You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you’ll dance with the reaper…
29 July 2016
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Tags: Books by Proxy, hooded figures, The Friday Face Off
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 book 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:
Shrouded in black, in morals I do lack – A cover featuring a character wearing a hood or cowl.
This week’s book is The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. I thought there were a lot of covers last week but this week was just silly – basically I stopped looking as it was getting ridiculous. So, my covers are:
My favourite is the last cover – I love the autumn feel and the colours – plus the character is wearing a hood (so it’s appropriate!) and he’s carrying his musical instrument so really ties in with the story. Lots of great covers to choose from them and some of them very dark and moody.
Lady in red…
15 July 2016
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Tags: Books by Proxy, Lady in Red, The Friday Face Off
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 book 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:
Lady in Red
A cover which features a female character in red
This week my book is Fire by Kristin Cashore. This was No.2 in the Graceling Realm series and was my favourite book. Here is the cover:
For me, this week, there is simply no contest. The woman, with the dramatic background and the swirling red dress – oh yes, that’s the one for me. Everything about that cover is gorgeous. The Font, the placement of the font, name and central character, the ominous background (with maybe a hint of light) and the female, poised, ready. the undoubted winner for me:
Feel free to join in and, if you want to make suggestions for future covers – call over to Books by Proxy and leave a comment.
A land of milk and honey…
8 July 2016
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Tags: Books by Proxy, The Friday Face Off, The land of milk and honey
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:
A Land of Milk and Honey
A cover which features an idealised land
This week I’ve gone with The Just City by Jo Walton – because it seems perfect for this theme – a story about an experiment to create a truly ‘just’ city based on Plato’s Republic:
The first cover really draws my eye I have to admit and I like the colours and the font very much. The darker cover isn’t quite as eye catching in that respect but I think it feels more in fitting with the actual story somehow. However, in spite of that I can’t help my attraction to the first, it doesn’t feel as in keeping with the spirit of the story somehow, in fact it has an almost mediaeval fairytale type feel but I think it’s still my favourite:
The winner:
Next week’s theme:
Lady in Red
A cover which features a female character in red
Four and twenty blackbirds….
1 July 2016
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Tags: Blackbirds, Books by Proxy, The Friday Face Off
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 as Proxy is temporarily away from the fray I’m going for a freebie theme:
‘A pie of blackbirds’
With blackbirds in mind I’ve gone for Blackbirds (Miriam Black #1) by Chuck Wendig. This is a great series that I love and I’ve found 3 covers:
The first cover is the one I know and love – on the face of it, it’s a good deal simpler to look at than you first imagine, you really have to zoom in to appreciate the finer detail. The middle cover is very effective in terms of a shock of colour but I’m not quite sure what’s really supposed to be going on with the illustration. The final cover gives me the serious goosebumps – terrifying.
This week, absolutely no contest for me and I’ve made the image larger so you can really see what’s going on.
The pen is mightier than the sword…(although given the choice, in a sword fight….)
24 June 2016
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Tags: Anthony Ryan, Books by Proxy, Raven's Shadow series, The Friday Face Off
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:
vs
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:
