Friday Face-Off: Cloaked Figure
Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a weekly meme created by Books by Proxy! Each Friday, we will pit cover against cover while also taking the opportunity to showcase gorgeous artwork and feature some of our favorite book covers. If you want to join the fun, simply choose a book each Friday that fits that week’s predetermined theme, post and compare two or more different covers available for that book, then name your favorite. A list of future weeks’ themes are available at Lynn’s Book Blog.
This week’s theme is:
“My what big teeth you have”
~ a cover featuring a CLOAKED FIGURE
Mogsy’s Pick:
Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes
There’s certainly no shortage of covers featuring cloaked or hooded figures in the fantasy genre. This week, I decided to go with the first book of Falling Kingdoms, a Young Adult series that has been compared to Game of Thrones. Admittedly, I was a bit skeptical at first; after all, when I think epic fantasy I picture vast sweeping sagas in big fat tomes, so you can imagine my surprise when it turned out I actually quite enjoyed this. Despite being such a slim volume, it contained an extensive and far-reaching scope. The story is set on a continent where the rulers of three separate kingdoms are locked in a bitter struggle for power, thus creating a hotbed for conspiracy, scandal, and intrigue.
Let’s take a look at the covers:
From left to right, top to bottom: Razorbill (2012) – German Edition A (2013) – German Edition B (2015) – Bulgarian Edition (2012)
Winner:
I confess, I already had a winner in mind when I selected this novel to feature this week. Hands down, the Razorbill cover is my favorite. It was the image that first compelled me to find out more about the series and which ultimately led me to pick it up.
What do you think? Which cover is your favorite?
The BiblioSanctum 
Ooo… what a fabulous cover! I haven’t read this book – or even heard of the series, but seeing that cover makes me want to. Thank you for sharing this one, Mogsy – you definitely aced it with that choice this week:))
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I think I’ve read three books in this series so far. It’s quite entertaining! I just have to catch up one of these days (I think it’s up to 5 books now) 🙂
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I think I would agree with you on your choice.
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It’s the clear winner 😀
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I agree this one is my fave as well
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Hear hear!
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That cover is excellent – definitely the clear winner for me this week.
Lynn 😀
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Yep, no contest 😀
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I agree with your choice and the only other one which comes close is probably German Edition B. The other two, I probably wouldn’t give a second glance if I look at them on a shelf.
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I agree, the only other cover to come close is that German edition!
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I like that one the best too. That cover has always caught my eye, a most of the covers of this series do- or at least the US versions that I have seen. The other one don’t do nearly as much for me as that Razorbil cover.
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Yeah, the US/Razorbill covers for this series are gorgeous. Actually, looking over them the other day, I just realized that ALL of them feature a cloaked figure too 😀
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I definitely agree with you! I can’t believe how long I’ve been wanting to read this book and STILL haven’t gotten to it yet!🙈
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I hope you get to check it out soon! It wasn’t bad at all…granted, I’ve only read three of the books (out of five so far, I think?) in this series but I’ve found them all pretty entertaining!
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Such different feels for each cover. The fist one, which is my fav too, is the assassain type story; German edition have my thinking a little more of a romance novel; and finally, the Bulgarian story, makes me thinking it is going to be one of those NPC video-game stories 😀
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Yeah, the Razorbill edition gave me some serious “assassin” vibes too. Maybe it’s the white outfit making me think Assassin’s Creed? 😛
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There was no contest for me: the hooded figure wielding not one, but TWO knives looked just perfect for the synopsis you gave for this story. A true winner, indeed 🙂
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Haha, yes, I love the dual wielding! 😀
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I think my favorite one is the German one, with the face 🙂
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That gaze is quite striking!
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Lol yea, the Razorbill one is my favorite too. It wasn’t a competition here. It easily won for me too. I love that cover and would love to read the book, though I know nothing about it, just for the cover.
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Indeed, whoever designed the cover definitely knew what they were doing! 😀
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Ah yes, the Germans like to put faces on their Fantasy novels. 😀 I’d choose the English one as well. Even the last comic-style one is better haha
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Haha, now I’ll have to pay extra attention to German editions to see how many of them are “face” covers! 😀
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Wow! I absolutely love that cover – gorgeous 😀 and definitely my favourite too. No competition at all!
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Yep, the clear winner this week!
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