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 book involving a quest.
I’m hoping I interpreted this week’s theme correctly! This was easy, and I decided to pick a recent read, Eversion by Alastair Reynolds, which already has three different covers, with many more to follow, I’m sure. The story revolves around a quest to find a mysterious Edifice and takes place in four different time periods. You really should read it! Here are the covers I found:
U.S. cover, Orbit 2022. This is the edition I read, and to be honest the cover doesn’t give you a very good idea of what the story is about. It makes it look like it’s set in space (it is but only for part of the book). So you won’t be surprised to learn this is my least favorite cover.
UK cover, Gollancz 2022. OK, this is much better! The Gollancz edition gives you a better idea of all the different “ships” involved in the story (although I don’t remember there being a balloon, lol). I love how space is a upside down reflection, which goes with the idea of “eversion.”
Finnish cover, Like 2022. Another cover with balloons! Did I miss something? LOL. This cover incorporates the Edifice (the upside down mountain) which is VERY important to the story, so props to the cover artist. I’m sort of sad that none of the covers feature a sailing or steam ship, another important element.
As for my favorite? It’s a toss-up between the UK and Finnish covers, but overall I like the UK cover the best. The title/author font is better designed, and I love the skewed perspective.
I prefer the Finnish cover, with UK a very close second. But my favourite part of this whole piece is you wondering about the balloons! That alone made me want to read the book to see where there’s balloons!! 🙂
LOL I’m losing it, Caroline! Someone else who’s read the book needs to tell me if there are balloons;-)
The UK cover is my favorite too.
It is the best;-) And I love the colors.
I really like all three of these covers but if I have to choose one I think I’d pick the first one! 😀
it definitely has more of a sci-fi vibe:-)
I like the colors of the last cover. Your comments point to the fact that often I think cover designers have really no real idea what the book is about! Sad
I need to try this one
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Ha ha well it’s entirely possible I missed the part with the balloons, lol. It’s a rather intricate plot!
UK cover!
Yes!
They’re all fab covers, but I like the Finish cover the best because of the prominent balloons and the unusual, pastel color palette.
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I love the Finnish cover as well. I’m sure there will be many more covers coming in the next few years:-)
I like the second cover. The cover for the last one has colors that really pop out.
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We share the same favorite:-)
I like all the covers but my favorite is the top one.
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I think he got pretty lucky with all three covers:-)
I prefer the US cover, but that’s likely just because it looks most similar to what I’m used to for Reynolds covers. And yet the other two are very interesting for maybe giving an idea of some of what’s in the book. This is one I’ll certainly read at some point, though I’m very behind with his books right now.
I’ll be curious to see what you think when you do read it:-)
The last one is my favorite!
I love it too:-)
I like the UK cover very much. The colouring appeals to me and all the aspects that the cover brings into play.
Lynn 😀