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 cover that is highly stylized.
I’m not sure if this counts as highly stylized, but I think it works. I’ve chosen Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian, because of the stylized crowns on the cover. I just found three covers, here they are:
This is the default cover for many editions of this book, and for good reason. It’s an excellent cover! I’ll call this the 2018 U.S. hardcover edition, and I love the ash crown which almost looks like a chandelier. I think everything about this cover is lovely, and it’s my favorite.
2018 U.S. Kindle edition. This crown is the most stylized of the bunch and looks like it’s made of fire, with ashes flying off it. I really like this one too, and I LOVE the title font.
2018 Serbian edition. Wow, I love this too! This book doesn’t have a bad cover that I’ve seen. This crown looks more crown-like than the others, and I love the way you can see burning embers at the base.
2018 Romanian edition. And another great cover! This crown is made entirely of crumbling ash, and I think the simple cover design makes it stand out. I’m still choosing the first cover as my favorite, but this was a tough call!
Ohhh! I like the first cover! Those red highlights could be fire, but they could also be blood, which makes it very interesting when paired with the image of a crown… 😉
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Yeah, I also lean towards the first cover. And I also thought it looked like a chandelier. I do like the creepiness of the crumbling crown on the Romanian cover.
Oh wow – you are right, Tammy:). There isn’t a bad cover amongst this lot. I am going for a tie, because I simply cannot choose between the first and last covers. They are both beautiful and eye-catching in their brilliant design!
I love this choice for this week! It really is a beautiful cover, I have to agree. I actually really like all of these I think, especially the US hardcover, Kindle, and Romanian! My top two would be that original and Romanian one, I love the color scheme of the Romanian. 🙂
I love the US hardcovers for all three books in the series. They’re so pretty!
The first one is my favorite cover as well. It’s so beautiful!
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The first and the last are SO beautiful to me.
I like the first cover the best.
You’re right, these are all great covers! I think my the last one is my favorite.
This is absolutely perfect to be honest. And I love the first cover.
Lynn
Oh nice pick. I love how they all stuck with that one theme for the cover too. Not sure which I’d pick!