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.
Hehe I love that floating leg! Completely agree with your choices though!
The middle cover is my favorite: I like the image of the tentacle breaking out – and somehow the yellow background tones down the fear of the tentacled creature’s incursion… 🙂
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I love all three of these covers. I like how atmospheric the first cover is and I like the bright quirkiness of the other two.
I think the US cover is still my favorite. It would be great if one daybwe got to see more of Harrison.
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!
I kind of like all three. None that I love, but they’re all good.
Ewww, tentacles Haha, I think I like the first best as well. I really dislike yellow so the second one gets a thumbs down from me. 😛
The first one is my favorite and the third one is pretty fun too.
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I used this book way back for a past theme , I think . I just love the UK cover! It makes the book seem more quirky than it is, but it’s so eye catching!
We Are All Completely Fine has an older Harrison in it. I read before Harrison Squared.
All three are pretty interesting…lol. I think at one time I wanted to read this book but never got around to it. 🙂
I like the tentacles specifically better on the 2nd and 3rd, but overall I like the 1st. I couldn’t even tell that was a leg on the 3rd, I was confused trying to figure it out lol.
I like the Yellow one best even though its your least favorite haha. I don’t think the yellow space is wasted! I think it makes the image pop and more prominent.
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Nice picks! Really love the blue cover. 😀
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.
I love your choice but I think the blue cover with the floating leg has won me over.
Lynn 😀
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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!