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 series you love.
I thought it would be fun to highlight the covers of some of my favorite series I’ve read and loved over the past few years. Note: these aren’t the only series I’m loving, but they are the ones with fantastic cover design, where all the covers “match.” I’ve also selected only those series that have at least three books out right now. And finally, these are all U.S. covers. Let’s take a look!
The Rampart Trilogy by M.R. Carey
You guys know how much I love this series, and I love the covers too. I like the way they get progressively more covered in plants as the series goes along, until the final book when it’s almost hard to read the book title.
The Frost Files by Jackson Ford
This is another great example of a series with matching covers. It’s very important both from a marketing standpoint and a visual one. Readers love covers that match, right?
The Carter Archives by Dan Stout
OK, we’re three for three! Another series with a really strong “series design” that stays consistent. I also want to point out that in these first three examples, each series has an important repeating word: “Koli,” “Sh*t” and “Titan.” Well done guys:-D
Consortium Rebellion by Jessie Mihalik
Jessie’s series doesn’t have repeating words, but all three books follow the same “noun verb” pattern. I adore these covers, I think they are so well done!
The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne
The Naturalist series covers are simple but effective. They show that this is a series based on science, and showing scenes from the natural world fits perfectly with the stories. Also, although they are simple, the items on the covers, like bones, unknown animal fur and a broken wood plank over churning water give a sense of unease.
Donovan by W. Michael Gear
I think the covers in this series work really well together. First you notice that all the books are one word titles. Next, they all have something ominous on the cover that alludes to the story in some way. Even though each one is a little different, the publisher kept the title/author fonts consistent. (Although Adrift has a font change, I just noticed.)
These are awesome! And yes, I definitely want my series covers to go together! The Koli books look so pretty together. One of my favorites is the Walking Dead trade paperback volumes — if you put them side by side, the pictures all connect.
I love when the covers connect like that!
I also love many of these series and a couple are still on my tbr.
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I don’t read as many series as you, but I’m glad we have some crossover.
I love it when all the covers in a series fit together. That’s why I hate cover changes mid-series. I’m fine with cover changes when the series is done but not in the middle of it. It has happened so much to me.
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I agree, it’s very frustrating!
You left the best for last indeed! And Adrift promises to be quite an adrenaline-infused ride… 🙂
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Yes, I can’t wait for Adrift!
I was already aware that “let’s just change the color!” is a popular theme in cover design for books in a series, but wow, seeing all these kinda drives that home!
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I honestly didn’t realize I chose the “color change” examples, lol.
All of them are great. My favs are The Frost Files and Donovan.
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I really love the Donovan covers:-)
I love it when a series fits together, I have several that the look has changed so they don’t match and it annoys me no end! Koli is such a good series, I’m taking my time to properly take it all in.
Koli is a pretty special series:-)
I’m sorry I’m late to this – what a fantastic, well thought out post. I love it.
Lynn 😀