‘ere be dragons’
18 March 2016
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Jen Williams, The Copper Promise, The Friday Face Off
The Friday Face Off (FFO#2)
‘Here we are again with the Friday Face Off meme being hosted by Books by Proxy . The rules are fairly simple and can be found here. Each week, following a predetermined theme choose a book, compare a couple of the different covers available for that particular book and choose your favourite. Simples. This week the theme is:
‘A cover which features dragons’:
UK : US
The Copper Promise is the first in this fantastic series written by Jen Williams. I actually like both covers and particularly the way the colours share a similar colour theme. That being said I adore the UK covers for this series. They have a wonderful olde worlde feel which is really striking. Plus the three of them together look amazing.
My winner this week is the UK cover.
Books and travelling with Lynn 
There’s not even a dragon on the US version!? I get drastically different feels for the story from the covers. I mean, each is completely different art style, and one is a dragon, while the other is a girl and guy.
I do like both covers to be honest – and especially the way they’ve made the colour schemes correspond – I checked out No.2 and they’ve also followed that colour scheme. I would pick up either of these but I like the originals as they have a ‘mediaeval’ feel which I really like. Plus – dragons!
Lynn 😀
They do say great minds think a like, and before I read your thoughts I was thinking how wonderful the ‘olde worlde feel’ of the UK cover was 🙂
They are three very lovely covers and look gorgeous together.
Lynn 😀
No dragon? No party! 😀 😀
Haha – almost sounds like a contradiction in terms! 😀 😀
I prefer the UK version as well.
It is lovely isn’t it! 😀
The UK cover is gorgeous!!! I love it so much. They’re done in such a lovely illustrative style. The US cover doesn’t really do much for me as I almost dislike covers which distract from my own imagined versions of characters! That UK cover though – classy!
They are very classy covers. I like the US cover although it is so different. It makes me wonder if we really are so different in our choices – I would certainly pick up the UK book over the US version if faced with the choice.
Lynn 😀
I can’t choose! I own the UK version so I’m kind of partial to it, but then I love the photo realistic style of the Angry Robot version as well (I’m guessing that is by Gene Mollica, I love his stuff and his covers have a very distinct look!)
I think I’m partial to the UK version for the same reason but I do like both. I would definitely pick the US version up to read if I’d seen it first but if I had the choice it would be UK for me on this one. I love the mediaeval feel to the covers.
Lynn 😀
UK version. 🙂 I just love it
It is rather lovely! 😀