Justine Larbalestier

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Eine Kleine Madness and Magic

All three volumes of the Magic or Madness trilogy will be out in Germany in the next few months. Here’s what they look like:

These may well be my favourites out of all the trilogy’s covers.

Talk about eye-catching! She even looks a little bit like I imagined Reason looking. Though the nose is wrong, the face too narrow, and Reason doesn’t have facial tats or elf ears or blue-black hair and eyes . . . details, details.

Here’s the first page in German:

Posted by Justine at 0:00, 11 January 2008 under Magic or Madness trilogy, Vainglory | 13 Comments »

Comments

  1. marrije Says:

    ooh! they are indeed brilliantly eyecatching. congratulations with those.

    though i couldn’t suppress a little motherly horror at the thought that such a lovely girl would do that with her beautiful face.

    January 11th, 2008 at 2:29 AM

  2. Shloopy Says:

    ooh! very pretty! dontcha think that the tattoo would have some general social awkwardness? (Well, I guess having a crazy mother would be pretty awkward too.)
    Should I dye my hair that blue-black color?
    Ooh, and speaking of German, has anyone else read The Thirteen and a half lives of captain Bluebear? It’s an amazing book that was originally in German.

    January 11th, 2008 at 6:52 AM

  3. sherwood Says:

    Nice translation! Got the flavor, far as I can see on 1 page.

    January 11th, 2008 at 8:20 AM

  4. Craig Gidney Says:

    I love that the model could be biracial–in keeping with Reason’s cultural make up.

    January 11th, 2008 at 9:28 AM

  5. Patrick Says:

    omg! – The germans added a unicorn?

    wow!

    well, as my german friends always say -

    Wenn Affen Ihr Auto stehlen, kaufen Sie ein orange Fahrrad und essen Sie Kuchen

    January 11th, 2008 at 10:37 AM

  6. Camille Says:

    These covers are beautiful. So dramatic, and I like that they tried to capture her ethnicity. (After these I like the Brazilian, Taiwanese, and US/Oz covers, in that order; all pretty. Not really loving the Italian or French ones at all.)

    The disparity in title translations is amusing me. I like all the titles! (Okay, I can’t actually read the Taiwanese one…)

    “Wenn Affen Ihr Auto stehlen, kaufen Sie ein orange Fahrrad und essen Sie Kuchen”

    Oh my. (Oh how I love Google Translate…)

    January 11th, 2008 at 10:47 AM

  7. Laura Says:

    Oooh… I love those! Very dramatic!

    January 11th, 2008 at 11:22 AM

  8. kim Says:

    YAY!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!

    IT IS IN GERMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    i can understand some of it!!!!

    maybe since i don’t have the books yet i will get them in german and read them when i learn more of it. (i am in german 1)

    happy happy joy joy happy happy joy happy happy joy joy happy happy joy!!!

    does anyone know that song. it was on a target commerical.

    January 11th, 2008 at 4:14 PM

  9. serafina zane Says:

    that cover is made of fawesome. best one yet, by far.

    January 11th, 2008 at 4:48 PM

  10. Patrick Says:

    “does anyone know that song. it was on a target commerical.”

    The Ren and Stimpy Song?

    January 11th, 2008 at 6:09 PM

  11. Liset Says:

    oooh
    coooooooool

    omg!
    her hair is blue!
    i love it!!!

    January 11th, 2008 at 10:30 PM

  12. 12. Justine Says:

    Craig: I love that the model could be biracial–in keeping with Reason’s cultural make up.

    Yes, that made me really happy too.

    January 14th, 2008 at 2:13 PM

  13. Isabella Says:

    Oh, wow. Gorgeous covers <3

    (Hey look, we get to keep our BIG letters now? :)

    January 24th, 2008 at 9:15 AM

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