Friday Face-Off: Wolf
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:
“He had killed man, the noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of the law of club and fang.”
~ a cover featuring a WOLF
Mogsy’s Pick:
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
This is a good one for a cold winter night, when all you want to do is to curl up on the couch with a nice warm cup of cocoa and a sweet tale of puppy love. Shiver was a book I read a while ago (pre-blogging) so I can’t say I recall too many details beyond the romance, but certainly its concept of werewolves that shift depending on temperature change is one that has stayed with me. Let’s take a look at some of the covers:
From left to right:
Scholastic Press (2009) – Scholastic (2011) – Scholastic Inc. (2014)
German Edition (2010) – French Edition (2010) – Portuguese Edition (2010)
Italian Edition (2009) – Bulgarian Edition (2010) – Polish Edition (2011)
Indonesian Edition (2010) – Polish Edition (2015) – Russian Edition (2011)
Portuguese Edition (2014) – Chinese Edition (2010) – Italian Edition (2011)
Winner:
Tough choice this week, as many of these are drop dead gorgeous. Still, I must confess that the whole reason I even read Shiver in the first place was because it was a impulsive cover buy. The delicate beauty and pale icy blues of original 2009 Scholastic hardcover edition immediately drew me to it when I first spied on a bookstore shelf years ago, so I’m choosing it as my winner because I find I still love it just as much now than I did then.
But what do you think? Which one is your favorite?
The BiblioSanctum 
I didn’t know there were so many! I loved this series btw. I think I like the Scholastic Inc. (2014)
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Yeah, there are a lot! And I also can’t believe it’s been almost 10 years since it came out!
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The German one! It is something about it, though that Chinese one looks good too
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The German cover is really sweet. It reflects the story well!
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Ooh wolves. Nice covers! I like that SCholastic 2009 one as well, and the Scholastic 2014 with that blue cover- LOVE it! Thos are my faves.
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Scholastic put out some great covers for this book!
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I like the Indonesian cover best as I love that wolf art work.
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I agree, the art style is really interesting.
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For me it’s a cross between the 2015 Polish edition and Portuguese edition. It seems I’m always drawn to the Portuguese editions for some reason.
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I’m guessing you mean the Portuguese 2014 edition (there are two Portuguese covers up there) – I love the closeup image of the wolf too!
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I love this choice, there are so many beautiful covers! I have to say I’m drawn to the Polish cover for some reason, but it’s hard to choose!
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I like the Polish edition too, it looks like a movie poster!
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I loved this series! Also agree with your pick here, something about that cover is really appealing to me.
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The light blues they used are so pretty. It really gives off a “cold” vibe too, which really fits the book!
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Going with the wolf theme, I must say that the Portuguese edition is the one I find more appealing, and the color choice conveys the right amount of chill… 🙂
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There are actually two Portuguese editions up there, but I have to agree in either case, since both are wonderful 😀
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Wow – what a great choice. I’m going with your favourite this week although I love the Portuguese one too
Lynn 😀
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Lots of love for the Portuguese editions this week!
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This is a tough choice! I really like a lot of them! But I think I like the Chinese and Italian editions best!
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Actually, if I had to choose a second choice, it would probably be the Chinese edition! I love it 🙂
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Oh wow! You know what? I actually love all of them this time! And the German version is -again – VERY beatiful 🙂 I’d pick that!
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Yes, this book was definitely blessed by the cover gods! 😀
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