement on the appeal but I'm sure you're right.

      Yes, Shadow and Bone and Shatter Me are two really lucky books. They have pretty covers everywhere :)

      -Mari

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  4. I love to see the international covers of books. I have seen some of them, but the one I didn't know about until now is the Czech cover of Shatter me... it's stunning!
    Thanks for sharing them! :)
    Lis @ The reader lines

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    1. Glad you liked it. I also came up on the Czech and Polish covers while surfing around trying to write this post. Now I wonder what other beautiful cover the Czechs have.

      -Mari

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  5. I actually really like the German version of Shadow and Bone but in general I'm pretty happy with the American covers we have.

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    1. I agree with you. That's a cover you can't really complain about though it would be nice if we could have both :)

      -Mari

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