Friday Face Off: The Last Witch by CJ Cooke
12 September 2025
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Tags: CJ Cooke, The Friday Face Off, The Last Witch
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 that I’m very much looking forward to: The Last Witch by CJ Cooke. Here are the covers:
My favourite this week:
I went back and forth with this one because I really like the other cover but I like the attention to detail in this cover that at first you overlook.
Which is your favourite?
Join me next week in highlighting one of your reads with different covers
Friday Face Off: The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
3 January 2025
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Tags: Book Reviews, book-blog, Books, Kay Chronister, reading, The Bog Wife, The Friday Face Off
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 that I read in 2024. The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister:
My favourite this week:
To be honest I really like both covers for this book so it’s difficult to choose a favourite. I really like the ominous feel of the woman emerging from the bog – but then this cover is equally curious and ominous – with a woman seemingly being buried?
Have you read this book already? What did you think and which is your favourite?
Join me next week in highlighting one of your reads with different covers.
The Friday Face Off : The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak
26 July 2024
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Tags: book-blog, Books, Jason Rekulak, reading, The Friday Face Off, The Last One at THe Wedding
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 that I’m really pleased to have a review copy for. The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak. Here are the covers:
My favourite this week:
I actually like both covers, the orange cover is very striking but the other cover feels ominous.
Which is your favourite?
Join me next week in highlighting one of your reads with different covers.
The Friday Face Off : The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry
17 May 2024
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Tags: Christina Henry, The Friday Face Off, The House that Horror built
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 that I recently read and enjoyed. The House that Horror Built by Christina Henry. Here are the covers:
I like both covers but I’ve chosen this one because I like the font and also the whole cover gives me spooky horror movie poster vibes from the 70s or something like that.
Which is your favourite?
Join me next week in highlighting one of your reads with different covers.
The Friday Face Off : Completions
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:
Completions – a satisfying conclusion to a book or series
Firstly, some news. As of the new year the Friday Face Off will be changing slightly which is why I haven’t posted a new list of themes. The FFO has been running for a few years now and I’ve had a lot of fun coming up with themes and finding books with covers that fit, but, I think the idea of themes has run its course and so from the new year the face off will be taking a more general course. This opens things up a little I think so you can choose any book that you’d like to compare the covers of.
This week my book is The Girl and the Moon by Mark Lawrence. This is one of the most enjoyable conclusions to a series that I’ve ever read. Here are the covers:
I like both sets of covers that are available for this series but, on balance my favourite is:
Do you have a favourite?
Here’s the full series together:
If you’re taking part in this week’s theme feel free to leave your link in the comments below.
If you know of an event that’s coming up let me know and I’ll try and include covers that work for the event itself so that you can link up to the Friday Face Off and, as always, if you wish to submit an idea then leave me a comment – or if you’d like to host a week then simply let me know. Also, I would just mention that it’s very possible that some of these might be repeats from previous FFOs although I have tried to invent more ‘open ended’ prompt that can be interpreted differently and also prompts that relate to emotions. Finally, don’t struggle with any of these, this is meant to be a fun way of highlighting books. If you can’t come up with a book you think fits for a particular week use a freebie – perhaps a recent read for example:
From the start of 2023 I will no longer be using themes for the Friday Face Off but will be hoping to use current reads or look at previous books pre blogging, or simply shine a bit of a spotlight on some books that I’ve not looked at previously.
Books and travelling with Lynn 