Showing posts with label Beth Revis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beth Revis. Show all posts

Saturday, May 25, 2013

{Cover Wars} Cover Loving week 16-18

What a better way to start or continue a Saturday then by looking at the covers you guys dimmed the prettiest of their bunch.
 Yes, that is right we are still in the Book Loving count down as we see all the past winner of the battles that have ensued in Cover Wars. Now then let’s jump to it and start the pretty covers mini runaway.
First we have a cover that even though its characters are trapped in space it has no problem changing its “face”. We are talking about the cover with more cover makeovers in the story of Forget About TV, Grab a Book history and the first book to be launched into space. If you are thinking it’s all “Across the Universe” by Beth Revis you would be correct.
The winner for the Across the Universe week is the…..
A LITTLE BIT OF ROMANCE COVER!!!!!
From outer space we moved to something closer to home, to a girl that thinks she can make any boy into a bad boy but instead finds herself being changed. We are talking about Geek Girl by Cindy C. Bennett. It was The goth girl that thought she was doing the makeover VS The artsy looking, confident fairing goth girl; and the victorious cover for the Geek Girl battle is…..
THE ARTSY LOOKING, CONFIDENT FAIRING GOTH!!!!!
We leave the contemporary world to move into the fairy tale retellings, one where people of earth learn to fear the moon people, especially their queen. This is the first Cover Wars that was International VS U.S. cover, one of the Cinder by Marissa Meyers covers even made a reader ask the question, should we really let that type of body image take over our books?
The  in this International VS Homeboy edition is….
THE ORIGINAL COVER!!!
This week we’ve discovers 6 covers that for you my dearest readers where the ones most deserving of your loving, the ones that represented the story best and the ones that you would pick up from a bookshelf if you were to bump into them in the wild. Join us next Wednesday to see more beautiful covers as we get nearer to the end of this book loving count down.
Did you liked this week’s winners?? Would you change any of them???

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

{Cover Wars} Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Welcome to this week’s edition of cover wars, where covers battle it out and only one is chosen as the fans favorite. This week we have a book that has had quite the cover make overs, we are talking about the one and only Across the Universe by Beth Revis, a round of applause ladies and gentlemen!!!
Now before we take a look at todays contestants shall we take a look at the book blurb for those that don’t know the book or don’t remember it:
A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. 
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. One of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.
Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.
Now that we all have some idea about the book in question shall we take a look at the contenders?
First we have the cover that leads us to believe that this wont be just a mystery book, but that romance will also be involved, maybe a metaphor using the infinity of the universe and their love? 
 With this cover I can totally see the book blurb come in to full motion, it gives a light to Amy on her quest for the truth and the possibility that she is being watch as she looks in the space ship for answers. 
This covers leaves a lot to the imagination in my opinion, it hints at places that may become relevant as the story progresses. 


 This is the newest cover for Across the Universe and let me tell you if we compare this one to those before it, I find it lacking it does represent the people that decided to stay frozen on the ship... but... besides that it doesn't really speak to me. Compared to it all the other books are like sirens chanting their song, asking me to read them, but with this one it's like its playing it cool, to cool.

So share with us, which one of this vast selection of covers is your favorite? And if you by any chance know why it had so many cover make overs or which came first I would love it if you would share, this kind of details may not really matter when compared with what the book holds inside that it will satisfy the book nerd inside of me greatly.

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