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 character who is scantily dressed.
My first thought for this theme was to use a Hard Case Crime cover. Hard Case publishes pulp fiction, mostly detective novels and such, but Stephen King has had several Hard Case books and I’ve read them all. Unfortunately, I’ve already used all three in previous Friday Face-Offs, so I had to think of something else. But I wanted a cover with a guy on it, cause you know, equal opportunity, lol. The only one I could think of other than historical romances (which I don’t read) was Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. The US cover fits the bill, take a look:
St. Martin’s Press 2021 edition. Here’s my “scantily dressed” version of the book! I really love this cover and it’s probably my favorite of the two covers I could find.
Harper Voyager UK 2021 edition. No scantily dressed men here, but I do love this cover as well. Really it’s toss-up for me, I love both covers for different reasons.
That works!
This is a book where I do like both covers! 🙂
I do love the style of both covers for different reasons! Great pick for this feature, Tammy! 😀
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This is a great choice for this week’s topic! I really love the UK edition and as much as I love a lot of aspects of the US edition, I’d probably always choose the UK cover over the US every time, haha. I’m just a huge fan of Kerby Rosanes’ illustrations and work in general.
They are both great covers, but I’ll pick the 2nd for all the graphic elements.
I like the St. Martin’s Press cover. Because it’s unusual to have a character showing off his body on the cover and yet that body not be THE gist of the cover. I mean, look at that crazy tangle of big creatures behind him!
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I totally prefer the 2nd cover, neat style
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Great pick. Both covers are cool.
OMG I am laughing so hard!!! When I read scantily dressed I expected pinups or… but your choice is just perfect!!! Thank you for making me laugh Tammy, I needed it!
It is difficult to pick a favourite really .TBH I’m not usually a lover of scantily dressed characters on books but he is quite easy on the eye – also when you look more closely I love the way the blood is shaped into characters and I also prefer the font on the first cover – but then I look at the second cover and I just love all the little details.
Lynn 😀
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