“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”
8 December 2017
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Tags: Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

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:
Do not go gentle’ – a cover featuring the night…
This week I’ve chosen : The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy #1) by Katherine Arden. I loved this book and am about to start reading The Girl in the Tower – which I’m so excited about. So, here are the covers:
I actually like all these covers – the imagery is so beautiful but my favourite without any doubt is:

I just love this cover – I would pick this book up without doubt just because of how beautiful it looks. Fortunately, the book is brilliant and lives up to the promise of the jacket. Can’t judge a book by it’s cover eh!
Which is your favourite?
Next week – a cover a potion/perfume bottle
Future themes:
15th December 2017 – Hubble bubble toil and trouble – a cover featuring a potion/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
‘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
“Always winter but never Christmas.”
24 November 2017
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Discworld #35, Friday Face off, Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

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:
‘I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently’ – a cover featuring snow
This week I’ve chosen Wintersmith (Discworld #35) by Terry Pratchett. I loved the Tiffany Aching series of books and there are a lot of covers for this one:
I like quite a few of these covers, some of them scream Pratchett don’t they and there’s a few on here that I’ve not seen before. My favourite this week:

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 a fancy font
Future themes:
1st December 2017 – The pen is mightier than the sword – a cover featuring a fancy font
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
‘Mirror, mirror, on the wall…’
17 November 2017
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Tags: Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, Jackson Pearce, Sisters Red

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:
Snap! – a cover featuring a double image or reflection
This week I’ve chosen Sisters Red (Fairytale Retellings #1) by Jackson Pearce:
There’s definitely a theme going on here! My favourite, just for the striking colours of the cover:

Which is your favourite?
Next week – a cover featuring snow
Future themes:
24th November 2017 – ‘I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently’ – a cover featuring snow
1st December 2017 – The pen is mightier than the sword – a cover featuring a fancy font
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
“Open the pod bay doors, Hal”
10 November 2017
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, Mark Lawrence, The Liar's Key

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:
‘zip it, lock it and throw away the key – a cover featuring a key
This week I’ve chosen a book with a key on the cover and the title! That was actually just pure chance though – and you have to look quite closely to find the key. Mark Lawrence’s Liar’s Key (#2 in The Red Queen’s War):
Interesting to see the different takes on Prince Jalan. If you haven’t read the Red Queen’s War by Mark Lawrence I highly recommend it starting with The Prince of Fools and concluding with The Wheel of Osheim.
My favourite:

Which is your favourite?
Next week – a cover featuring a double image or reflection
Future themes:
17th November 2017 – Snap! – a cover featuring a double image or reflection
24th November 2017 – ‘I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently’ – a cover featuring snow
1st December 2017 – The pen is mightier than the sword – a cover featuring a fancy font
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



