book info: on sale: now copy from: public library pages: 348 review written: 21.12.17 originally published: 2009 edition read: Penguin NAL 2009 title: Rooftops of Tehran author: Mahbod Seraji In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari's stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice... my thoughts: This book was first published in 2009 and I remember adding it to my list around that time but never actually reading it since I preferred checking out library books to ...
Who Wore it Better is an original meme I brought with me from Drugs Called Books. In it, instead of discussing fashion or cloths, we discuss book covers from different countries, and who has the best cover. The meme is co-hosted with the lovely Amanda from The Book Badger and will be featured on her blog every other week, so check her out as well!
This Thursday, I'll be discussing different covers for Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder, one of my absolute favorite series ever. This book series is so good I can't even, and Maria (can I call you Maria?) announced she'll be continuing it! Que in excited squealing!
1. English - So... I don't actually have much to say about this one. I dunno, I suppose it's pretty (and I do like the fact she's going up a castle's staircase, as that's accurate for the book's setting), but there is nothing about it that catches my eye or make me interested in reading this book. And, shallow as I am, since this was the cover I saw everywhere, I put off reading this amazing series for so long just because of it. GuH how I hate myself now because of it.
2. English 2 - I don't actually know how I feel about it. Much like the first, I don't exactly hate it - but then there is nothing about it that I particularly like, or that catches my attention. (Plus, the model kind of creeps me out)
3. English 3 I'm noticing a trend here because once again, I haven't much to say. I like the color. Don't really like how the background is - it doesn't fit as smoothly as it could. I guess I like the book and the jars?... I don't know. This STILL doesn't make me want to read the book, same as covers one and two. Which is weird - three covers in, and none are really any "good" to me. I'm a hard sale, apparently.
4. Engish 4 - Aha! At last, one I like! This was the cover I finally got for myself when I decided to read this book. And I really like it, so that's good! I love simple covers. Covers with just one thing that captures your eye. I love the solid black background against the colorful rise of smoke (makes you think of poison, definitely!). And I love that there is small, almost unreadable writing embedded in it, that makes you want to take a closer look and decipher all their secrets. And, honestly - I love that there's no model. Like, I love that a lot.
5. English 5 - The last English cover (that I'm going to show). Geez, someone really couldn't make up their minds!This one is probably the worst of the lot. Whereas all the others hid some of the model's features, giving the reader some leeway, this one just forces you to see this girl as Yelena. This is not my Yelena! And what's up with the still life painting in the back?... like, that's supposed to give out the tension, the intercitiy, the mystery, the danger of the book? It's freaking called POISON Study. Poison! Poisons are exciting! For heaven's sake, they're not dull and faded!
6. French- This is actually okay! It's simple (which we established I like!) and shows an important object in the story (the butterfly) plus the smoke of the poison which I love so much in the forth cover. The only problem is that I don't like the background color - it blends too much with the rest of the cover - doesn't make it pop, and therefore makes this a pretty forgettable cover. Doesn't make you want to pull it off a shelf, you know?
7. Italian - The Italian cover copies from the forth English one, though it used it's own image for the wafting smoke (which I actually like), but the most notable thing about it - the changed name! For some reason, Poison Study is called Dark Moon in Italian. Why!?
I have originally planned on showing you guys two more covers - the Turkish one, and the Swedish one. But as I was making this, I realized both of these were so ugly I really didn't want to. They're not in the running for this Who Wore it Better post. Like, not at all.
7. Italian - The Italian cover copies from the forth English one, though it used it's own image for the wafting smoke (which I actually like), but the most notable thing about it - the changed name! For some reason, Poison Study is called Dark Moon in Italian. Why!?
I have originally planned on showing you guys two more covers - the Turkish one, and the Swedish one. But as I was making this, I realized both of these were so ugly I really didn't want to. They're not in the running for this Who Wore it Better post. Like, not at all.
After all this talking, I'll sum things up for you - the forth English one for the win, and I'm not really a big fan of any of the rest ;)
Nitzan★
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