Many Covers Monday: Code Name Verity
Many Covers Monday is a weekly feature over here at Under The Mountain. It's where I look at the many different covers of books. Usually I pick a title and showcase all it's different covers, including original covers, rejackets and foreign language covers. You can see more covers here! Today we're looking at Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Verity.
I have two weeks. You’ll shoot me at the end no matter what I do.
That’s what you do to enemy agents. It’s what we do to enemy agents. But I look at all the dark and twisted roads ahead and cooperation is the easy way out. Possibly the only way out for a girl caught red-handed doing dirty work like mine — and I will do anything, anything, to avoid SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden interrogating me again.
He has said that I can have as much paper as I need. All I have to do is cough up everything I can remember about the British War Effort. And I’m going to. But the story of how I came to be here starts with my friend Maddie. She is the pilot who flew me into France — an Allied Invasion of Two.
We are a sensational team.
That’s what you do to enemy agents. It’s what we do to enemy agents. But I look at all the dark and twisted roads ahead and cooperation is the easy way out. Possibly the only way out for a girl caught red-handed doing dirty work like mine — and I will do anything, anything, to avoid SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden interrogating me again.
He has said that I can have as much paper as I need. All I have to do is cough up everything I can remember about the British War Effort. And I’m going to. But the story of how I came to be here starts with my friend Maddie. She is the pilot who flew me into France — an Allied Invasion of Two.
We are a sensational team.
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(UK) Love love love the cover on the left. It's just perfect and I can't even explain why. The left cover is strange and I think it's harder to understand what the book is about. It's my copy and I want to try and get the left one to replace it.
(UK) Love love love the cover on the left. It's just perfect and I can't even explain why. The left cover is strange and I think it's harder to understand what the book is about. It's my copy and I want to try and get the left one to replace it.
(US) Eh, these are nice but I just don't care about them. Left is nice, I like the bikes but this happy scene doesn't fit with the dark story. Right is kind of weird and not very eye catching.
(Canada/Dutch) Left is okay. The model reminds me of the actress Audrey Tatou. Right looks like a school textbook to me, I don't like it. But I guess the writing is nice?
(Spanish/Swedish) Much cover love for the Spanish cover, it's very eye catching. Not much love at all for the Swedish, glancing at it I would expect it to be about two American ladies whose boyfriends go off to war.
Winner
Agree or disagree? Let me know in the comments!
Next week: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Next week: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Agreed! I love the one you picked as the winner.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely agree! It was either this one, or the Spanish one :)
ReplyDeleteI like the one you chose, but I like the US one on the left too. At first, it looks like it is nice enough but nothing special, but I kind of like how the clouds are kind of ominous in the distance, kind of like you know something bad is about to go down.
ReplyDeleteI like the Spanish cover and the Dutch cover best. The other women are all wearing too much make-up.
ReplyDeletePersonally, the winner might actually be my least favourite – to me, the colours clash and it's not very united... I quite like the UK right one and the US left one; they are beautiful covers (and the UK one even has red ink around "Verity"). My favourite might be the Swedish one, though – I like how direct and challenging the model's stare is, and the period clothes (although I'm still not sure who is who... I think that might also be why I like it).
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