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: “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!” – A horror cover
There were oh-so-many choices for the theme this week! Ultimately, I decided to feature a book I read about four years ago, Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes. This is also a thriller/mystery, and I’m sure I’ve seen it pop up on other Friday Face-Off posts, but it does have some interesting covers so I thought it would be a good choice:
U.S. edition, Mulholland Books 2014 | Umuzi (South Africa) edition 2014
Spanish edition 2016 | Indonesian edition 2017
U.S. paperback edition 2015 | French edition 2015
German edition 2015 | Chinese edition 2016
Creepiest Cover Award is a tie between the French and Chinese editions! Yikes. Most Boring Cover Award goes to the U.S. paperback. Graphically speaking, I think the Umuzi edition is the best design-wise. But my favorite is a cover with a deer on it (even though terrible things happen to the deer…):
I’ll admit it’s the color that grabbed me with this book, also the deer’s glowing eyes! And what about the creepy hands coming up from the bottom? All around I like this one best.
So many different ideas for the covers. I’ll go with the one you picked. I’m curious about this book after seeing the strange covers for it.
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It’s very creepy, I highly recommend it:-)
I’m going with the Umuzi. 🙂
Yay, love that one too:-)
What a great choice of book for this one, Tammy! I think it’s a tie for me – I love your stag, but I’m also very taken with the South African cover… It’s the sense of distress in the creature that captures my attention in that edition. Have a great week-end:)
I love the South African cover as well, and it gives you a big hint about the horror in the story:-)
I initially liked the same one the best until I got to the bottom and saw the German edition. That one really catches my attention. Both are great though and I’ve heard such good things about this book.
It do like that one as well, especially the “broken” font!
I like the same one you do, the colors make it very creepy. 🙂
I agree, and that’s weird because blue is normally a “nice” cover, lol.
Oooh i didn’t even notice the hands! I also love that edition but the South African edition is super creepy fantastic too!
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I like the deer because of the colour too but honestly, the German edition shatters (pun intended) I like the shards of Broken letters but why would a human statue be a monster or why would doll pieces be monsters? That is quite puzzling as is the deer. It sounds creepy.
Mmmm… those glowing eyes seem to stare right at you! So delightfully creepy… 🙂
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I love this book, this author and the cover you’ve chosen. I also love the South African cover and find it difficult to choose between them tbh.
Lynn 😀
Just looking at the first three covers I never would have suspected they were for the same book! They are super different from each other.
I agree with your choice, I really like the colors!
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Gotta agree that those French and Chinese editions are the creepiest–especially the French one, wow! I really like the one you chose, especially for the color scheme. I didn’t even notice those creepy hands until you pointed them out, those add a nice touch to the creepy factor.
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My choice is between Indonesian and the South African one! I also love the colour for the former, and I love the half-human, half-deer on the latter 😀
I love the Umuzi one! Both US ones and the Spanish one though, they’re so plain, and I wouldn’t even have a clue what the book was about. One is just a photo of a deer. It doesn’t even look like horror!
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That’s my favorite one too! I did this book for the theme “dolls” and I chose the same winner 🙂
I love this book! I have a hard time picking a cover though. The one with spray paint on her face sticks with me for some reason, but I also love most of the others… maybe because the different ones all remind me of different parts of the story
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I haven’t read anything by her yet, but I have one of her books in my TBR pile. This one seems interesting. I like the cover you went with here, I would have picked that one too.
The Chinese edition is insane! Spooks me out instantly! 😮
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Ooh spookiness. 🙂 I like the Indonesian edition the ebst too, for the same reason- those eyes! Yikes! Props also to the US paperback 2015- for some reason I like that one too.
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