The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?

Like we decided a dew weeks ago we will now choose our favorite covers in a genre for the next few editions of ”The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?” and tell you why we chose them. It would be awesome if you could tell us which cover in this genre is your favorite and perhaps we will all find some new to us cover candies we can obsess about.

This week we chose Historical romance covers for our fight…ahem..discussion. This week we chose Historical Romance covers because Caroline is addicted to those and I just started to discover this genre. *wink*

Susi’s picks:

Caroline: When Indiscreet came out last year, I kept seeing this cover everywhere. It was pure torture. I …

The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?

Like we decided in our last installment we will now choose our favorite covers in a genre for the next few editions of ”The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?” and tell you why we chose them. It would be awesome if you could tell us which cover in this genre is your favorite and perhaps we will all find some new to us cover candies we can obsess about.

This week we chose Paranormal Romance covers for our fight…ahem..discussion. It’s one of our favorite genres. Who doesn’t like a vampire here and a shifter there? *wink*

Susi’s Choice:

The Geeky Lover: I have to admit when I started to think about PNR cover I was convinced that this post will be a piece …

The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?

This week we decided to start something new in this post series. We will now each week choose our favorite covers in a genre and tell you why we chose them. It would be awesome if you could tell us which cover in this genre is your favorite and perhaps we will all find some new to us cover candies we can obsess about.

For the first week we chose Urban Fantasy and here are the covers we adore most at the moment:

Caroline’s Choice:

Caroline: The cover for Bone Crossed is one of my favorite UF ever. When I first saw it I think I stared for 2 hours. It’s gorgeous and Mercy looks amazing. The tattoos are again perfect. Seriously I would marry this …

The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?

This week we agreed to do this post a bit different. All this fighting is seriously messing with our Book Lover harmony. Just kidding.  But first, here are the stats of last times’ voting:

Magic BitesGerman: 41 votesChinese: 21 votesUS: 10 votesUk: 4 votesFrench: 2 votes

Magic BurnsGerman: 45 votesUs: 14 votesPolish: 9 votesUK: 8 votesFrench: 0 votes

So when I showed Susi the results it went like that:
SusiSunshine: Me won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Muahaha.
Caroline: you DID NOT. You didn’t even vote for Germany
SusiSunshine: Germany won LOL. I don’t care LOL

Thanks guys, now I’ll never hear the end of it *grumbles*. And to top it all. Mr Random that nasty beast dumped me for Susi when he saw the poll results. But he did call to tell me the name of the winner! The winner of a Kate Daniels books is…
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draconismoi

Congratulations!!! We will email you …

The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me? + Giveaway

Welcome to our newest edition of the Cover Fight. We fight dirty so be warned *wink*. Let’s start with  the stats of last times’ voting:

Succubus BluesRussian: 21 votesFrench: 17 votesGerman: 15 votesUk: 8 votesUs: 7 votesSpanish: 0 votes

Vampire AcademyDutch: 18 votesUs: 14 votesGerman: 13 votesRussian: 11 votesSwedish: 10 votesKorean: 3 votesYou guys are killing me! Why do you always let Susi win huh? You know I’ll never hear the end of it lol

Anyway I just got back from a date with Mr Random.org (yes it’s getting serious, I might let him count my underwear!) and he gave me the name of last post’s winner!!! Yes this lucky winner won a paperback copy of a Richelle Mead book of their choice with the US cover…
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jen7waters

Congratulations!! I will email you in a minute! =)
This week we will discuss Ilona Andrews‘ Kate Daniels series …

The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me? + Giveaway

Here we are again with another glorious Cover Fight. But before we start with this weeks selection we have a winner to announce.

But first the stats of last times voting:A Hunger Like No OtherGerman: 28 votesUS: 19 votesFrench: 12 votesJapanese: 6 votesNo Rest For The WickedUS: 24 votesGerman: 23 votesSpanish: 12 votesJapanese: 1

I so knew that the German covers rock. Muahaha! Ohhh, there is pattepoilue again. She just came back from her tête à tête with Mr. Random.org and here is the winner of one Immortals After Dark paperback copy

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RachelCongrats! You should have an Email from us in your inbox. =)This time we will “discuss” Richelle Mead‘s first novels in her Vampire Academy Series and her Succubus series. Caroline follows Richelle’s livejournal and she noticed that Richelle got some awesome covers for her foreign releases. So here we …

The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me? + Giveaway

Here we are again, the shallow Book Lovers aslo known as Caroline and Susi.So we had 2 super exciting weeks of voting and here are the results from last times polls:

Slave to Sensation by Nalini SinghUS Cover: 7 votesUK Cover: 21 votesGerman Cover: 21 votes Japanese Cover: 6 votesThai Cover: 9 votesA draw between UK and the German cover.

Visions of Heat by Nalini SinghUS Cover: 10 votes
UK Cover: 17 votes
German Cover: 17 votes
Japanese Cover: 1 vote
Thai Cover: 5 votes
Again draw.

This week we chose Kresley Cole‘s Immortals After Dark Series. Caroline found the French cover some time back and fell in love with it. So the wild discussion about covers started again. *big sigh*

A Hunger Like No Other

A mythic warrior who’ll stop at nothing to possess her… After enduring years of torture from the vampire horde, Lachlain MacRieve, leader of the …

The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?

After working together for quiet some time now we discovered more than once that we share an abnormal love for covers. For us as Europeans we always have the choice which cover we prefer, the US or the UK edition. But we often discover that we love another foreign edition even more. This post is all about that strange obsession of finding the best cover of a book. We also want to find out what you think about the covers and hopefully we will discover that we aren’t the only shallow book lovers in the blogoverse. We will post the results of our survey in the next post.

For the first week we choose the Psy-Changeling Series by Nalini Singh. We drooled over these covers for a long time and in our opinion there are some foreign editions worth mentioning, more …

Geekdom of Books: Foreign Releases

This post is really just my opinion on what can go wrong when a book gets published in Germany.

And believe me that happens more than you think. And yes, I’m aware of this just being the minority but it makes me angry nonetheless.

It’s a totally subjective post and I can only speak for German releases.No idea how it works in other countries.

1. Inventing a new English Title for the German edition

Okay I’m not thinking about anything as hilarious as “The Playboy Sheikh’s Virgin Stable-Girl“and other wonderful Harlequin Presents creations but the things we get here in Germany are sometimes rather mind boggling. I can understand when an English book gets a German title cuz that’s what we …

All YA Love: Judging a Book by it’s Cover #2 – Opposites

There were so many releases in YA during the month of March, it was so hard to narrow down the top 10. All credit to this post goes to my bestie, Jackie! I hope you enjoy it! It was fun to make For more info, click on the title and/or author name.

SWEET VS SOUR

It’s Raining Cupcakes                              by Lisa Schroeder                                 

The Pickle King
by Rebecca Promitzer

GOOD VS EVIL

Poisoned Honey: A Story of Mary Magdalene
by Beatrice Gormley

                                                      The Dead-Tossed Waves       …