Friday 20 March 2020

Covers in the World: Strange the Dreamer

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English covers 1:
I believe these are the American covers. I quite like them! Unfortunately the edition I got isn't fantastically shiny like I was lead to believe from the pictures. Nonetheless I like them a lot and they do stand out in a crowd.

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English covers 2:
The UK covers? These seem to be popular with the people, but I think they're a bit dull in comparison with the American covers. I see the appeal, though. These are modern, classy, and somehow sleek. I like the colours, but things could be improved.

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English covers 3:
Soft and gentle! This can be said about this third cover option for the books in English. Are they are good as the previous options? No, in my opinion. Are they kinda cute? Yeah. Since I haven't read the books yet, I can't say whether they fit the contents, but if they do that's a big plus for these covers.

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Italian covers:
I like the layering of these covers. They keep the original style of the UK covers but manage to do their own thing.

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Polish covers:
The font is a bit meh and the composition makes me think of trippy middle grade fantasy. Not a huge fan, though it's not a complete failure.

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Turkish covers:
These colours are pleasant to look at and I like the composition. The font could be a bit more "mature"/serious, if you get what I mean. This one feels like a contemporary romance novel set on a beach.

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Spanish covers:
What happened!? We went from original nice cover to possession by the devil! Not sure what to think about this. It could be worse. Don't like it.

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Croatian covers:
Nice interpretation of the UK covers. Not a fan of the patchy background, though.

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Indonesian covers:
Very cute and dreamy! At first glace it certainly doesn't make me think of the novel it's supposed to be the cover for, though. I guess the only way to find out if this fits the novel is to actually read the novel... *sigh* ;)

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Hungarian covers:
I get "The Darkest Minds" and "Carve the Mark" vibes from these covers. Unfortunately they don't appeal to me. Just too plain and generic.

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Hebrew covers:
Very similar to the UK covers, but a little different. Not changed for the better.

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Serbian covers:
I think the re-spelling of Laini Taylors name as "Lejni Tejlor" is pretty funny (at least it sounds funny to my Swedish speaking brain). Sadly, that's the only thing that makes me smile on the inside when I look at these covers.

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Norwegian covers 1:
Would you look at that! Two covers coming together to form and single image. That's always a winning trick with me. Other than that, I think these covers are quite okay. Nothing grand, but the detailing is nice.

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Norwegian covers 2:
Translated to Norwegian Bokmål, these covers don't match like the others :/ They both use the same butterfly, but it just doesn't come together as well.

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German covers:
Did Laini Taylor publish another two books in the series just in German? No, the Germans just decided to split each book in two. Don't worry, I don't think we're missing any exclusive content here. The covers are unfortunately a bit bland compared to what we've seen before in this post. They're certainly not ugly, just a lil' bit boring.

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