Friday Face-Off: Widdershins Adventures
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:
FREEBIE!
Mogsy’s Pick:
Widdershins Adventures by Ari Marmell
It’s not every day Friday Face-Off gets a freebie topic, so I wanted to take this opportunity to do something special. Instead of pitting a bunch of covers against each other, I’ve decided to showcase one of my favorite cover sets, that of the Widdershins Adventures by Ari Marmell, published by Pyr. The series follows a scrappy young thief who lives in a world where every person, from the wealthiest noble to grimiest street urchin, worships one of the dozens of gods approved by the Hallowed Pact. But what happens if one of those gods wind up riding shotgun in your head?
There are four books in the series, and I think cover artist Jason Chan has done a phenomenal job capturing the different facets of our protagonist’s personality for each one, from impish and playful to serious and introspective. I also love the minimalist concept, the use of white space and limited color, and of course, the full set of hardcovers look amazing on my shelf. Feast your eyes on these beauties:
The BiblioSanctum 
Impressive. I heartily approve minimalist covers…
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And so elegant and stylish!
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Those are lovely covers and they all look great together. I went for something similar today pitching two sets of covers from the same series against each other.
Lynn 😀
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There were other editions of this series too, but I thought I’d give these the spotlight by themselves 😀
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I can see why you wanted to feature them. The covers are really cool and I like how they all coordinate so well. Great choice!
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I love series where the book covers match!
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I love these covers! And I saw your comment on Lynn’s blog, I didn’t know this was the same artist who did the Nevernight books😁
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Yep, Jason Chan’s done a lot of fantasy covers! He also did Mark Lawrence’s series as well as Jay Kristoff’s first series the Lotus War 😀
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Oeh, these look amazing! And I think I’ll have to check them out… thanks 😁
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Yeah, these are some of my favorite covers, and the books are fun too!
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These covers look great (: I also haven’t heard of this series before but it definitely sounds intriguing. I’m going to look it up on Goodreads and probably end up adding it to my neverending TBR 😅
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I love these books and they’re so underrated! In general But then in general I find Pyr’s books are underrated, lol!
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Yes I must admit I’m not sure if I’ve heard of the Publisher before. I’ll definitely have to keep an eye out for these though as they sound great.
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Oh wow! What a fabulous set of covers – they look marvellous, no wonder you wanted to feature the series. And I particularly like the fact that there isn’t a bare anything:))).
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Haha yes, it’s a female in leather, but badass and tasteful 🙂
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Absolutely:))
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Beautiful covers! I particularly like the first one, with the character hanging upside-down from a beam: that image says “adventure!!” loud and clear indeed… 🙂
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I love that one too! When I read it, I always thought I had the book upside down 😀
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I like the last one the best 🙂 I have all 4
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The fourth one is my favorite as well 🙂
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These are great!! I love that they’re so similar and minimalistic 💙 Jen
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The artist definitely uses the gray scale to his advantage! Love how each only has a dash of color, if at all!
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OH MYYY!! 😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️ THESE COVERS ARE ABSOLUTELY BREATHTAKING! DAMN!! 😍😍😍❤️❤️ The white background and the SHEER SIMPLICITY of these beauties…ARRRGHHHHH….I am in LOOVE! IN LOOOVEEE WITH THEM! AND NOW I FUCKING HAVE TO READ THIS SERIES!!! 😍😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Haha, hope you get to check it out!
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These definitely look reaaaaallly good! I love when there’s a pattern between each book, with minimal colours. Thanks for sharing! 😀
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Yeah, I didn’t realize how well the first and second covers went together until I made this post and put them beside each other 😀
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I sooo understand why they are your favorite set of covers Mogsy!!!!
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They’re beautiful, right? 🙂
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Oh, I really love the covers here, so interesting. Everything from the angles to the fonts is visually appealing to me.
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I love how the different aspects work together too! Love how the artist kept everything so minimalist including the writing.
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Oh I love these covers! Especially the first one and the third one. Very nice.
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I really like the first one too, upside down Widdershins is so cheeky 🙂
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Oooo these are nice cover and how have I not heard of this series!?
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They came out from Pyr a few years ago, and I definitely think they deserve more attention!
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These covers are amazing!!
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