The Friday Face-Off: Tentacles!

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: Tentacles – “The sea brought you. The sea shall have you back.”

I had one book in mind as soon as I saw this prompt, and even though there are only three covers, I decided to feature it anyway. Harrison Squared by Daryl Gregory was a fun YA story with Lovecraftian overtones. I met the author at Comic Con several years ago and he said he was working on a sequel to Harrison Squared. But who knows what happened with that, since I haven’t heard of any upcoming books by him, sadly enough. Take a look at these covers:

Tor Books 2015 edition. I like this fairly simple design, with Harrison surrounded by a sea monster. I think the font treatment is really well done too. This is my favorite cover!

Titan Books 2015 (UK) edition. This cover is even simpler than the first one! I love the idea of the tentacle breaking through the lifebuoy and the bright yellow background, but the fonts are really boring, and it’s like the designer wasn’t even trying. Also, all that empty yellow space is wasted, in my opinion.

Le Bélial 2020 (French) edition. I like this cover a lot! The French title is Harrison Harrison, because that’s the full name of the main character. And that weird looking leg floating in the center? Well, spoiler, but Harrison has a prosthetic leg. This is my second favorite cover.


Which cover is your favorite?

Posted July 3, 2020 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 17 Comments

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17 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Tentacles!

  1. None of the covers jump out at me, but each have elements I like. In the first I like the boy with clenched fists walking through the infested waters. In the second I love that center graphic of the tentacle smashing through the wood and lifebouy. And in the third I really like the classic feel of it, blue background, dark tentacles everywhere. Interesting selection!

  2. I own a physical copy of this book and never even realized those were tentacles. And you KNOW how much I love tentacles on books. I actually really like the yellow one the best but I agree, they could have made better use of space and fonts.

  3. Love the quote for this week’s theme! Also, the prompt made me giggle a bit, because I apparently have a dirty mind. xD I think the French edition was my favorite! So neat that the main character has a prosthetic leg and that made the cover!

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