‘You would like to go to the ball, is that not so?’
1 December 2017
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Book Covers, Books by Proxy, Friday Face off
Here we are again with the Friday Face Off meme created by Books by Proxy . This is a great opportunity to feature some of your favourite book covers. The rules are fairly simple each week, following a predetermined theme (list below) choose a book, compare a couple of the different covers available for that particular book and choose your favourite. Future week’s themes are listed below. This week’s theme:
The pen is mightier than the sword – a cover featuring a fancy font
This week I’ve chosen : Charm (Tales from the Kingdoms #2) by Sarah Pinborough. There are three books in this series and they’re just an unexpected delight, a mash up of more than one fairy tale and three independent stories from the same world. Be warned though, these books are adult retellings:
Most of these have a lovely font and I’m torn for a winner with the bottom two covers – I think overall I’d go with:
I love this cover – it has a sense of mischief and fun and the Tiffany Aching books are certainly a whole lot of fun.
Which is your favourite?
Next week – a cover featuring the night
Future themes:
8th December 2017 – ‘Do not go gentle’ – a cover featuring the night…
15th December 2017 – Hubble bubble toil and trouble – a cover featuring a portion/perfume bottle
22nd December – ‘Oh, we loves games! Doesn’t we, precious?’ – a cover featuring a Puzzle or Game
29th December – If music be the food of love, play on – a cover featuring a Musical Instrument
5th January – ‘The seaweed is always greener, in somebody else’s lake.’ – Under the Sea
12th January – ‘More than one meaning have I’ – a cover featuring a Knot/knots
19th January – You know your A, B, Cs – a cover made up only of letters/words
26th January – “The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction” – a cover featuring grass
2nd February – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – a Psychedelic cover
9th February – ‘My what big teeth you have’ – a cover featuring a cloaked figure
16th February – ‘Groovy baby’ – a cover that is: Retro
23rd February – “There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me” – a cover featuring a staircase
2nd March – ‘The only true wisdom is to know that you know nothing’ – a cover featuring something from Greek mythology
9th March – ‘…but Icarus flew too close’ – a cover featuring the Sun
16th March – ‘I got no strings to hold me down’ – a cover featuring a doll or puppet
23rd March – “When she was a child, the witch locked her away in a tower that had neither doors nor stairs.” – a cover featuring a Tower
30th March – ‘A little soil to make it grow’ – a cover featuring seeds/spores
6th April – “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” – a cover featuring a family
13th April – ‘lawns and rocks and heather and different sorts of trees, lay spread out below them, the river winding through it’ – a cover featuring a panorama
20th April – Where there’s fire there’s… – a cover featuring smoke
27th April – ‘Those darling byegone times… with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture’ – a cover that is positively mediaeval
4th May- ‘A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister.’ – a cover featuring a hand/hands
11th May – ‘Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth’ – a cover featuring a dinosaur/s
18th May – ‘Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;’ – a cover featuring a gravestone
25th May – Trip trap, trip trap, trip trap – a cover featuring footsteps
1st June – clinging and invasive – a cover featuring creeping vines
8th June – Raining Cats and Dogs – a cover featuring a stormy sky
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Thanks for listing all these upcoming themes😁 I had no idea that Sarah Pinborough wrote fantasy!
She really mixes it up tbh. Dog faced Gods is fantasy, as are Murder and Mayhem and Death House. !3 Minutes and Behind Her Eyes aren’t.
Lynn 😀
Yes, yes, total agreement! 🙂
That’s one wonderful cover indeed…
And lovely books too 😀
It’s a tough choice for me between the one you chose and the blue on with the slipper. I didn’t know about this series either!
I loved this series – definitely not YA – just saying.
Lynn 😀
I love the last two covers on top.
Yeah – I don’t think I disliked any of these covers. All good.
I’m quite partial to the white cover, I love that tiny dab of red for the slipper!
It is a lovely cover.
Lynn 😀
I haven’t read this book but I agree with your lovely choice 🙂
Thank you 😀