Cover Lover: Children of Fire

Welcome to Cover Lover, a feature on this blog dedicated to book covers! For a long time, I’d wanted a place where I can share some of my favorite covers, or talk about any that might have caught my eye. So when I came across this idea on fellow gamer/book lover Angelya’s site The Oaken Bookcase, I jumped at the opportunity to adopt it as well. The “meme” was originally created by another friend of mine, Jaedia, on her book blog Once Upon A Time, so be sure to check out both their sites and take a look at some of the covers they have featured.

This afternoon, I came home to an email from fellow blog contributor Wendy, who linked me to British cover art of Drew Karpyshyn’s upcoming epic fantasy Children of Fire, as it appears Amazon UK had just put it up.

OH MY FREAKING GOD:

Yeah, so much cooler than the US cover:

Normally, I find UK covers are often more subdued, with less colors, are darker and less flashy, etc. In the case of Children of Fire, the UK version may feature the same color scheme, but totally blows the US version out of the water. As Wendy pointed out, the UK cover is majestic and really sets a tone. It makes you go, now that’s a book I want to read.