Friday Face Off: The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay

Friday Face Off is a meme that was created by Books by Proxy and is currently hosted by Lynn's Book Blog. The rules are fairly simple. Each week, following a predetermined theme, choose a book (this doesn’t have to be a book that you’ve read), compare a couple of the different covers available for that particular book, and choose your favorite. This is a great meme for showing off your favorite book covers. 

A PICTURE WITHIN A PICTURE

I admit that this prompt wasn't all that easy to narrow down. I finally decided to interpret it as two ideas or pictures represented on the book cover. I went with The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay. This cover is quite clever and artistic. The cover showcases spilled dessert on the sidewalk but it also shows a silhouette of a couple. I haven't read this book yet but the symbolism is shouting at me. I just love it! 

The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay

MY VERDICT: 

Title: The Sea of Tranquility

Author: Katja Millay

Publisher: Atria Books

Release: September 5, 2012

Pages: 449

Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance

I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk.

Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things: to get through high school without anyone learning about her past and to make the boy who took everything from her—her identity, her spirit, her will to live—pay.

Josh Bennett’s story is no secret: every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. Now all he wants is be left alone and people allow it because when your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space.

Everyone except Nastya, the mysterious new girl at school who starts showing up and won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. But the more he gets to know her, the more of an enigma she becomes. As their relationship intensifies and the unanswered questions begin to pile up, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding—or if he even wants to.

The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the miracle of second chances.

Which one of these covers do you like best? What are some of your favorite foreign book covers? Leave the link to your Friday Face Off post in the comments!