Friday Face-Off: Detailed
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 DETAILED cover
Mogsy’s Pick:
The Legends of the First Empire Series by Michael J. Sullivan
This week’s topic was officially “A very busy cover full to bursting with detail,” but the moment I read the description only one book came into my head: Michael J. Sullivan’s Age of Myth. While I wouldn’t actually say it’s all that busy, it certainly does contain a lot of detail. To me, this is the kind of fantasy cover that screams “EPIC!” The rest of the books also happen to feature covers are just as gorgeous, all created by artist Marc Simonetti, so this week I decided I would do a straight-up showcase of the covers in The Legends of the First Empire series rather than a traditional face-off. Enjoy!
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I love Simonetti’s covers because of the scale. He knows how to portrait grandiose setting, which is a staple in epic fantasy. 🙂
Good choice, Mogsy!
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Agreed! I love his work 😀
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I love this series, and the covers are Stunning 😁
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I still need to catch up, but agreed re: the covers 😀
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These are all amazing covers, and my favorite is the first one for Age of Myth, with that imposing tree drawing my attention 🙂
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Yep, that tree adds so much majesty!
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen all these covers together! My favorites are definitely Age of Myth and Age of Legend😁
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Two of my favorite too 😀
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Oh my! A detailed cover??? Well that’s a great choice!
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Yep, can’t get more detailed than Simonetti 😀
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This is a great selection and I completely agree they fit the description of epic. I’d love to try this series one day.
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What I’ve read so far is great – of course, I still need to finish 😀
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Oh, these covers are great for this topic. I really do enjoy the consistency among them too.
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Agreed, I love the art style and the majesty!
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I really like all these covers!
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They’re really great 😀
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🙂
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What a wonderful series of covers, Mogsy! And no… I cannot possibly choose – although I’d probably go with the dragon if I absolutely had to, because… dragons!!!
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Dragons are definitely a plus! I like a lot of these, but that one’s a standout, along with the one with the tree 😀
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Wow, these look fantastic together. Such scope and so much detail. I feel like I could sit here admiring them for ages. Brilliant choice.
Lynn 😀
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Thanks, glad you like them!
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I love all these covers. I’m always tempted to get these books.
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Hmm, I do like the big tree
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