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 (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 favourite.   Future’s themes are listed below – if you have a cover in mind that you’re really wanting to share then feel free to leave a comment about a future suggested theme.  I’ve also listed events that take place during the year, that I’m aware of, so you can link up your covers – if you’re aware of any events that you think I should include then give me a shout.

I’ve added themes in below. For information, I’m trying out some new ideas so along with coming up with particular items for book covers I thought we could also look for certain elements contained within the book or that play a large part in the story – this really broadens things out because I have plenty of more ideas with this – I’ve gone for a few of the Tough Travel Themes (so a book with that theme – just choose any book – the theme isn’t necessarily on the cover, then compare covers), also, I’ve thrown in some genres and some colours.  Hopefully this will open things out a little and give us some more freedom to come up with new books.

This week’s theme:

Out for summer – school or academic setting

Finally, I’m starting to catch up with blog hopping, commenting and reviews.  I still have some work to do on the blog and replying to comments but I’m feeling a bit more relaxed about things now which is good.

This week I have no idea what I had in mind!  Typical.   I’ve gone a little bit off on a tangent for this theme because it’s a book that I love and can’t help gushing about and using every opportunity to chat some more.  This is a book with three main povs.  One of those is a character called Ruc, he and his partner Bien eventually end up in a gladiatorial style school – that’s the angle I’m coming from.  Maybe a bit of a cheat because it’s not like the entire book is a school setting, but even so, I think it works.  And, regardless – read the book – pretty please.  The Empire’s Ruin by Brian Staveley – here’s my review.  Only two covers for this as it’s relatively new – here they are:

My favourite

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