The Friday Face-Off is a new meme created by Books by Proxy, where the idea is to compare the UK and US covers of a book with each week being a certain theme, this week’s theme is a Scarlet Harlot! – Sorry couldn’t resist that one! 🙂 A cover featuring a lady in red.
This week I have chosen: Red Queen by Christina Henry:
For those of you following my blog you will know that it’s the book I’m currently reading and did for the Teaser Tuesday meme this week but……….while it couldbe deemed to be a cop-out the cover just really stood out for me as it features a lady in red and she screamed choose me for the Face-Off and like a loyal sservant I obeyed as who would want to disobey a queen! 🙂
UK Cover:
US Cover:
The Winner: UK.
I just prefer the more contemporary art style on the UK cover than the classic look on the US.
Thoughts?? Agree?? DiDisagree??
The Tattooed Book Geek 
the US cover didn’t really stand a chance there , I mean look at how beautiful that UK cover is , US cover is so MEH!
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Definitely agree. 😊
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I’m from the U.S. but as always I’m gonna have to tip my hat off to the U.K. they always kill it with their covers 🙂 STUNNING cover for Red Queen (U.K.)!
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Thanks for commenting. 😊 Yeah, book covers seem to be one of the things that the UK do right! 😂
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agreed 🙂
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Yeah, this one is a no brainer. The US cover is hideous. Yuck! I would never want to buy that. Now I’m sad that I already bought the first book and will have to look at that thing when it comes time to read the sequel. Scarlet Harlot was really this week’s theme? Lol. Yay for whoever thought that one up. 🤗
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Well, the theme was a lady in red but Scarlet Harlot sounded better to me. 😜
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Of course it did! 😝 So the mind I speak of is your sick head. lol. Brilliant!
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UK for me too though the US one is a little amusing to me because it seems as if the queen is playing peek-a-boo.
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UK cover all the way, brother. The US cover is . . . quite strange to me. On the other hand, the UK cover is so elegant and whimsical looking it makes me want to find out what is going on in there.
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Oh yes – what a great choice, Drew – damn you’re good at this FF malarky:)). And I wholly concur with everyone else – there is no contest… the UK cover just nails it.
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I think it was more luck that I happened to be reading a book with a Red lady on the cover, I’d like to think it was karma ‘giving me’ one after how much hassle I had finding a book with an explosion on a few weeks previous, that was a nightmare!
Sorry to ask you but I’ve looked on BooksbyProxy and couldn’t find it, do you know what next week’s Face-Off theme is? 🙂
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No, according to Lynn this is as far as she’s gone, so perhaps you, me and Lynn could get together and suggest a temporary 3 week mini-prog in case she doesn’t make it back? One suggestion each? – What do you think?
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Ah, if it’s not on there then at least I don’t feel like a complete nitwit for not being able to find it. 😊 If Lynn’s fine with that then I think that’s a great idea. 😊
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It’s so hard to choose, I love both these covers!
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Oh gosh- I love both these covers- but I have to agree with you!
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I love your choice to be honest. I usually hum and ahh between the covers but no context this week.
Lynn 😀
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Only just seen the comment about themes – I definitely thing we should come up with a few themes and submit them to Booksbyproxy for future weeks – we could perhaps just agree a topic for next week? Does anybody have a suggestion – I’m happy to suggest something and equally happy to take suggestions?
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Neither me nor Sjhigbee knew the themes for the previous two weeks, that’s how we ended up with animals on the cover and a favourite book for the week before that as we couldn’t find the themes on booksbyproxy. I think because of that, as we already picked are own theme that it’s only fair you choose the theme for this week. 😊
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Okay – how about
“Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.”
A cover that has a gate or gates?
Lynn 😀
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Yeah, that’s fine with me. Fingers crossed I don’t find it as hard as the explosion theme from a few weeks ago, that was a nightmare! 😂
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