The Friday Face-Off: Summer

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: “One swallow does not make a summer.” – A cover that makes you think of summer.

The book I chose this week makes me think of summer because it has the word “summer” in the title, lol. So I’m really being lazy this week! For some reason I couldn’t come up with a good “summer” looking cover, so I selected Summer of Night by Dan Simmons. And now that I look at these covers again, one of them has a bicycle on it, which definitely has a summer vibe. I remember spending my summers as a kid riding my bike all over town, so even though this is a horror story, I think it works. Here are some of my favorite covers:

G.P. Putnam’s Sons (U.S.) 1991 | Warner Books (U.S.) 2002

St. Martins Griffin (U.S.) 2011 | Serbian edition 2015

Guild Publishing 1991 | Czech edition 1999

Subterranean Press edition 2016 | Spanish edition 2019

These are all so different, and to be quite honest, none of them really makes me shout “Wow I LOVE this cover!” But I will pick one anyway. The G.P. Putnam’s Sons is the edition I have, so for nostalgia’s sake, I’m choosing that one. But I also really love the Serbian edition!

Let me know if you have a favorite:-D

Posted June 7, 2019 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 19 Comments

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19 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Summer

  1. All of these covers give me a totally different sense of the book. The Spanish edition looks like a thriller, some of them look like a good ghost story, the Czech edition look like bizarre 70s/80s sci-fi. I think I’d have to read it to pick a favorite!

  2. What an interesting choice! I love the fact that there is such a range of covers for this book – so I’ve no idea whether it’s horror or just a creepy thriller… My favourite is the Subterranean Press cover with the children around the camp fire, because it looks quite cosy and summery:)). It probably isn’t, though!

  3. I like that one as well as the Serbian edition for some reason. I read this books years and years ago (in fact, it’s probably been about 15 which REALLY makes me feel old this morning). I really enjoyed it and although I don’t reread a lot, I can see myself revisiting this one at some point. I love the old truck in front.

  4. Well, they are all quite creepy! πŸ˜€
    I really like the two covers from the 90’s! It’s hard to decide but maybe i prefer the one with just the house. The creepy child and the worm things are just too much πŸ˜€

  5. Ooooh, I didn’t realize Summer of Night had SO many different covers. I read it way back when and can’t remember which cover was one. I think it was a mass market paperback though.

  6. Hmm, I think I like the Guild Publishing 1991 cover more because of the colors.
    This reminds me that I need to read more of Dan Simmons’s books. I’ve only read one so far – Song of Kali – and really liked it.

  7. This is a great choice – because I’ve not seen this book before!
    I love your choice and also the one directly next to it – although that really does have a horror vibe doesn’t it.
    Lynn πŸ˜€

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