“Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!”
29 December 2017
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Covers featuring a musical instrument, 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:
If music be the food of love, play on – a cover featuring a Musical Instrument
This week my book choice is The Hum and the Shiver (Tufa #1) by Alex Bledsoe – I read this quite a while ago and really enjoyed it – in fact I should try to catch up with the rest of the series:

Next week – a cover that features ‘Under the Sea’
Future themes:
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
I’ve never read this book, but I do like those covers. I love the cover you picked, it’s very moody!
It’s a good read – rural fantasy. I should continue on with the series.
Lynn 😀
Thanks 😀
I haven’t read this particular book, but I’ve read another one in the same series. I thought I was familiar with all the covers, how in the hell have I never noticed there was a violin in this one before now? 😛
Well, one of the covers is very dark and a bit difficult to spot the violin – I think that might have been my cover. It took me ages this week to come up with something.
Lynn 😀
I like the cover you chose. The first one is not bad either. 🙂
Yeah, I liked both to be honest.
Lynn 😀
I love the title – and I like the author, so as I haven’t read this one, I need to track it down. As ever, Lynn, you’ve nailed it. Though I like both covers…
This was a good read – rural fantasy – I need to get on with the rest of the books in the series.
Lynn 😀
I’ve not heard of this book before, but I think your choice is lovely. 🙂
Many thanks 😀