Friday Face-Off: Lake
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:
“The mysterious lake”
~ a cover featuring a LAKE
Mogsy’s Pick:
Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine
I was deeply saddened by the news of Rachel Caine’s passing last month. She’s written some of my favorite books including Stillhouse Lake, the first book of what has become one of my favorite thriller series. A sense of melancholy came over me as I was putting together this post, but seeing all these different covers also lifted my spirits to know her books have touched so many people’s lives around the world.
From left to right:
Thomas & Mercer (2017) – Polish Edition (2018) – Romanian Edition (2018)
Italian Edition (2019) – Indonesian Edition (2019) – Lithuanian Edition (2020)
French Edition (2019) – Chinese Edition (2019) – Persian Edition
Winner:
There are so many nice ones this week, I had tough time choosing. In the end though, I had to go with the French edition with its ominous mood, plus I thought it used the reflections in the water to great effect.
But what do you think? Which one is your favorite?
The BiblioSanctum 
I prefer the Chinese edition.
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Good choice! Ominous atmosphere to that one.
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I had missed the news of Rachel Caine’s passing! 😦
It’s so sad to have to acknowledge the loss of an author one has known through their works…
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Yes, it was a sad day. The world lost a great author 😦
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There are a lot of great covers! I almost picked this too but I haven’t read it so I chose another book. I’m leaning toward the Polish cover😁
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Mmm, yes, the window cover…quite creepy!
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Stillhouse Lake is my favourite cover there as it’s the least fussy. I like simple, dramatic covers. Interesting post, thanks. The green, foreign version is nice too.
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The color scheme is a great plus, I agree!
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I can’t believe I forgot about this book! Great choice this week!
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Thanks! It was actually the only one I really had in mind, lol!
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🙂
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Great pick for this topic! And now I’m sad about Rachel Caine all over again.
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I know, I felt that way making this post 😦
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It’s always a sad day when an author we know and love dies. But at least we still have their books to read and reread. As for the covers, my favorite is the Chinese edition, I just love that image. And my second favorite is the Thomas & Mercer cover.
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Yes, that’s true. The world lost a great author that day. And I might be wrong, but I think the latest book in this series might be her last published novel
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Oh no! I had read that Rachel Caine was very ill but I didn’t know she’d passed away. That is so sad. She will remembered by so many readers though.
I like your choice – I do often seem to like the French covers.
Lynn 😀
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Yes, even though I knew she had been very ill, when I heard she had passed away I still didn’t want to believe it 😦
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Tough one, I like several this time but yours is good
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True, they’re all quite good!
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Well I agree with you! The French cover is beautiful.
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It actually had a couple versions, but yes I thought that one was well balanced and very nice!
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