Friday Face-Off: Romantic
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:
“Thus with a kiss I die”
~ a ROMANTIC cover
Mogsy’s Pick:
The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout
The topic for today’s Friday Face-Off is a romantic cover for Valentine’s Day, and even though I wasn’t crazy for this book, it features a romance and there are a couple covers well-suited to the theme. Let’s take a look at them now:
From left to right:
Tor Teen (2018) – German Edition (2019) – Italian Edition (2018)
Spanish Edition (2018) – Polish Edition (2018) – French Edition (2019)
Winner:
Despite the effusion of pinks and purples which are perfect for Valentine’s Day, my goodness some of these covers are just awful. The most fitting one for today though also happens to be my top pick.
But what do you think? Which one is your favorite?
The BiblioSanctum 
I like the Tor Teen one the best for some reason. Maybe because I have no idea what the book is about so I don’t know if it really fits the plot well.
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I like that one too, but it doesn’t say romance at all – and I think that was why I was initially fooled into thinking this would be a book I would like 😛
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Great pick – that’s the cover that immediately jumped out at me too.
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It’s the colors, I think!
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I love your choice too! And I also really love the French edition😁
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I like the French edition’s colors!
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This week my vote goes to the French edition: it has some kind of SF vibe that I find very attractive 🙂
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That one seems quite popular this week!
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I think I like the Tor Teen one best. Great choice this week!
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That one’s very pretty! It doesn’t scream “romance” though, which is why I was first fooled, haha!
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That’s true.
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I like your choice best this week – it’s the one I was immediately drawn to and in fact zoomed in to get a better look.
Lynn 😀
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Same, I had to zoom in because I was intrigued by the details.
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I vote for the French edition, despite the pinkish-purplish color of the star – it looks very SF thanks to it 😉
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Yes, I think the “Sci-fi-ness” of it is its greatest strength!
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I guess yours, truthfully none would make me look twice
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Yeah, there were only a few that jumped out at me, and I chose among them.
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I like the colors on all of these.
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So many pinks and purples!
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