Friday Face-Off: Pattern
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 cover with a PATTERN
Mogsy’s Pick:
LIFEL1K3 by Jay Kristoff
While LIFEL1K3 may have fallen short for me (probably the only thing Jay Kristoff’s done that has), I’ve always thought the premise was really cool. I guess that’s also why I’m surprised there weren’t more interesting covers for this book, but I thought a couple of them worked well for this theme.
From left to right:
Knopf Books for Young Readers (2018) – HarperCollins (2018)
Allen and Unwin (2018) – Harper Voyager (2018)
Winner:
Seeing as I’m not a big fan of “just text” covers, it was tougher to judge this week. I would have gone with the HarperCollins 2018 edition, but it kind of creeps me out with the way it’s made to look like a bloody eye. So, I guess I was left with just one option – can’t say I love it, but it’s solid.
But what do you think? Which one is your favorite?
The BiblioSanctum 
The cover with the eye caught me instantly. So it is that one.
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Haha, I did figure that one would be popular this week 😀
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Oh no – I don’t like the eye cover, well, that is, it gives me the creeps a little, so much like you I would go with the fourth cover by Harper ‘voyager.
Lynn 😀
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Thank you, good to know I’m not the only one that’s creeped out by the eye cover, lol!
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I like the Harper Collins 2018 cover: that eye is nothing short of mesmerizing… 😉
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Everyone seems to like the eye cover 🙂
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No my favorite is the UK paperback cover LOL
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Is that the “eye” cover?
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Definately the HarperCollins cover, love the creepy eye. 🙂
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That one’s very popular this week!
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I like the first two! Although the bee hive design freaks me out, since I have that weird thing where patterns with lots of holes literally gives me chills, lol.
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I kinda like the beehive pattern! Though I find it to be a bit plain for the story’s theme
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Oh, nice pick. I do like the one you went with in the end out of all of these, it pleases the eye the most for me. 🙂
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Same here!
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I chose this book, too! Nice pick!
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Great minds!
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🙂
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I like the Harper Collins 2018 one but then I’m always drawn to red on the cover!
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It does stand out 🙂
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I kind of like the eye, but I would say none of them is truly amazing
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