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: “A thin, grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold, for summer was in England.” – A cover with mist/fog.
For today’s prompt, I decided to go with The Deep by Alma Katsu. There are definitely some mist/fog vibes going on here. In case you aren’t familiar with this book, it’s a fictional/horror retelling of the Titanic disaster. It was pretty good, but not my favorite Katsu book. Let’s take a look at these gorgeous covers!
This is the U.S. hardcover G.P. Putnam’s Sons edition, which I really like. You can see the misty skies around the ship and the full moon. This cover conveys the eerie quality of the story but also gives it a romantic flair, which I really like.
This is the UK cover from Bantam Press. It’s a similar idea showing both what’s happening under the water as well as above. I think this gives more of an eerie feel to the story with the ghost/girl’s hair floating in the waves.
This beautiful Bulgarian edition uses the same color scheme as the first two, and in fact contains the same elements, but we get a slightly different perspective as the artist has tilted the scene. This is my favorite cover, although it’s almost a tie for me with the UK cover.
Finally, we have the newly released U.S. paperback edition, which takes a much different approach. I like this one as well, it definitely makes it clear that this is historical fiction with the woman standing at the boat railing in her period dress. However, the menacing quality is absent in this cover, so I don’t think it works as well as the others.
These covers are all pretty nice, especially the first three. I just love blue covers! But if I had to choose one I’d go with the UK cover, I think.
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Yeah, the UK is my second fave:-)
I really like the US hardcover edition the most.
It is really pretty:-)
I lean towards the first cover, something about the overall design. That last cover just seems strange with the blue to the right. Is that supposed to be waves? Or the ghostly presence?
I think it’s just a design, nothing more. Weird right?
I love the UK cover! (That’s almost always the case with me, though.)
I often love UK covers the best too:-)
I instantly thought of The Deep when I read that prompt, too! I didn’t realize it had so many different covers already, either. I really like the first US cover, which captures a really ominous atmosphere perfectly, but as you said, almost romanticizes it. I do like the Bulgarian cover, too. I dunno, I don’t really like the US paperback edition. Maybe because it doesn’t have that creepy, paranormal feel to it that the others have?
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The paperback definitely gives a completely different vibe, maybe to draw in a different kind of reader?
I like the UK edition!
Me too!
I prefer the US hardcover version. I like the huge ship coming toward you and the great fish below swimming toward it. It’s really cool.
It is a beautiful cover:-)
A great choice for this week’s theme:)). I think it has to be the UK cover for me… the hair underneath the liner works really well. But I’m frustrated by the final cover – if only they’d been braver and bi-sected the cover with the strange blue otherness, instead of having it nibbling at the edge, it would have been so much more visually arresting! Thank you for sharing, Tammy:))
I think with the last cover they were trying to “match” the paperback for her last book, The Hunger. I don’t think it’s very effective, though.
It’s interesting how they all have a lot of similarities! I do prefer the US hardcover one though.! 😀
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I like the US one too but it’s almost too romantic for the story, I think.
The US paperback really does change the tone of the novel. I think I like the original US hardcover the most, though I actually am really drawn to the Bulgarian one as well.
My favourite is the UK version – something about the hair floating in the water just gives me the chills.
Lynn 😀
The UK cover, I’m biased!
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Ooooh, I love this pick! I’m kind of in love with that Bantam cover. 🙂