Friday Face-Off: Lion
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:
“Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?”
~ a cover featuring a LION
Mogsy’s Pick:
Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
I think this is a theme we’ve done before, and I’m running out lion covers! Thankfully, I’ve read the first book of the Kate Daniels series which features lion shifters. Let’s take a look at some of the covers:
From left to right:
Ace Paperback (2007) – Ace Kindle (2009) – Gollancz (2010)
German Edition (2009) –Spanish Edition (2010) – Chinese Edition (2010)
Portuguese Edition (2015) – French Edition (2017) – Hungarian Edition (2015)
Polish Edition (2017) – Thai Edition (2016 – Russian (2020)
Winner:
I’m not sure I love any of the contenders this week, but I do find the Ace (2009) edition very pretty. It’s a very “generic UF” cover but I love the colors, and damn, that is one cool lion.
But what do you think? Which one is your favorite?
The BiblioSanctum 
I’ve only read about lion shifters once, I think it was more of a YA urban fantasy series, but it’s a neat idea. I like the one you picked out definitely the best, but I kinda like the Thai one too.
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There’s probably a lot more lion shifters in the genre of paranormal romance, but sadly I’m not too familiar 🙂
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Oh, man, Ilona Andrews duo really doesn’t have luck with covers- they never fit their books which are really fun.
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I know, some of these covers are awful, haha! But for a while there, I think most UF series looked like this! XD
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I like your pick Mogsy, but I also like the Ace 2007 paperback edition, too… The lion’s tawny eyes really stand out against the green:). I have just got hold of the first book in this series and it’s waiting to be read. Looking forward to it!
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Good point about the eyes! Though as a whole, I wish the lion stood out more on that cover 😀
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Yes… but isn’t it pretty! Not that I’m shallow and easily swayed by such things as lovelty covers. At all. Much…
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Covers with animals or even people hovering in the background over the MC have always made me laugh for some reason, and this is no exception😁 But I do like the one you chose, it’s the least funny!
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Same here, it’s so cheesy! As if some of these UF covers aren’t already cheesy enough, lol!
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Same, cos that one is the only one that looks like her
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It’s been so long, I don’t even remember how she looks 😛
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I’m with you on this one 🙂
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Haha, it was the only one that really stood out to me 🙂
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I have read Magic Bites and I love that cover! (the one you chose)
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This is the only book in the series I’ve read too, and one of these days I’d like to continue 🙂
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I nearly used this very same book – that lion is pretty cool but yes, cheesy covers for sure.
Lynn 😀
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I totally agree with your winner Mogsy!! I think this cover is just gorgeous!
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Probably would have been the first I would have thought of for this topic! I like the one you went with best too.
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