A Clamour of Rooks #Fridayfaceoff
20 May 2016 
Here we are again with the Friday Face Off meme being hosted by Books by Proxy . This is a great opportunity to feature some of your favourite books’ covers. 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:
Just Then Flew Down a Monstrous Crow
A cover which features a bird
This week I’ve gone for a book by Diane Setterfield: Bellman and Black. This is a very unusual book, dark and a little creepy. Maybe not as compelling a read as The Thirteenth Tale but still a good read. My review here. And now to the goodies:
So – well, book 1 is more a birds wing than a bird! Book 2 we’ve down to a feather – but, we still get the picture I think. Three, I love the image and the font. No.4 is downright creepy!
My favourite is without doubt No.3 – I just love something about that cover, the outer edges, the gold curved font and the gothic fairytale feel:
Join us next week for:
27th May | Renewed Shall be Blade That Was Broken
A cover which features the word ‘blade’ in its title
Books and travelling with Lynn 
I’ve never heard of this book, but I’m definitely intrigued! I really like all of the covers, perfectly mysterious and kind of creepy in their own way.
It’s a creepy tale for sure. The author’s first book is the Thirteenth Tale – which is just really good – I think in a way she was almost a victim of her own success because it’s so difficult to wow everybody the second time around. That being said I did enjoy this – just maybe not as much.
Lynn 😀
I think my favorite is the first one, something about the dark setting and the clock and the bird wing gives it a creepy feel. But my second favorite would be the third one, I do love the font:-)
I actually think all of these are pretty good tbh although the fourth one is perhaps just too surreal or creepy! I know what you mean about the first one – and that’s the book I owned so something definitely appeals to me about it. I kind of like the simplicity of the third.
Lynn 😀
I’m with you – I prefer the third cover by a long country mile… But if you have a minute to swing by and look at my choice for this week’s Friday Face-off – I think you’ll see why I’m a bit pole-axed. Talk about great minds thinking alike…
I certainly will stop by. All these covers are pretty good but the third one just appeals to me.
Lynn 😀
I loved The Thirteenth Tale, but found Bellman & Black dull. But the covers! They are all wonderful, and yet I the third one best.
I think a lot of people were disappointed by B&B – sort of understandable really because the bar was set very high after The Thirteenth Tale – which I loved! I still liked this but it has more of a creepy fairytale/fable type of story. I think it was perhaps a little bit too gloomy.
Lynn 😀
I haven’t read this one however I like the 3rd cover too and I also like the simplicity of just the feather in the 2nd cover.
I think you’d like her first story – Thirteenth Tale – it’s very good. This one was okay but not as good as the first book. I think I probably had very high expectations going in – as did a lot of people I suspect. It actually is quite a good story though.
Lynn 😀
I like how the crow is pulling up a ribbon(?) like he would a worm. Despite #4’s headless women, #3 gives me the best sense of a ghost story.
Yeah, it’s a really good cover – simple but effective.
Lynn 😀
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Love your choice, it’s so elegant!
That’s exactly it! Thanks
Lynn 😀
Oooh all these covers are quite lovely! I love your choice and the second book – I love that feather! Simple and classy but also quite dark. I’ve never heard of this author!
Diane Setterfield is great – give Thirteenth Tale a go – it’s very good.
Lynn 😀
Added to the list! Thanks! 😀
I liked 1 and 3, but my favorite, like yours, was 3.
It has a creepy fairy tale feel to it I think.
Lynn 😀
I read The Thirteenth Tale ages and ages ago, but I remember loving it. The cover that you chose has the most beautiful typography, I need that font in my life!
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