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: “I wandered lonely as a cloud.” – A cover that is predominantly yellow.
I love these color prompts because I get to show off a bunch of different books that all have the same color cover. Yellow is surprisingly hard, maybe because for marketing purposes, it’s not a color that seems to be chosen that often. However, I did come up with twelve different yellow covers for books that I’ve read, and here they are:
Hard to pick a favorite, as they are all so different. But seeing all these books together brings back some fond memories! Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, and The Heart Does Not Grow Back are books I read at least five years ago, and I loved each one.
I agree with you about Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, but I also love Recursion.
I think I love the cover of Recursion more than Mr. Penumbra, but love both books:-)
I absolutely love this. Do t they all look fantastic together. And now I want to read Vampires in the Lemon Grove.
Lynn
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I love when you have color prompts, and I’ll do it this way every time that happens:-)
There are some great covers here but I have to admit, that I loved The Rules of Magic so much that it definitely influences my choice this week. I also still have that RS Belcher book on my shelves somewhere – I need to find it!
You should read Brotherhood of the Wheel, it’s really good!
So many wonderful covers. I want to read The Sisters Of The Winter Wood so I’m making that my favorite this time.
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It’s gorgeous, isn’t it?
I’m torn between Heartstone (because dragons always win me over) and Vampires in the Lemon Grove (because vampires are my favorite evil creatures). Ah, choices… choices… 😉
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You would probably enjoy Vampires in the Lemon Grove, they are speculative fiction short stories:-)
My favorite cover is Heartstone. I’ve always been drawn to dragons, and that’s a great cover with one. But the books I’d choose would be The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (there’s that dragon again!) and The Brotherhood of the Wheel. Very different books but I really enjoyed them both.
Heartstone is a great cover, and the story is pretty good too:-)
Ooh I like these. Sometimes yellow covers are awesome! Jurassic Florida is my favorite hands down- I’ve always loved that cover! Recursion and Penumbra’s are great too. I love Dragon Tattoo as well.
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I agree, Jurassic Florida is so eye catching, and the colors have a lot to do with that.
What a cool approach to this week’s subject, Tammy:)). You’ll be shocked to know that one of my favourites is The Rules of Magic and the other one is Recursion, as it is also attractive and also residing on my TBR pile…:)
I love how we both chose The Rules of Magic:-)
I am loving the yellow covers, Tammy. Like you said, they are rare and they are so sunny and happy.
They are happy, even the covers for the scarier stories!
It is hard to find yellow covers, I’ve tried too lol, but you did great! I like Sister of the Winter Wood.
It is hard. And some of these are more gold than yellow. Oh well, they look good together!
Love your post here. I think my favs are Mr. Penumbra’s and The Heart Does Not Grow Back.
Both excellent books:-)
Yeah, I find yellow isn’t too common for covers, but they do help a book leap right off a shelf! I almost went with Recursion or Girl with the Dragon Tattoo this week myself.
Yellow is so eye catching, I’m kind of surprised it’s not used more!
My answer is Jurassic Florida. Because dinosaurs.
Lol- but I like a lot of these actually. They should make more covers in yellow!
Yeah, I love the Jurassic Florida cover! I wasn’t that crazy about the story, though;-)
It seems the only good dinosaur stories are Jurassic Park.
Great pics, I love seeing all of these together. Yellow covers are hard to find!
Its hard not to pick Heartstone as my favorite cover because it is the only one of these I have read and I loved it! Judging just the covers I think I like The Rules of Magic and The Rule of One best!
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