The Friday Face-Off: Favorite Fantasy Book

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: “Simples” – A favorite fantasy cover.

Whenever I think of favorite fantasy authors, I always think of Alice Hoffman. Her genre is more “magical realism,” but I think that’s an important sub-genre in the realm of fantasy books. I chose The Rules of Magic this week, and even though I could only find five covers I like, I think they give you a good idea of the feeling you get when you read this. Here they are:

U.S. Edition 2017 (Simon & Schuster)

UK edition 2018 | Dutch edition 2019

UK Kindle edition (Scribner UK) | Russian edition 2018

I love all these covers, and the first three in particular really give you a retro vibe (part of the story takes place in the 60s). But I think my favorite is the Dutch cover, there’s something about the yellow and the girl peeking through the flowers that just makes me happy:

But I’d love to know which one you like best!

Posted May 31, 2019 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 15 Comments

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15 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Favorite Fantasy Book

  1. This is a tough choice! Usually they are all pretty similar but these are all really different. I think I like the Dutch cover best too.

  2. What an excellent choice, Tammy:)). I love them all – but for me I think it’s a tie between the US and UK, with the US cover just edging it…

  3. Love this book and also the cover you chose. it was the one that stood out for me which is unusual because I’m not usually a fan of photographed real life people on covers – this one just really works for me though.
    Lynn πŸ˜€

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