Friday Face-Off: Skeleton
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:
“Them bones, them bones, them dry bones…”
~ a cover featuring a SKELETON
Mogsy’s Pick:
The Donovan Series by W. Michael Gear
This week, I’ve once again decided to compare all the covers of the books in a single series, and I’ve chosen the Donovan sequence by W. Michael Gear not only because it is fantastic, but also because it’s just so perfect for today’s theme. The following are covers of the four volumes (Unreconciled is coming soon in May) currently in the series, published by DAW Books:
Winner:
Bones, bones, bones everywhere! Oh, which to choose? None of these are what you’d call cheery images, which makes it tough to pick a favorite. But if I had to base my decision on atmosphere and how much it intrigues me, I think I would have to go with the second book. Nothing screams “abandoned” like a corpse in a busted up suit of armor overgrown with alien vegetation. I also like the little touches. If you look closely, you’ll see the words “ALL THINGS END” near the bottom of the image. Spooky.
But what do you think? Which one is your favorite?
The BiblioSanctum 
I still need to start this series! In that context, these bones do look appealing 😉
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It’s a great series! Actually even more interesting than the dreary covers suggest 🙂
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I’ll put it on my TBR then! 😀
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I like the cover for book 4. Skeleton Thrones really work for me 😀
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Haha bone thrones are cool and all, I just don’t feeling like I’m being spooned by a skeleton 😛
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Wow, this is perfect for this theme isn’t it. I love the covers and the first and second are my favourites – although that fourth one is pretty good isn’t it. I actually can’t choose between the first two – I keep changing my mind so it will have to be a joint favourite for me this week.
Lynn 😀
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Yeah, I thought of the fourth book, but it turns out all the books have bones/skeletons too!
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I might give Outpost a slight edge, but they’re all kick-ass covers!
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I agree!
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Great choice! Outpost was actually the first book I thought about for this prompt. I love that you did the series😁
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It worked out perfectly, because all the books contain an element of bones/skellies!
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The bone pyramid in the first cover still wins the Creepiness Prize every time! 😀
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It is definitely creepy! The first time I saw it, I knew I wanted to read the book 🙂
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I’m not sure I can pick a favorite out of these. I actually think each one is cool for a different reason.
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Each cover definitely has its own strengths.
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I think so, too.
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Outpost is my fav. I love the balance and that spear-point of bones. But all of them are great.
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And gotta love that bone pyramid!
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I do agree with you! But …how do you find books that fit the topic? Google “books with skeletons”???
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Mostly I just browse my Goodreads “read” list 🙂
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Your winner looks like master Chief from Halo got his ass whooped🙂. Great covers all of them
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Haha! Glad I’m not the only one who thought “Halo” when I saw that armor 🙂
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This is a series I’ve promised myself I’m going to have a go at later on this year. Brilliant choice for this week’s theme – my favourite is Outpost.
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It’s a really good series! I hope you get to try it!
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Abandonded is also my favorite of the group. This is a series I’d really like to try one of these days.
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The covers are all very strong, but yes, Abandoned really stood out for me 🙂
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I like Abandoned too. that one is just so darn spooky!
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Spooky is the right word for it!
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Tower of bones! Even though it is scary as f
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Happily the books aren’t as scary as the covers 🙂
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Nice pick, have never heard of this series but the covers sure are intriguing. 🙂
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It is a really good series! Excellent space exploration/colonization sci-fi 🙂
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