Cover Wars is a weekly showdown of two beautiful covers. The winner, as voted by you, goes on to face a new cover, and wins bragging rights. This is basically a fun way to discuss what we like in covers.
Last week there was an extremely tight battle between Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times and The Winner's Curse. Both covers spent some time in the lead, but ultimately, The Winner's Curse was victorious. This week, The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski has a new challenge: Perfect Ruin by Lauren DeStefano.

Both covers are highly dramatic with dark covers. Perfect Ruin is a little more detailed, but it draws you in to that gorgeous title font. The Winner's Curse also has some cool font effects with the cover girl delicately holding on to the 'r'. Both covers are beautiful, but only one cover will win. 

Which cover do you prefer? Which cover should win Cover Wars? You have a week to vote, starting... now!

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Which cover should win Cover Wars?
	Perfect Ruin
	The Winner's Curse
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The Chemical Gardens Trilogy -Lauren DeStefano

Release Date: March 22, 2011

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Age Group: Young Adult

Buy the Book: Amazon
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By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children. When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can’t bring herself to hate him as much as she’d like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband’s strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?

Together with one of Linden's servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts to escape just before her seventeenth birthday. But in a world that continues to spiral into anarchy, is there any hope for freedom?

Synopsis and cover taken from Goodreads.  

Why It's Awesome:

- Great dystopian series with a very original idea.

- Comparable to In Time (the Justin Timberlake movie).

- Polygamy.

- Awesome covers that correspond with the story!

- Gripping and suspenseful.

- Features one of the evillest antagonists yet. A YA, Dr.Frankenstein.


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