Friday Face-Off: Festival/Party/Celebration
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:
“As full of spirit as the month of May”
~ a cover featuring a FESTIVAL/PARTY/CELEBRATION
Mogsy’s Pick:
The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski
For all the books I’ve read featuring glamorous parties, galas, masquerades, festivals, and celebrations, etc., I found that shockingly few of them actually show them on their covers, to my great frustration! In the end, I decided to go with The Winner’s Curse because I definitely remember a ball or some grand party taking place in it, and the character on the cover is certainly dressed for one in any case.
From left to right:
Farrar Straus Giroux (2014) – Square Fish (2016)
German Edition (2018) – Czech Edition (2018)
Serbian Edition (2017) – Persian Edition (2017)
Winner:
What can I say, I’m a sucker for pretty dresses.
But what do you think? Which one is your favorite?
The BiblioSanctum 
Mogsy this is one of my fav!!!! And yes I agree with you on the cover choice!
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Glad you think so too! BTW, I never finished the trilogy, I really need to do that! 😀
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We definitely need more galas/ parties on covers! I like the one you picked too, as well as the Persian edition (that dagger!!) and the German edition (the rose petals are a nice touch).
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You would think parties would be on many more covers, right? Considering how prevalent they are in books. But this week’s topic was HARD.
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In france they used the same cover as the Farrar Straus Giroux and I love this one too
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Yes, it’s so pretty! I love beautiful dresses on covers.
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Wow, I really like the German edition!
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I quite like the petal motif too!
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This was tough, right? In my head there was a cool Mardi Gras cover somewhere that I could use, but I couldn’t find it😉 I do love both the FSG and the Square Fish covers, I think it’s the color I love.
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I actually had this one book in mind that was set during Mardi Gras, and it had a cover that was somewhat related. Pity that there was only the one though, no other editions!
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OMG – why did I pick this theme – could I find a cover!!! Flippin eck.
Anyway, I went with Alice and the Mad Hatter’s tea party but I felt like I’d let myself down – I know there must be a book out there that fits this.
Anyhow – I like your choice, it looks like the girl is sinking below water – like the dress looks like liquid somehow.
I’m not making any sense at all so I’ll just shut up and go away….
Lynn 😀
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Haha, no worries, some of these are tougher, but I like the challenge 😀
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I do wonder what kind of party the lady in the right-hand cover, first row, would attend with a knife in both hands, but who am I to comment on someone’s choice of accessories?
😀 😀 . 😀
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Haha, yeah, I’m not a fan of the new cover they did, it reminds me too much of Throne of Glass!
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I think the second with a few changes could have been great, but I will go with the first one
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Me too, I do kinda like the second one, but it might be a bit on the generic side.
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I can’t say I’m that keen on any of the covers this week but I’d go with the Czech edition I think…
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I think that one gets overlooked a lot, but it IS quite pretty 🙂
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The Serbian one looks classy! 😀
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Agreed! It almost reminds me of the art on some of those ancient Greek urns. It does stand out because of how different it looks!
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I like the German 2018 edition best! The dark pink of the petals contrasted with shiny silver of the knife is very striking! I like the one you picked too but I don’t like the words covering the picture.
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None of these are super stand out to me, but I do like the one you ended up going with. I mean, there’s a pretty dress involved so I’m in, lol.
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I like how chic the Serbian one looks, but yours is my second choice! I really enjoy how it looks with the rest of the trilogy; matching covers is my weakness. Also yes, pretty dresses. 😉
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Yeah I like this one too!
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