The Friday Face-Off is a bookish meme hosted by Books by Proxy that compares book covers to decide which is best.
This week’s theme:
Water, Water Everywhere
A cover that features water
Welcome to another Friday Face-off! This time we’ll pit the covers of Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon against each other. Why Lagoon? Because it’s a novel I’ve often heard mentioned by SFF booktubers and I’d love to try another of Okorafor’s work since her young-adult fantasy novel Akata Witch was such fun to read. Lagoon is an adult science fiction novel. It’s about an alien invasion in Nigeria. Well, then, let’s get to the
Face-off!
Both covers are attractive in their own way. The huge water bubble at the top of the US cover draws your eye to it but doesn’t keep it there. However, the illustration on the UK cover is sure to attract and hold the viewer’s eye. The white space in the letters calls out to me and once I look at the cover, it’s hard to look away. The illustrations are captivating and make me want to look closer in case I might have missed something when standing so far away. It makes me want to know what happens in the story.
The US cover is a photograph by Franklin Kappa through Getty Images. The novel was published by Simon & Schuster imprint Saga Press. The UK cover was published by Hodder & Stoughton and illustrated by Joey Hi-Fi, a South African illustrator. I love Joey’s work! Every time I see the cover of Apocalypse Now Now (the red, white, and black one), I want to get it. Obviously, the winner is:
I really like this cover. I love the color, illustrations, everything. This is the copy I hope to get when I’m ready to read the book. For more on the novel and the cover design, visit Okorafor’s blog.
I loved Lagoon, such a wonderful, weird book! And I also prefer the UK cover, it is way less generic and does the excellence of the book justice 🙂
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I’m glad to hear it relates to the story. Looking forward to reading it.
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What a wonderful book choice! 😛
And agreed! Joey’s cover is just gorgeous! There’s really no comparison… but even if there was there’s no denying he really is an excellent artist!
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Yes, he def is!
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Gorgeous covers! I have read so much about ‘Lagoon’. I should read it soon. One of my favourite covers that features water is Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’. And, the book is truly magical. 🙂
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A couple other bloggers did that one too.
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This is so cool! Lynn and I both picked The Ocean at the end of the Lane, and you and Proxy both picked Lagoon XD I’m with on the UK cover, I starting to notice that I don’t really like many Getty Image covers.
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Haha! That is interesting. I guess this one was a bit difficult.
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Yeah, I prefer the Uk cover for this one. I couldn’t come up with too many ideas for this one. I used Neil Gaiman’s Ocean at the End of the Lane I also thought about The Guns of Ivrea but it had no alternative cover!
My link for this week’s:
http://lynns-books.com/2016/04/01/water-water-everywhere-nor-any-drop-to-drink/
Lynn 😀
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That Guns of Ivrea cover is pretty cool tho.
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Definitely agree with you- I like them both, but the UK one just edges it out!
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Yup, stands out more.
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yeah it does 🙂
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