Friday Face-Off: Pretty Dresses
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:
“The puffy dress”
~ MERINGUE
Mogsy’s Pick:
Glamourist Histories by Mary Robinette Kowal
For today’s topic, I’ve decided to feature the covers of the five books in Mary Robinette Kowal’s Glamourist Histories, her fantasy of manners series inspired by Austenesque Regency romance. These gorgeous editions are published by Tor:
Winner:
I had a hard time choosing this week. It was almost a three-way tie between Shades of Milk and Honey, Glamour in Glass and Of Noble Family, but in the end I had to go with the first book–the fiery colors made it stand out, and the striking imagery leaves no doubt there is a touch of magic going on, not to mention it appeals to the music lover in me.
But what do you think? Which one is your favorite?
The BiblioSanctum 
These covers are very pretty. I was going to say Glamour in glass but after a second look I’m loving Without a Summer. I like the birds and the colours.
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They’re all really pretty. I like the one with the blue birds too, but I think I prefer the covers where the female characters are solo, haha! 😀
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Empire Waist dresses have never worked for me. I almost didn’t watch the Pride and Prejudice mini-series with Firth and Ehle because it shows Ehle on the cover with an empire waist dress. I’m just glad that style isn’t current nor likely to ever come back 😀
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I had to look up Empire Waist dresses because I never knew that was what it was called! I don’t mind them, but I think you have to have a particular body shape to really pull it off – I know I can’t, lol!
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I love your choice and was torn between the first two covers -but I think your winner is the best on balance because it gives you the impression that something more is happening, something magical, whereas the other cover looks like it could be a period story with no fantastical elements (although there are the little bubbles now I look more closely) Well dang it – I’m still going for the first.
Lynn 😀
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My second choice would have been the bubbles! I think the fiery color of my winner was what sold me though!
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I don’t know . . . something about Without a Summer stands out for me.
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It’s very elegant! I love the blueness…even the birds are bluebirds!
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Great choice, I love Glamour in Glass the best, for some reason those magical bubbles combined with her dress make this my favorite😁
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That would have been my second choice! I went back and forth between books 1 and 2!
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I think I like the last one best.
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I agree, that one’s gorgeous. It’s very “wedding dress” to me. Who knows, it very well might be! I haven’t read that one yet, unfortunately!
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This week I’m truly enjoying a revisitation of my favorite series through this meme!
And it’s true that your choice gives the best representation of the glamour theme with that magical mixture of fire and music… 🙂
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I am aware of your love for this series 🙂 I’ve only read the second one, but I have plans to go back and read book 1 and the rest of the series one of these days.
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I agree with your choice.
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Thanks! I think it stands out the most.
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Honestly the last one is my favorite this week Mogsy!
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That one is really pretty too! But the white dress just reminds me too much of a wedding dress (who knows, it might actually be one!)
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For once they are all pretty! But I will go with the blue birds one 😀
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Haha, yep…for once 😀
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Oooo… WHAT a fabulous pick to this week’s theme – and such very pretty covers… I’m completely torn, but I think I agree with your choice as those warm colours sing out. And this series looks fabulous – but I MUST get on top of my TBR pile before diving into yet more new and shiny!!
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Right? 😀 Out of all of them, Shades of Milk and Honey really jumped out at me, because it alone had the fiery colors. I love the “softness” of the paler, cooler tones on the other covers, but in terms of being eye-catching, I think book 1 wins!
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Another series that I need to get into. Beautiful covers!
x The Captain
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I still need to finish this series myself! I’ve only read Glamour in Glass 😛
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Oh yes, those books have FABULOUS dresses on them. 😀
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Ooh I haven’t heard of this series before, I’ll have to look into it. And I agree with your choice, the colours of it really make it stand out like you’ve said. It’s beautiful!
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