Mexican High by Liza Monroy
Hardcover
PaperbackAmazon.com:
The daughter of an American diplomat, Mila has spent her childhood moving from country to country. When her mother is reassigned to Mexico City for Mila’s senior year of high school, Mila has no idea what to expect. Mexico seems to be a country with the ultimate freedoms: the wealthy students at her private international school—the sons and daughters of Mexico’s ruling class—party hard at exclusive clubs, dress in expensive clothing, and see more of their housekeepers than they do of their globe-trotting parents. But Mila has more in common with them than they know: her father, whose identity has been kept from her, is a high-ranking politician with whom Mila’s mother had a one-night stand in her hippie days. Now Mila is determined to discover who he is, whatever the cost may be.
I really like the pose and saturation on the Hardcover but like the innocence of the girl on the Paperback. I think to make a proper choice I'd have to read the book to see what Mila was more like. I like how the covers could be sisters, same font and little dingbats all over them. So if I had to choose, Hardcover!
Hardcover or Paperback?
Melissa Walker has the cover stories for both of the covers this week on her blog, the hardcover went up yesterday and the paperback today! Theme week!
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I think she looks too mature on the top (the model's not a teen!) and too young in the bottom one (...she also doesn't look like a teen..maybe 12).
ReplyDeleteI like the hardcover because of the colors, but I'm not sure I understand either cover.
ReplyDeleteMy uber-prude nature automatically dislikes the first one due to the really short skirt and the inappropriate placement of that little circle. Like we're looking at a photo of Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan getting out of a car and they needed to cover things up. Heh.
ReplyDeleteBut I don't quite like the pb either. Hmm. I don't like the falling image thingies.
Ooh, I love the paperback, and the symbols are milagros. This book is excellent, everyone. I promise.
ReplyDeleteI've been wanting to read this for awhile. Cool that it is in paperback now.
ReplyDeleteIf I had to choose it would be the paperback version. Although I'm not terribly fond of either one.
ReplyDeleteCat- I didn't even notice the circle placement haha!
ReplyDeleteI like the paperback best. The little symbols all over look out of place. At least on the paperback they look slightly better in their placement. Although I don't know why they are necessary at all. It looks like clutter to me.
ReplyDeletePaperback all the way. The hardback looks like an adult novel and I agree with Cat about the circle placement. Plus on the hardback, it looks like tattoos to me.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure, but I like neither. Like you I will have to read and decide which look is the apt one :)
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure -- the icons on the hardback don't look as integrated to me. But I really don't like either.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I like either...I like the colors of the hardcover, but those stamp/icon things are distracting.
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