The Friday Face-Off is a meme created by Books by Proxy. The idea is to compare the different covers of a book with each week being a certain theme.
This weeks theme is: “Those darling byegone times… with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture” – a cover that is positively medieval.
This week instead of a single book with a variety of different covers I have decided to go with a UK v US theme and offer up the whole five books and their respective UK and US covers for one of my favourite fantasy series The Traitor Son Cycle by Miles Cameron.
The UK Covers.
The US Covers.
The winner.
The UK covers win it for me. There’s nothing wrong with the US but the UK have quite a classic look to them and the style, in my opinion, is something different to what you see with a lot of modern fantasy series and creates a stunning set of covers.
Thoughts?? Agree?? Disagree??
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Great minds think alike! Although, like most Americans, I mostly ignored the UK. https://everydayshouldbetuesday.wordpress.com/2018/04/27/friday-face-off-medieval-cover/
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Respect for the highlighting the series but sigh for ignoring the poor little UK.😂🇬🇧
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I agree that the UK covers looks way better. Im not just saying that as I’m English 😂
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The UK covers for lots of books seem to be better, some decent US but on the whole the UK has it bang on for fantasy covers.👍
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You would think that they would just have the same cover for every country.
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Ooooo, I love the UK Covers! As someone who strongly judges books by their cover, the UK covers make me feel dying to read this series (I’m running to add it to my tbr now, haha!), and the US covers make me feel like, no thanks.
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It’s a great series, well worth adding and yeah, the US definitely have that no thanks vibe and while if I hadn’t read it then UK would make me stop and look and think what’s that whereas the US is rather generic and I’d probably have passed it by.
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There really is no comparison on this one for me either! The UK covers are awesome, and make me want to try getting back into this series (I’ve read the first book). The US covers definitely lack that same punch. They feel very direct-to-video fantasy cover to me, if that makes sense?
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Yeah, that makes perfect sense and is actually a really good way to describe them.👍
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Definitely prefer the UK covers, the US ones look very dated, almost medieval! 😀
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Ooohhh that’s bad but not the worst pun I’ve read or heard today.😂
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I like the UK covers! They are really cool looking and, like you said, different than most fantasy covers. The US versions have a weird font, but other than that they are just like other fantasy cover. (Especially the first one)
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Yeah, the US are rather generic though I tried to be a bit more polite than that in the post.😂 Really don’t see many like the UK covers about these days and it definitely makes them stand out.to the norm.
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I think the UK covers are a total win here. But I always seem to favor UK over US covers. So no shocker there 😛
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Lol.😀 The US does have some sweet covers but I think that if I was from the US then I’d still mostly prefer the UK.😂🇬🇧
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I tend to favor a ton of international covers. We use to many actual models in ours. I like artwork 🙂
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I love the UK covers for this series so definitely agree. Hehe to the Pulp Fiction clip.
Lynn 😀
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UK gets my vote! I prefer the artwork and design. Honestly some of those poses on the US covers are just cringy.
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The UK covers are much nicer to look at… the US covers kinda stick out like a sore thumb… and no one wants that in a cover 👎🏼😂😂😂
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Those UK covers are gorgeous and pretty simple and I adore them. But those US covers – way too much is going on and they’re trying to be all flashy and hip and I hate it.
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I also prefer the UK set of covers – though the US covers are reasonable, I think. A great choice of book for this week’s theme, Drew:))
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Absolutely no contest here UK covers are far better
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I don’t know this series but I’m assuming it’s fantasy.
The UK covers do have that vibe with the dragon and whatnot.
The US ones are nice, but more fitting for historical fiction maybe.
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Yep, it’s fantasy.👍
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I think the UK look way better. The American ones look almost childish compared.
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UK for sure. A much cleaner, classic style. Nicer art too. 👌🏼
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First a tag, now a meme! Color me astonished, Procrastination King 😂
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I’m full of surprises!👍👌😂
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Definitely, the US covers…not a surprise I almost always prefer the US covers on books.
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The US? Shudders, oil from those abs covers must have gotten in your eyes.😱😂😱😂
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Clear win for the UK covers in this series.
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I agree the UK covers are better.
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I always loved the UK edition of this series (and I have this one on my wish list for ages! ). The US is not bad, and they’ve traslated the first book in Italian too (yay) keeping the US cover… I was wishing for the UK one, but it could have been worse!
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