The Friday Face-Off: Monk or Priest

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: “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – A cover featuring a monk/priest/person of the cloth.

I just couldn’t pull a monk/priest book out of my brain this week, so I decided to feature a book I have NOT read, but one I’ve seen around quite a bit. The Dark Monk by Oliver Pötzsch was first published in Germany and is part of a series. Plus it’s got “monk” in the title, in addition to some covers featuring monks! Take a look:

U.S. Edition by Mariner Books 2012 | German edition 2009

Lithuanian edition 2012 | Russian edition 2014

Chinese edition 2013 | Bulgarian edition 2016

There are actually several covers that I really like, but I’m giving the win to the original German edition:

But tell me which is your favorite!

Posted January 25, 2019 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 15 Comments

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15 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Monk or Priest

  1. This is a great choice for this week’s theme – it was a bit tricky, wasn’t it? My favourite is the Russian one – I love the menace exuding from that chap as he grabs the girl… Have a great weekend, Tammy!

  2. Ooh, that’s an interesting quote to put a book cover to! The US edition is probably my favourite – I love the simplicity of it.

  3. Not sure any of these quite make me want to pick this book up. I think *maybe* the Chinese cover would make me pick it up to check it out just because we don’t see covers like that generally (with or without the Chinese characters I mean) — it’s the look of an old book, I think.

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