Insurgent by Veronica Roth

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Publication Date: May 1st 2012
Publisher: HarperTeen
ISBN:  0007442912 
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Dystopian
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One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.
Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.

Cover Conversations: Seeing Double

Seeing double?

I've been doing a bit of Goodreads research and I've noticed an interesting trend. Sometimes the exact same cover model is used for different books. I think I've mentioned it before in one of my Judging by the Cover comments. However, today I stumbled across something very interesting. 
Earlier in the year I read and reviewed Jenna Black's Glimmerglass and I loved the cover.

Judging by the Cover: Glimmerglass has a beautiful cover. I like the symmetry and the way it reflects Dana's abilities as a Faerie Walker! The softness of the models face looks great against the black background and the dots and smoke give a surreal feel to the cover!

 Who wouldn't?
This morning I was researching Caragh M O'Brien's Birthmarked series which I'm eager to get my hands on for a new dystopian segment I want to start. I popped on to her website to get some background information on the woman in question and saw a list of all the different languages Birthmarked has been published in.

There are a few different (and all gorgeous) covers for the English editions of Birthmarked:

 Most interesting though was the cover of the German edition Die Stadt der verschwundenen kinder (which, according to google chrome translator means The City of Lost Children):

            See any strange similarities? Or a lot?
      They're almost exactly the same - ignoring the different titles of course. It's just been reflected and undergone a                                                    slight colour change. Interesting right?

Is this a screw up or an international oversight? I don't think it matters too much - it's unlikely we will ever get the two confused, but they better be careful if they ever publish a German edition of Glimmerglass and want to use their original cover.

It does imply that there isn't just a photobase for models and poses, but for cover art as well!