The Friday Face-Off: Snakes

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: “Hi little cub. Oh no, don’t be ssscared.” – A cover featuring a snake.

This was a surprisingly hard topic for me, but thanks to Google (“book covers with snakes”) I found a book I read years ago that actually has a few covers with snakes on them. The Little Friend was Donna Tartt’s follow-up to her extremely popular The Secret History. I don’t remember many details about the story, but I think “snake” was a thematic rather than an actual element. Take a look:

U.S. hardcover edition 2002 | Italian edition 2004

Italian edition 2015 | Turkish edition 2017

Croatian edition 2008 | Romanian edition 2011

Spanish edition 2014 | Hebrew edition 2005

So there are quite a variety of covers for this book, and none of them really wows me, I have to admit. And some are downright creepy. (I’m looking at you, Croatian edition!) This would have been a great choice for the “doll” theme, which I believe is one of the past themes? I don’t really like either of the snake covers, so I’m choosing the Italian edition as my favorite, simply because I love the simple yet effectively creepy design:

Have you read The Little Friend? Which cover do you like best?

Posted February 8, 2019 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 17 Comments

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17 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Snakes

  1. I did read this book but I think I picked it up with sky high expectations and so although the writing was impressive ultimately it didn’t work out well for me. I can’t remember the snake or what the significance was – I love your choice of cover – there’s just something creepy about it.
    Lynn πŸ˜€

  2. I think the covers are all creepy – especially the doll ones! I like your choice the best – yes… it was a tricky one to track down this week, wasn’t it? But the thing that strikes me is that if you gathered the different covers together and explained they were all featuring the same book, I don’t know if I’d believe you if it weren’t for the title and author splashed across the front! Interesting selection, Tammy:)

  3. So this has become my MUST STOP by place Fridays because wow you always have the best covers here! These are so good and creepy! Nothing creepier than this kind of dolls. Though I love snakes too so this is a hard one!

  4. Ooh I didn’t even think of this one, great choice! I agree the one you chose has a very nice simple look, but still perfectly creepy. I also like the Turkish edition quite a bit. These are some interesting covers, haha.

  5. I think I like the Spanish edition best because it shows that the book is creepy without actually being creepy itself Tho the one you chose is probably actually best, I don’t like the creepy dolls!
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