Weekend Update: By the Cover

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It has been forever since I've posted one of these, and it's largely due in part to being CRAZY BUSY. This means that I'm lucky to get one review out per week, let alone multiple reviews and a book-related discussion on the weekend. I'm trying to get back in the saddle, as there ARE things I'd like to discuss, but I would ask for your patience

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Hmm, hard to say how the covers ended up like this, but I didn't really think much of it myself when I first pulled Possession out of its shipping box at B&N. I think it's because these two aren't the only two out there like this. Stuff stuck inside other things, that is. The similar premise, now that makes it more interesting, but if you don't read the back of both you might not notice it. If I'd just read the premise for Possessed, I might have thought, "Oh that sounds like Matched or Delirium or..." but...*shrug* I don't really think it matters. I say, hey, if it gets someone to buy the book, the bully for the author.

And I do know what you mean by purposely making covers look like others'. I assume you've seen the covers for Wuthering heights and Romeo & Juliet - the versions stuck in the teen section. Yeah, freaking Twilight all the way. There's another pair of books that ALWAYS confuse me in the teen section because of their covers, but naturally I can't remember what they are at the moment - I'll have to get back to you on that.

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Oh, yes, the premise is definitely similar to other YA dystopias, no doubt. :)

I'd forgotten how they've made YA covers for those classic books, and you're right, they're totally ripping off the Twilight covers. Oy...

Finally!

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Got the chance to find the books I wanted to point out. While their cover images aren't the same, it's the *colors* that kept confusing me. It also didn't help that their last names were so similar. These books are literally right next to each other on the shelf.

First we have Kimberly Derting:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/search/?searchfor=book&keywords=the+body+finder

Then there's Bree Despain:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/search/?searchfor=book&keywords=the+dark+divine

Haha - and actually if you click The Dark Divine and scroll down, you'll actually see Derting's books listed in the "Similar books" area.

I also keep confusing the Fallen books by Lauren kate and the Hush Hush ones by Becca Fitzpatrick. I think it's the whole angel thing that throws me...

Re: Finally!

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I have no trouble keeping Kate's an Fitzpatrick's books straight. The covers are so radically different!