ROASTING HORRIBLE BOOK COVERS #2 | INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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*BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO ARE YA & ARE FOR AGES 13+ | THE INTENDED AUDIENCE FOR THIS VIDEO IS 13+

[@jessethereader]

counting this as my wednesday video even though it's tuesday hehe :D see you all on friday with a new video

[@kavya12kohli]

Don't worry Jesse. Its Wednesday where I live. So you did post on Wednesday for some people.

[@ChemicalPenguinn]

it's officially wednesday now where I am! You might have posted on Tuesday, but I'm watching this on Wednesday, so I'll take it!

[@tesswood411]

I'm so invested in this series omg lol

[@jessethereader]

that makes me so happy! lol

[@kavya12kohli]

God! Please don't show the neon hunger games edition again n again. It's triggering me.

[@jessethereader]

LOL

[@Bear_the_shepherd]

😂😂😂

[@kittynorville9125]

I’m with you sister 😂

[@devonmunn5728]

I guess I'm one of the few who actually like it. The Arabic cover although not very fitting I like. I like colors and neon don't judge me haha

[@jacefromanotherworld]

I think it's cool cuz i immediately get vibe of anarchy which totally suits to the vibe of this book

[@priscillavrooij]

Why do I feel that we Dutchies have way more to offer than we have seen in this series? I know we've got gorgeous covers!

[@jessethereader]

I loved the shadow & bone Dutch cover!! Stunning!

[@DesAnanieva]

We in Bulgaria too 🥲😅

[@priscillavrooij]

@@jessethereader I know, and I do agree (even though I don't read fantasy) but whenever I'm bookshopping I see so much pretty covers. We've got beautiful stuff (the only issue is that I can't come up with one right now 😅)

[@ChemicalPenguinn]

I'm from the UK and some of the UK covers are questionable, but I do remember seeing some really stunning hunger games editions (not the neon ones, those are committing a FEDERAL CRIME) the last time I went to the bookstore

[@veramele]

Im from the UK too, the neon is horrendous! Ive got the editions from when these books first came out and theyre just the mockingjay badge on a black background- Perfection 👌👌

[@willowisaperson2807]

i've got the metallic foil editions (gold blue and red i think?) which i like a lot

[@northernkhaleesi]

you should definitely do some UK vs US covers for some of your favourite books, that could be so much fun!

[@larasmoon]

something about your energy just brings me so much comfort, thanks for all the creative content lately! also the German Hunger Games cover threw me right back into my high school reading years, not gonna lie teenage me loved that cover

[@szgatigress4226]

Lmao I never really liked it but it throws me back too lmao There is some version that I have that is black with a silver mockingjay button

[@valeriadentis1630]

Italian here. We had a different edition of Hunger Games prior to the "fence" one, but it's not the first you showed! I honestly never saw that! But the fence one.. I kinda liked it immediatly when it came out! Love ya, have a great day!

[@haileyfussell]

Omg the Romanian edition of the hunger games is gorgeous. I also loved the Dutch version of shadow and bone wow

[@Sara.m.t]

I’m so happy you include Romanian versions in your videos 🥰 thank you for noticing us (and for appreciating our obsession with gold) !!

[@mangaloverize]

You should do one episode with just Harry Potter covers from all over the world 🌎. You could also do a top-tier list if you want to make it a longer video. My favorite covers are the swedish ones, but I'm also swedish, so I might be a bit biased ☺️

[@ximenaallessandrij.5972]

THE POLISH EDITION OF SHADOW AND BONE! I MEAN!!! That was a REALLY beautiful cover!!! An those like graphic novel covers style were SOOO pretty as well!!!! Let's not talk about the Hunger games flashy colors one XD that never existed 🤣

[@torsuk]

maybe you meant polish? because the Russian cover is basically the same as the American one

[@ximenaallessandrij.5972]

@@torsuk ah you’re right, thanks 🥰

[@kasia-l]

Unfortunately it was a first edition of Polish Shadow&Bone. By the time we got Six of Crows the rights went to a different publisher and they not only changed the cover but also the translation including the titles and names!! I had to hunt down the other two books in the trilogy on some second-hand sites😢

[@ximenaallessandrij.5972]

@@kasia-l oh noooo :c that's the worst! It was a really wonderful edition u_u hope it gets ciral one day and it comes back with the whole trilogy 🥺

[@ree4353]

14:36 I'm like 99% sure that's the Spongebob font 💀

[@jessethereader]

ICONIC HAHAHA

[@gabriellabatel]

It totally is!

[@Miss_Witch13]

I love this series please continue it!

[@lovelylife-tz4be]

As someone who was born in the Netherlands and lived in Germany for a majority of my life, I love that you included the German and Dutch covers. I read in German thow. I can't read in Dutch anymore.

[@alaenamarie8702]

I would love for you to review the cover changes of The Twilight Saga! It’s a small change but I hate it so much LOL 😂😂😂

[@supercalime]

If you want to do more comparisons, the Brazilian publisher “seguinte” does a lot of cover redesigns to mostly YA books, like: One Last Stop, If This Gets Out, Tokio Ever After, etc.

[@elenanicoleta5127]

Love the Romanian rep ♥️💛💙 Yes, The Hunger Games edition does have gold foil on it and the other two volumes are just as gorgeous 😍

[@eddejawatts1125]

MORE CONTENT?!?!! your a a beast Jesse ❤️❤️❤️

[@jessethereader]

🖤

[@kiraironskin]

omg I know I made a lot of suggestion already, but i had to come back for I thing here is the only place where I can vent about the cover change of "If this gets out" by Sophie Gonzales. The original cover is so beautiful and now THIS! I am sorry, I don´t mean to offend ppl who like that kind of art style, but I really don´t think the german cover compares to the original cover. I wanna cry. My frustration level is "Spin the Dawn"- Cover-change- level. Same goes for the cover change of "She drives me crazy" by Kelly Quindlen. The original cover is a wonderful, lovely wonderful picture, a piece of art. the german cover is so plain.

[@banaa9463]

I like this series. I like it when you tell us the translated title of the book too

[@scoutpunk]

so excited for this one!! just rewatched the last one the other day

[@fa3ryg1rl1]

The creepy rabbit on the cover of Hell Bent is one of the worst I've seen. Can't wait for the book, but I'm ditching that cover 🤣

[@BuntinCozymysterylover]

Love this series! I was so happy to hear your thoughts on the Japanese edition's covers! Anime and manga-like covers are very popular in Japan, not only for YA, fantasy, and children's books but also for mysteries, contemporary novels, etc. Even some old titles are being republished with those kinds of covers! 📚✨

[@teifan6674]

4:12 I am italian, and I have NEVER seen that cover in my life. The italian version everyone had was very similar to the original book covers, maybe a little less stylized if that makes sense? Then they recently remade it with actually a really nice futuristic looking cover. No clue where that monstrosity came from!

[@ChemicalPenguinn]

So I went to Paris last summer, and I saw an absolutely fantastic French edition of the seven deaths of evelyn hardcastle , as well as both of Madeline Miller's books. I almost bought the french version of the song of achilles even though I've already read it because it was so stunning haha

[@marianamauricio]

i love this series so much!!

[@ximenaallessandrij.5972]

Jesse saying that he doesn't want to take five hours of our time Me: take it! Take it all! XD

[@jhreader]

Once I realized you weren’t actually looking at anything, I couldn’t unsee it. Made me smile throughout wondering what it was like to look to the side pretending there was a book there haha

[@jessethereader]

HAHAHA I always wonder if people will pick up on this 😅 I typically look at the covers on my phone & then gather my thoughts

[@jhreader]

@@jessethereader haha the magic of editing

[@michellestewart7432]

The Valkyrie series by Kate O’Hearn has some of my favorite book covers in the US, but some other covers I’ve seen were genuinely awful, especially because I liked the other covers so much!

[@lorien1377]

...I love the neon Hunger Games. I know I'm the odd one out, but I love the bright colors and the quotes all over it. I'm also pissed I missed the 10th anniversary editions! They're so good!

[@jazzie5478]

Really, when I look around my bookshelves, we Germans have a thing for faces / eyes / staring into your soul on book covers 🤣

[@JemimaRose]

'this feels like rock & roll merch' pls hahaha

[@jessethereader]

😅

[@sunshepherdnow]

Please make more of these! I really like them!

[@iheartfantasyM]

React to the Swedish covers for the Heroes of Olumpus, Trial of Apollo and Magnus Chase books. And Harry Potter. LOVE them. 😍

[@WigglePup]

Maybe in part 3 you can feature The Empty City from Survivors? It's not too popular, but it's got some international covers.

[@bnbnya-bw6tj]

Thank you so much for coming back to booktube with awesome fun filled contents..I'm so glad Jesse.💜 So much Love from India🇮🇳

[@jayslgbtbr2407]

I feel like the US edition of They Both Die at the End is perfect, because the color scheme is very melancholic, but also soft and gentle like the characters. And it makes it look like dusk, which is about when their story starts together if I remember right. That orange is so happy looking and vibrant. Does not fit the tone of the book at all.

[@papayaa8117]

10:53 the french editions are all sooo

[@readwithrach17]

We had some special editions in the UK that recoloured our original cover and the pink was my personal favourites

[@mackenziemc]

10:43 it reminds me of Aladdin😬 13:56 I don’t particularly like how it has the characters names in the cover. Makes it seem like it’s a movie poster.

[@kitsune9797]

I so wish we had a Hunger games anime/manga

[@mandiconnell3311]

I loved the same Grisha ones that you picked! Especially the green one. Also there’s something so fulfilling about judging books covers haha I love it

[@enyas.6662]

When I was in France in 2021 I found the French edition of Shadow and Bone (the whole trilogy) and I just bought them, I love them so much xD Now they have a special place on my shelf. Also you should do editions of the Lunar Chronicles, there certainly are a bunch of other editions out there!

[@catcarstairs8179]

I love this series so much!! It would be a blast to see you rate editions of Lord of the Rings!! ❤❤

[@gabriellabatel]

Thank you for so many laughs, Jesse! You always bring a smile to my sister and me! Next episode, can you do Divergent, Uglies, and/or A Good Girl's Guide to Murder?

[@ayantikasen3490]

I loved Lunar Love with all my heart and actually finished the book today. I can't wait for you to read it too.

[@liviarein]

yey !! now i have something new to procrastinate on while avoiding my assignment due in a couple hours 🥳

[@piapeijainen]

I wish you would review the Martha Wells All System Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) cover. (Or, really, I'm crazy about the Finnish cover myself, so that's why I'm telling you about it. It can be found "Martha Wells Hälytystila". And Estonian version can be found "Martha Wells Kõik süsteemid punases".)

[@clarabecker2276]

jesse i havnt watched you in years but you should know that you were my entire childhood and the reason i read MPHFPC. please, have a good day

[@jessethereader]

ahh. thanks for coming back and saying hi! i hope you're doing well & taking care of yourself.

[@devonmunn5728]

OK I am unabashedly nostalgic for the early 2000's esque covers. Like give me alot more of it

[@LilAllygator]

Ooh are the eyes on the Italian cover supposed to be fire?? Like girl on fire??? 👀 or am I reachin lol

[@AplacecalledBookland]

PAHAHAH WHEN I SAW THE BUKGARAIN VERSION I WAS LIKE YESSSSS 😂 I don't like it either tho hahaha

[@immortalazure]

Ooh, wish you showed the Australian shadow and bone Ed. They were awesome.

[@mollyhammerton6826]

I know it wasn't included in this video but I will never get over the atrocity that is the UK edition of Tokyo Ever After, especially compared to the US one

[@Karina-jm2oe]

I rarely seem other countries covers, this is nice

[@number1coolguy322]

Holyyyyy the Romanian cover of the hunger gamed is so cool i want it so bad

[@alina-87]

This series is gonna be so fun. Your bookshelves look so nice btw

[@letsstudy5619]

You have to make an edition with the shadow and bone and the ACOTAR brazilian versions! They're amazing! Ohhh and the harry potter italian versions are hilarious!

[@luluzecchin5009]

omg the broken hearts series please

[@lavendermarshmallowplant3229]

I have the UK one of They Both, and the background is a very shiny gold for my copy

[@Amyduckie]

The special edition of They Both Die at the End replaces the orange with gold and it’s *gorgeous*

[@eden.elizabeth]

my absolute favorite hg edition is the white limited edition books. they are my dream covers that i will have one fay

[@Fruits0Basket0Fan]

The Night Circus has some really cool international covers!

[@velosistar237]

I feel like the “staring into our soul” vibes are VERY 2012 ykno? It fits so well for around when the books were releasing

[@puncky]

The dutch edition of Grisha has gold foil tho, they're beautiful!

[@szgatigress4226]

The original german cover for The Hunger Games is awful. I'm so glad I have another edition lmao. It's simple but pretty at least xD Also THE FRENCH COVER FOR SHADOW AND BONE?? I'm not fluent but I have to buy it lmao

[@lifeofbekahh]

the French version of shadow and bone book is so pretty 😊

[@lisalaviat2181]

There are new covers for the german Grisha books. I have no idea where you found those old covers 😅 they are out of print for years now. The new ones are so pretty ☺️

[@dendrakejastillana9443]

I didn't notice the skull in the background cover of They Both Die At The End before, now I can't unsee it.

[@nadineswayy]

i just love how i was laughing the whole vid loll

[@eri_sed]

The german publisher tend to change the Titel of books. And by change, I mean they not only translate the title, they actually give a new one.😅 For example the hunger games series. The overall series Titel is like you mentioned: "the tributes of panem“. For the actual books you have 1. Deadly games 2. Dangerous love 3. Flaming fury Sometimes they change make sense but you just think wtf. 🤦‍♀️ I now it's not the meaning of the video, but I had to rant a little bit😇 For cool german cover you should check out the cover for the witcher series, Ash Princess and the mistborn series. As a crapyier cover I can recoment the first law series. (they also did there the name changes again😅)

[@human9460]

Or they change it into something different but still English. Like they did with one Alice Oseman book...

[@lionmuesli4321]

@@human9460 yeah, like tell me why Radio Silence didn't work? I was so confused when I saw that title.

[@human9460]

@Lion Muesli same! I thought I had missed the complete excistence of another Oseman book and nearly bought it by accident until I saw that it said also the English title small on the cover. It's just so stupid

[@thatangelread]

@@lionmuesli4321 there's a copy right law. If a book with the same or I think even a similar title already exists the publishers have to change it as the same title can't exist twice. that's why sometimes they add an additional title

[@easymanga31]

@@thatangelread this wouldn't really apply to the titles of translations of the same book. There are plenty of titles kept the same on the german market. A secondary german title is often used, because well... it's a german translation. You would like your german reader to understand the title. Generally, title changes just come down to what the publisher thinks will work best on their specific market, since an american audience and a german audience can sometimes differ greatly. Plus: the audience a publisher is playing to is not only the readers but primarily the wholesellers, so it depends on what titles sell with the big costumers.

[@tendoheart9928]

You don't understand the real power that german Shadow and Bone cover holds, it's an old edition that has a colored cover under the blandness that is the dust jacket!

[@thegirlonfiredolls]

ive those 3 hunger games editions, the fence one, the colorful one and the romanian ones, they came in a box set with a panem map. i also have some other foreigns editions of the hunger games books

[@hadewijchstock369]

I got that neon hungergames edition in dutch for my birthday like six years ago. I hated the cover then and i hate it now. I got the entire trilogy in english with the the original edition and i threw the neon version out as soon as i could. My mom really liked the neon one.

[@Joy_Martin]

That Italian edition for Shadow and Bone's reaction is epic! 😁😁😁

[@yeaveragenerd8997]

Author recommendation! Melissa Caruso T Kingfisher/Ursula Vernon Both I would highly recommend, but anyway

[@abbysauls1955]

I would love to see you rate the Scythe editions!

[@cmondya4919]

Loved it !

[@thelittleprince7072]

Jessie pls include more of Persian covers there are some good ones love you

[@stylesvfx]

Heyyy bestie! Oml I’m so early I love ur vids sm ❤❤❤❤

[@kiraironskin]

The german covers suffer LARGE cover changes (and sometimes even title changes) . Most of the time the german covers look all the same and are boring. I would love to hear what you have to say about what happened to the books of Elizabeth Lim (Spin the dawn was turned into Ein Kleid aus Seide und Sternen) and the german Lunar Chronicles (Cinder became Wie Monde so silbern). I really like the german cover of Cemetery Boys (german title Yadriel and Julian). In Middle Grade Section I LOVE the Aru Sha series and I am interested to hear what you think about the german covers (german title Die Wächter des Himmelspalasts). I think the Japanese and Chinese edition of Red White and Royal Blue are simply awesome!! And I'd like to mention the Polish version of Captive Prince (german title Der verschollene Prinz). And since we all love gold foiling, please let us know how you like the german version of Song of Achilles (german title das Lied des Achill). I am obsessed with the german cover of Galatea, also by Madeline Miller. And thanks for starting a series about covers. 👏👏👏👏

[@HannahReadsFiction]

I think my favorite is the French Shadow and Bone edition! 🥹 but the neon hunger games 😂

[@CherryCheetah]

I recommend looking up czech edition of Tender is the Flesh.

[@melindaroos968]

Oh I hated the German covers so much that it stopped me from reading the series when it first came out. I only just started reading them now because they got a very nice simplistic redesign.

[@VC-cx8gf]

14:37 why is this literally the spongebob font lmao

[@mariepotter8921]

Just got home from Barnes and noble and did a major book haul!!!! Love B&N gift cards for Christmas ❤️❤️❤️ love ya!!! Hope you’re doing well!!!

[@mariepotter8921]

Also….yesterday was my BDay! So I’m super happy you posted today!!!

[@tallisv8600]

I had this Russian edition of the Hunger Games XD and to be honest, it's even more terrible in real life than in the picture. it was 2009 and our publishing house then tried to design all teenage books, regardless of the content, in the Twilight style. the cover of the second book is just as poor by the way. thank God they have now been publish in a new beautiful design!

[@emmal7510]

I think that first UK edition of The Hate You Give is actually the movie tie-in edition. Either that or they reused that cover for the US movie tie-in edition, since I'm sure I've seen it in B&N.

[@human9460]

Oh and please react to Twilight in different languages. The German covers are not pretty but iconic 😌

[@lizbradley7489]

I really like the Japanese version of The hunger games and the Japanese version of the Shadow and bones I love manga and anime omg the neon hunger games we don't talk about the neon hunger games cover

[@lanternwaste8361]

Ahh I can’t deal with Katniss having Green eyes and not Gray

[@madelinecade4010]

Not the Spongebob font on the Serbian TBDATE 💀

[@jessethereader]

LOL

[@lincyayala3482]

You should do a video for different editions of Classic Books .

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

Omg the neon hunger games always makes me laugh

[@katietaylor7822]

I love these book cover videos!

[@oliviacornwellauthor]

I've not yet read Shadow and Bone but I'm here for that Dutch edition. I'd totally buy it even if I can't read the language 😂

[@teodorastoycheva891]

I am from Bulgaria and I want to assure you that I have never seen this yellow thing. The edition in Bulgaria is orange, just like in the UK edition.

[@allycatpanda2812]

if you do another video like this then you should do the Red Queen series, Twilight, and the Revenants series by Amy plum.

[@bookaholicgameaholicvlogah4191]

*Jump scare* that was very funny 😂