Today I’m returning to the  Friday Face Off, originally created by Books by Proxy).  I’ve missed these for the past few months and so would like to get back to comparing covers (and hopefully I will be updating this page with a new banner.  This is an opportunity to look at a book of your choice and shine the spotlight on the covers.  Of course this only works for those books that have alternative covers (although sometimes I use this to look at a series of books to choose a favourite). . So, if you have a book that has alternative covers, highlight them and choose your favourite.  If you’re taking part it would be great if you leave a link so I can take a look at what you’ve chosen.

This week I’ve chosen a book from a series that I love and am currently awaiting the release of the (I think)  third and final instalment (The Voyage Home).  Pat Barker’s The Silence of the GIrls was such a good book (followed by another fantastic second instalment in The Women of Troy.  If you’ve not read these books yet I highly recommend them for lovers of tales retold – in this case a Trojan retelling from the female perspective. I’ve shown two covers (although there are more available – these two are very eye-catching).

My favourite this week:

Difficult to choose this week because I really like both covers. I’ve chosen this version because I like the colouring but more than that it feels like a conscious choice has been made to only show the body of the woman so you can’t actually put a name to her as such.  She is unidentified and that feels very fitting given that this is a retelling from the women’s perspective.

Which is your favourite?

Join me next week in highlighting one of your reads with different covers.