Showing posts with label Tahereh Mafi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tahereh Mafi. Show all posts

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Do You See What I See?

*Click on covers to make them larger*

I discovered this other cover when I was looking up the covers for my Cover Issues: Shatter Me, which I haven't finished yet, but will be coming soon. And I was shocked. I can't believe these covers are exactly the same. 

The one on the left is the German cover of Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi and the one on the right is Carrier of the Mark by Leigh Fallon. So I sat there staring at the covers for about ten minutes. And they really are exactly the same. The same girl. Her hair is the same. Her hand is positioned the same way. The blue part at the bottom is the same. The only difference is the shades. Her hair varies a little and the blue is a little different. And of course the background. 

I just thought I would share. I have never heard of the one on the right. Have you? Have you read it? If not, you can click here to view that book on Goodreads. I'm still only about 60% the way through Shatter Me. It's a really good book and it draws me in, but for some reason I don't feel the need to pick it up. 

Anyways, I don't know who's the copy cat in this situation, but does it really matter?

Enjoy!

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

My Favorite 'World Building' Authors


Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly
 meme held over at The Broke and the Bookish

This weeks topic is your top ten favorite authors
in a specific genre. For Example: Dystopian, 
Contemporary, Sci-Fi...

I chose dystopian, but not just dystopian, because some of my authors aren't classified as such. My selections are authors that are amazing at world building. Describing how that world works and having it flow in my head like a movie. Or when it's still our world, but society is so much different, everything is ran completely different than now. 


My choices:

Veronica Roth
Ahhh, Veronica Roth, the wonderful author of Divergent. I loved Divergent from the first few pages, I knew I was going to fall in love with it. And I did. The world that they live in is crazy, and although we don't know exactly what's going on, we will soon. Can't wait for the third and final book. 








Cat Patrick


Cat Patrick... If you haven't read Forgotten or Revived, you need to. That's need to be on your 'right after I finish this' list! She is amazing at this kinda stuff. Both are set in the present, but when you get sucked into the stories and see how differently their own personal world is... It's amazing.
Tahereh Mafi











I started reading Shatter Me and was instantly drawn in and not even really knowing why. I had heard her name thrown around, but didn't know what all the fuss was about until I actually started reading her book. It's amazing so far, it had to go back to the library, so unfortunately I didn't get to finish it yet. But I'm on the waiting list for it :)





Beth Revis
Have you read Across the Universe? If not, you should! The world Beth Revis built on Godspeed was amazing, all the futuristic-ness was wonderful! I still haven't made it around to A Million Suns, but I will. Hopefully just in time for Shades of Earth. 







Richelle Mead
I just recently read Vampire Academy and though Richelle Mead did a fabulous job. The names were a little weird, but that's all part of the world building. I loved learning about all the different Royals and levels of vampires. Definitely a really great author. Hopefully soon I'll get around to the second book. 






Suzanne Collins
Although I didn't really care for The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins is a great author. All the characters in the different districts and their different social statuses really is very creative. I will eventually finish the series, I'm just not in a rush to do so. 






Kat Zhang
Many of you may not have ever heard of Kat Zhang, but her debut novel What's Left of Me just recently came out. And I read it as fast as I could get my hands on it. The synopsis was so weird and original and extremely unique... for me. I've never heard of anything else like that. A must read!






J.K. Rowling

She wrote the wonderful, wizarding world of Harry Potter... Need I say more?!











Well, those are my picks. I only had 8. I know I didn't exactly follow the guidelines, because I didn't pick an actual genre, but they are my favorite to read in terms of world/society building.

Have you read any of these authors?
What did you think? Did you like them?
If you did a TTT, leave a link :)

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Angela's Book Haul #10

Got a few more books to haul :)

From Barnes & Noble:
Vampire Academy (Book #1) by Richelle Mead


Insatiable (Book #1) by Meg Cabot


After being on the waitlist for
about 2 months, from the library:
Shatter Me (Audiobook) by Tahereh Mafi


Bought anything recently?
Have you read any of these?
Leave a link or a comment :)
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