The Cover Wars: Poison Study

Rea of Rea's Reading and Reviews and I decided to get together to do a weekly meme where we would compare covers of the UK editions of books with those of the US editions.

The aim of this is to just have a bit of fun. We put ourselves in the position where we see both of these books side by side in the bookstore. Which would we choose? Why that one and not the other?

This week, we will be comparing the UK and US covers of Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder.

The First book is the US version and the Second one is the UK
version.

Tara says: Easy choice for me. The US one looks like it’s an old book and I really don’t like it for some reason. The UK one is the one I love it has everything it needs to show me what the book will involve. I think UK wins J

Rea says: I have a different version of Poison Study, which is no longer available, and that one is actually my favourite! However, of the two here, I’m not really fond of the US cover. It doesn’t stand out so much. The beautiful purple colour of the UK cover stands out among all the other fantasy covers on the shelves. Even if it’s not as pretty as my old UK cover, it’s still UK for me.

Score: 

Week 33:      US: 5    UK: 20   Draw: 8

Do you want to join in too? Here’s how:

Step 1: Copy and paste the Cover Wars image.

Step 2: Copy and paste our intro or write your own but it must link back to both of our blogs.

Step 3: Copy and paste the US and UK cover images.

Step 4: Compare the two.

Step 5: Either use our score or keep your own score.

Step 6: Post it and share it!

Thanks and have fun!

Review of Outside In (Insider #2) by Maria V. Snyder

Description
Me? A Leader? Okay, I did prove that there's more to Inside than we knew. That a whole world exists beyond this cube we live in. And finding that led to a major rebellion - between worker scrubs like me and the snobby uppers who rule our world. Make that ruled. Because of me, we're free. I thought that meant I was off the hook, and could go off on my own again - while still touching base with Riley, of course. He's the one upper I think I can trust. But then we learned that there's outside and then there is Outside. And something from Outside wants In.
^^GoodReads^^


My Thoughts
This book is the second and last from the short series of Insiders, the first book which was outside in, this one is a continues from this book.
After the first few chapters i loved this book, just like i loved the first book, this is now after the Trellas and Pop Cops, are now no longer in charge, and Trella, just wants most people equal, but when people start doing things, and then they realise they are not alone in this, things start heating up.
Throughout the whole story i was having trouble on who's side who was on, because 1 minute someone was helping Trella and the next minute, they are helping someone else, hmm, but in the end, i figured it out :)
This book is as good , if not better to the first one, so please if you have read the first one then please read this one :)

Tara

Rating: *****

Review of Inside Out (Insiders #1) by Maria V. Snyder

This book, was recommended by my sister Leanne, and i am so glad she let me read it, (even though i have read most of her books which she has bought).

This book is about in away lower and upper classes like us, people who are poor and people who are rich, but this is about 4 levels , the bottom 2 levels being where the scrubs live, where they do labour work and have hardly any time for themselves, and the 2 upper levels being where they have there own families and have more time to do what they want to do. But throughout the book there is some things similar to each other.

A girl called Trella is a scrub and she keeps to herself like everyone else, and tries to not get noticed by the pop cops. She has a friend called Cogon, which she has been living with since the start and spending time with each other. She sometimes sneaks to the upper levels (you are not meant to) but this only risks her own life but soo she starts up a rebellion and risks other peoples life's, this is all because of a prophet who asked her to find some information on the location of a gateway to the outside.

Trella at one point lands into a room and meets an upper, similar in age, Riley, they grow to trust each other and you can see that they will grow to be more than just friends on the first time they meet, Riley plays a part in it all as well. Other characters also play main parts , Cogon, The two Tech-No's Logan and Jade- Anne, Sheepy (sorry but i had to put this down, the sheep was amazing), the Prophet, of course Trella and many more.

Trella is shown as a brave and loyal person and in my case the heroine of the book. The ending was a surprise and i am so glad that there is another book called outside in, i hope the characters Riley and Trella develop more and get to each other more in it.

Tara

Rating: *****