Friday Face-Off: A Trick of the Eye
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:
A TRICK OF THE EYE
A cover that is more than meets the eye
Mogsy’s Pick:
Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire by Rod Duncan
I’ve only read the first book of this series, but it immediately came to my mind when I saw the topic for this week. I’ve always thought the covers were really clever; they’ll look like one thing from far away, but step in to look a little closer, and you’ll see something else…
Winner:
This week I don’t think there’s a clear winner, I think all these covers are cool and I like them all!
But what do you think? Which one is your favorite?
The BiblioSanctum 
I like those covers. They are clever and a bit different!
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Bullet Catcher’s Daughter was one of my first Angry Robot books too, and I was so impressed with the cover!
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Amazing covers! The first one remains my favorite, though… 🙂
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I do love how they incorporated the little coin purse with the bullets 🙂
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They are all clever – but the first one is a clear favourite – I love the bulleted fingers:))
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Yes, seems like the first one is quite popular this week!
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And I can see why:)
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oh they’re well done
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Yes, kudos to the designer!
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Great choice this week, I still love the cover of The Bullet Catcher’s Daughter the best😁
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I like all three, too. Great choices!
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Thanks! This series came to mind right away!
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You’re welcome!
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Nice, these are fascinating covers, very creative. For the theme I like Unseemly Science.
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I like all the covers, but I think that one might be the most clever, because it makes use of depth and perspective!
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Ahem, none 😉
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Aw, that’s too bad!
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Those are cool covers. I like each one in its own way but the third one especially, with the gears… pretty awesome!
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I love the covers for these! I picked them up in a humble bundle a while ago and I keep meaning to get to them LOL.
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This is a great choice – I think overall the first cover wins out – simply because of the effect with the little purse. But then, I also like the other two – it is difficult to choose.
Lynn 😀
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