Friday Face-Off: Bonfire Night
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:
“Remember, remember the fifth of November”
~ a cover reminiscent of BONFIRE NIGHT
Mogsy’s Pick:
Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor
This week’s was a tricky one. Bonfire Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Night or Firework Night, is an annual celebration in Great Britain commemorating the foiling of the Gun Powder Plot on the 5th of November 1605, when Guy Fawkes was arrested while guarding explosives that had been planted beneath Parliament. And that’s pretty much the extent of my knowledge into this holiday, being a mostly culturally specific to the UK, though of course many other countries also have their own variations Bonfire Night, celebrating different traditions or on different dates of the year.
Anyway, I deferred to Lynn’s advice for this one, and went with a book cover depicting fires and fireworks, or in general anything that looked historical with big glittery celebrations. I’ve chosen Days of Blood & Starlight, the second book in Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, which perhaps apropos to today’s topic also features a tale of political conspiracies and secret plots. But mostly I had to bend the rules a little today, hence my changing of “inspired by” to “reminiscent of” Bonfire Night, since I could not come up with a book I’ve read directly related to the events of the Gun Powder Plot.
Let’s take a look at the covers:
From left to right:
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers HC (2012) – Hodder & Stoughton HC (2012) – Hodder Paperbacks (2013)
German Edition (2013) – Italian Edition (2013) – Portuguese Edition (2015)
Hodder Tesco Exclusive (2013) – Italian Edition (2016) – Dutch Edition (2014)
Czech Edition (2014) – Polish Edition (2013) – Hungarian Edition (2014)
Serbian Edition (2017) – Chinese Edition (2013) – Korean Edition (2014)
Winner:
I don’t think I’ve ever chosen a German edition winner before, but there’s just something so lovely about this one. The fiery colors contrasted with the girl’s icy blue glare gives this cover a certain intensity.
But what you do think? Which one is your favorite?
The BiblioSanctum 
Ooh I’m a big fan of that first cover, and most of the covers for this series. My next favorite would be the German one, for sure.
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I agree, most of there are really pretty! They make good use of the mask imagery.
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Black and gold all the way for me!
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Love that color combo!
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That’s many different covers! My fave is the first one!
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Yeah, I didn’t even feature all of them here!
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My index finger just wants to go “poke, poke, poke”…
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I don’t know what that means! XD
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An eye just sitting there, staring at me. It makes me want to poke it…
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Okay, that’s morbid but funny! I would never have made that connection, you psycho! 😛 😉
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See, this is one of the reasons I don’t work at a big box store as part of a “team” 😀
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Bonfire Night here in the UK is a total waste of time for me! But anyway, lets focus on the covers! I agree with your choice-it is visually stunning!
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Haha, I wouldn’t know, we don’t really have anything like that here.
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Looking at the covers, I think a lot of them are really great for these books, I think it would be hard to choose for me!
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Yes, a lot of strong choices this week 😀
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That’s a lot of covers! I think I like the Hodder & Stoughton HC (2012)
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I really like that one too. Gorgeous use of color.
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There are some interesting covers here. I kind of like the Hungarian 2014 edition😁
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I like the wings as opposed to just a straight up mask 😀
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I like the Portoguese, but it is not very fitting
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Ah well, as long as it’s pretty 😀
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Good choice, there are both the elements of fire and of mystery, with the partial view of a masked face. I also like the Hodder paperback cover for its stark contrast between the black background and the gold/flames motif in the center.
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The gold and black combo is always effective 😀
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I didn’t realize how many there are!
I like the first three. The color combos are pretty.
Karen @ For What It’s Worth
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Oh yeah there are a ton of covers for this book. I guess because it was a really popular series 🙂
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ooh I love your pick!!
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It was a tough choice, but I had to go with that one 🙂
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I would go with the classic Little Brown Book LOL But yours is a close second!
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Nothing wrong with going for the classic! There’s a timeless look to it, so i can understand 😀
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I love the German one too!
The hungarian one looks a bit like Red Rising, and the Chinese version is like a straight up horror book 😀 Nice and all, just doesn’t match the story. Not that i’ve read it, so what do i know.
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LOL, I thought the same thing when I saw the Chinese edition. The house looks downright bloody!
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The German edition really is lovely, and I like that it sort of takes the US cover and make it its own style. I also really like the Hodder & Stoughton one–it’s simple, but I like the style. These were fun to explore!
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The Hodder & Stoughton would have been my second choice. I just love the flame!
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Ooo… aren’t these covers allll beautiful?? And I agree with you – actually it was the cover I’d already chosen before I saw it was also your favourite. Fabulous choice for this theme:)
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It really is quite eye catching! Cool how you picked that one out too 😀
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Great minds and all that!
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