Friday Face-Off: Silhouette
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:
“An island, a person, anything you like”
~ any cover featuring a SILHOUETTE
Mogsy’s Pick:
The Girl In Red by Christina Henry
A head-to-head today, and I already have a feeling picking a winner will be tough because all of Christina Henry’s dark fairy tale retellings have the BEST covers. For The Girl in Red, both the US and UK editions feature silhouettes, which is why I chose it to feature this week:
Berkley (2019) vs. Titan Books (2019)
Winner:
It’s close, and I’m sure I’ll change my mind again depending on the time of the day, but I’m going to go with the Titan edition for now. The “double silhouette” concept is clever, and I think the image of the howling wolf is much more dramatic and powerful.
But what do you think? Which one is your favorite?
The BiblioSanctum 
I agree with you Mogsy. Both covers are great but yes, I do prefer your choice too!
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Yep, both are strong, so both are winners!
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I really like both of these, but would also go for Titan (prob because those are the covers I own of her books)
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Haha, I hear ya…a lot of times I go for the more familiar cover as well.
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These are both great covers, and while your choice fits this week’s requirements perfectly, I keep being mesmerized by that red-eyed stare from the wolf in the first cover… 😉
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The red stare is my favorite part of that cover 😀
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I’m thoroughly enjoying this theme – everyone has gone for such different books, which is always a win:)). Yes – I think both examples are great designs and work well, but that fabulous red and black wolf with the silhouette in the middle is just so clever! Great choice, Mogsy:)
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Yes, I love seeing the different books people have chosen!
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I honestly cannot choose between these two. On one hand I LOVE the US cover but damn that Titan cover is just as good!
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That was my thinking too, I couldn’t really choose! Both are winners in my book 😛
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I agree, I lean towards the Titan edition for the same reasons you did. Love the double silhouette and the cut-out effect. I’ve not read any of Christina Henry’s work yet.
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Yep, I think the double silhouette was what sold it, plus the red to black gradient in the background. That said, I didn’t love this book. If you want to try her stuff, I recommend her Alice books 🙂
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I agree, I’d go with your pick too. I have to say that this wasn’t a Henry book that I adored that much myself though. Still want to give more of her books a shot in the future! 😀
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I didn’t like it too much either, to be honest. My favorites by her are the Alice books 🙂
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I really like both of the covers.
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Same here, I think they’re both winners.
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I like both but agree with your pick. I think the amount of red in the second one makes it stand out a bit more.
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Definitely. I think maybe that’s why it has the edge. It draws the eye a bit more 🙂
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I like the first one , cool
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They’re both awesome 😀
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I really love both of these covers for different reasons. The one you went with has that extra element though.
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Same, I think both have their unique strengths. Like I said, I think depending on my mood my favorite might change from moment to moment 😀
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Great covers – and I definitely agree with your choice. It was the one I automatically focused on.
Lynn 😀
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The red definitely draws the eye!
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