The Friday Face-Off – Tower

The Friday Face-Off was created by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday by finding a book whose cover is based on the theme!

This week’s theme:  “When she was a child, the witch locked her away in a tower that had neither doors nor stairs.” – A cover featuring a tower.

I almost went for the obvious cover (at least for me), The Dark Tower by Stephen King, but then I discovered that this book has quite a few nice covers as well. Uprooted by Naomi Novik was a wonderfully dark fairy tale/romance that took me by surprise. At the heart of the story is the tower where the Dragon lives, a man who chooses a girl from the village every ten years to serve him. A girl who never returns…

Del Rey 2015 | Macmillan UK 2015

Planeta (Spanish ) 2016 | cbj (German) 2016

Algoritam (Croatian) 2016 | Mladinska knjiga (Slovenian) 2017

Pan Books 2016 | Ukrainian edition 2017

This is tough to choose! I really love most of these covers, but in the end I’m going for the Ukrainian edition:

I feel like there is a lot of symbolism in this cover that relates to the story. Which one is your favorite?

Posted March 23, 2018 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 26 Comments

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26 responses to “The Friday Face-Off – Tower

  1. You and Bibliosanctum chose the same book this week – I love some of the covers for this one. Including the one you chose I still readly like the Pan cover with the single red rose.
    Lynn 😀

    • Tammy

      I saw that! I really wasn’t expecting to see this on another FFO, I thought I was being obscure, lol.

    • Tammy

      You should read it, and she has a new book coming out this year, which I’m definitely going to read.

  2. I LOVE this book! I didn’t realize there was so many covers. I had only seen the Del Ray one, which is also my favorite, tho I like the UK and Pan versions too!

    • Tammy

      I didn’t realize there were this many covers either, until I started looking on Goodreads! And I didn’t even show all of them!

  3. I love the covers for this book! 😀 And what a reminder that it’s still gathering dust on my shelves!!

    My two favourites are the Macmillan UK 2015 edition and the Pan Books 2016 edition. Both use beautiful, simple illustrations and a minimal colour palette – Just gorgeous!!

    • Tammy

      I love when books get so many different covers, and each one brings a new interpretation to the story. I think Novik got lucky with this one!

  4. Sorry I’m so very late this week – it’s been a bit of a rough one… I love this book – I think it works really well with the theme and the top cover on the right is my favourite – so appropriate to the story with that tower overshadowing the village…

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