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 wicked grin.
The first two books I thought of for this theme, The Shining and It, are books I’ve already used on other Friday Face-Offs, so I had to do a bit of brainstorming. I decided to go with Krampus by Brom, but there are only two covers, so this will be a side-by-side comparison:
HarperVoyager edition, 2012. Not sure if he’s actually grinning, but let’s go with it! I love this cover, it’s so disturbing, right? That tongue alone is going to give me nightmares… I like the way the lower half of the cover looks like ice or snow, since this is a story centered around Christmas.
German edition 2013. Now this is a wicked grin! LOL. I really love both covers, so it’s hard to pick a favorite, but this wins by a hair because you get to see more of the Yule Lord’s scary body. I haven’t read this book but seeing these covers makes me want to!
Difficult choice indeed: both covers are terrifyingly good! 😉
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Neither one! They’re both terrifying.
Lindsi @ Do You Dog-ear?
Omg this is perfection. I’d probably go with the second, it really is a wicked grin – but then again that first cover is just terrifying!
Lynn 😀
I really enjoyed this book, it was a lot more fun than I thought it’d be. And it has me wanting to read more of his stuff. As for covers, I go with the first one.
Oooooooooh! I love these so much!!! The perfect creepy covers!!!
Very good choice…lol. 🙂
I’d go for the first one. It’s the one I own too! Nice choice for this feature, Tammy! 😀
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What a fabulous choice! It would have to be the first cover – what a wicked, wicked smirk:)).