Here we are again with the Friday Face Off meme being hosted by Books by Proxy .   This is a great opportunity to feature some of your favourite books’ covers.  The rules are fairly simple and can be found here.  Each week, following a predetermined theme choose a book, compare a couple of the different covers available for that particular book and choose your favourite.  Simples.  This week the theme is:

Armed to the Teeth

A cover which features weapons

This week I’ve gone for the Raven’s Shadow series by Anthony Ryan and I’m pitching the entire series in for good measure.  So we have:

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I quite like both of these sets of covers. I prefer the fonts for the first set but I like the layout with the split title and author name from the second set.  However, in terms of the overall covers I have to go for the second set.  I love that set, it just really appeals to me: the colours, the moodiness, the way they’re framed and for me they go together really well as an overall set.  In the top frame of books the middle one immediately stands out for me as being a bit like the odd one out somehow – probably because the 1st and 3rd books have a more moody colour theme.  Anyway, my winner this week: