Many Covers Monday - The Forest Of Hands And Teeth

It has been SO LONG since I last did a Many Covers Monday so I'll explain how it works - typically every Monday I'll pick a book and showcase all the different International covers of it. I love seeing different countries interpretations of each book. Today we're going for a zombie novel about a girl who lives in a village in a huge forest, so expect many covers of girls looking staring longingly, surrounded by trees.

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In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future—between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded by so much death?

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If I'm correct these are the three US covers, in order of release. Which starts off the theme of this post, MARY'S HAIR IS BLOODY BLACK. It's stated in the book.

Anyway, I love the third cover.


 UK/Czech/Dutch

*stares at the flaming red hair* Yeah ok. The UK cover is unusual which I do like but I don't get what the red thing is actually supposed to be. Dutch.... ehhh. Women running around in impractical dresses is a tad overdone.

Bonus: de klauwen van het woud google translates to "the claws of the forest"


French/German/Greek

The first cover is pretty good - it has the fence and the staring girl is creepy. The second... MARY'S HAIR IS BLACK. Again with the big dress. The font is nice though! The Greek cover freaks me out because there looks like there's no noise and the mouth placement looks weird... it's an awful cover.

Bonus: la forêt des damnés google translates to "the forest of the damned" and wald der tausend augen to "forest of a thousand eyes"


Hungarian/Italian/Polish

HAIR. My biggest issue with the second cover (aside from the hair) is how much it doesn't look like a scary, post apocalyptic zombie novel. I like the contrast with the forest on one side and ocean on the other, with the third.

Bonus: La foresta degli amori perduti Google translates to "the forest of lost loves", which makes the cover even more confusing.


Russian/Spanish x2 

The Russian cover straight up looks like she's holding a baby. The first Spanish cover looks like she was wearing something else and someone used Microsoft paint to cover that up. It's weird. Despite not being fully black hair, I think the last Spanish cover killed it, it's really good.

Bonus: Buscaré el Océano Google translates to "I will search the ocean". I don't know what she's searching the ocean for. Searching FOR the ocean, yes.


Swedish/Vietnamese

A tree and someone praying. I love the cover scheme but I think the second cover makes the story look a lot more religious than it is.

Bonus: De vassa tändernas skog Google translates to "the sharp teeth forest" and Rừng Răng - Tay to "tooth - hand forest"

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Do you have a favourite cover? Let me know in the comments!

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