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 would expect but why would they change a English title into another English …

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       by …

On Our Bookish Minds: Lets Talk About Book Covers

The old saying of never judge a book by its cover is true most of the time. However, there have been instances when there is a bad cover or even those which do not illustrate the characters realistically, such as the recent controversy about the whitewashing of protagonists in several YA books.

Often these are still good books, just bad cover choices.

I don’t usually let bad covers put me off to a book, but there are times for each of us I am sure it happens for better or worse. Beautiful covers can be misleading sometimes though and I have been burnt several times when I picked up a book that I thought would be good just because of …