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: Holding an object.
This was a pretty easy theme, and I spotted a recent read right away: A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers. There are only three covers at the moment, but I love all of them:
This is the Redhook U.S. edition, just published this past February. I really love this cover, which is one reason I decided to pick up the book in the first place. The hazy figure of the witch, her beautiful gown, and the clock in her hands, which relates to the “time” in the title. I just think this cover is perfect and nothing, in my opinion, needs improvement. This is my favorite!
This German edition is quite different, but very pretty. It’s a little too generic and plain for my tastes, but I do like the title font a lot.
This is the Little, Brown edition, and I believe it’s UK version. I would say this is probably my least favorite, although I like the clock in the middle and the way the title is part of the clock.
All three a very cool covers. I really like the UK version, though, because the large clock face is cool.
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Ooooh these covers are actually all really nice. Hard to pick a favorite! But if I have to choose one I’d pick the UK version too. It’s beautiful!
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I love the first cover: apart from the color choice, the blurred-edges effect on the central figure is quite… magical 🙂
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I really love the first cover too. Every time I see it, it makes me want to read the book. Which reminds me that I of course still need to read the book, lol.
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I like all the covers!
What a great choice for this week’s choice, Tammy. While I LOVE the US cover, which as you say, is really beautiful – I also am very drawn to the UK cover. All those nifty details in the corners and the lovely hands, which presumably relate to the content of the book are talking to me, so I think that’s my favourite for this week:)).
I also like the Redhook edition. It has very classic feel to it, perhaps because of the color scheme. And a bit of mystery with that softness towards the top. And the clock, of course. Good choice!
They are all good, but the Redhook U.S. one is my fav as well. I also really like the border detail.
My favorite is the first one too!
I think these are all lovely covers! I’m quite drawn to the UK one for some reason, I think I just really love the blue color in the cover.
Hadn’t heard of this book before, but it’s pretty rare to like all the alt covers for a book. Still, I’m impressed, because they’re all gorgeous, and I for sure wouldn’t be able to pick a “favorite” out of them. xD
Nice pick! I kind of like all of these covers for different reasons. 🙂
I love the German edition. It just really calls to me.
Lynn 😀