Friday, May 7, 2021

The Friday Face-Off: A Series That You Love

   

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Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a weekly meme at Books by Proxy. Join us every Friday as we pit cover against cover, and publisher against publisher, to find the best artwork in our literary universe.  You can find a list of upcoming topics at Lynn's Books.

This week's topic is:
A Series That You Love
 
I opted to skip this week's topic (cover changes) and instead go with the topic from last week (a series that you love) because I actually made a cover change post last year that pretty much covers most of the major cover changes from series I've read, and my opinions about them haven't changed much since then. So let's talk about a favorite series and look at some covers!

There are a lot of series that I love, so I decided to pick one of my all-time favorite series that I don't think gets enough love: The Licanius Trilogy by James Islington!

The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1)An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy, #2)The Light of All That Falls (The Licanius Trilogy, #3)
Aren't they all beautiful together!? These three are all from the Orbit publications of this series, and I've shared some international covers (of the ones available!) for all three books below.


More covers of book one, The Shadow of What Was Lost:
The Shadow Of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1)Stín věcí ztracených (The Licanius Trilogy, #1)Das Erbe der Seher (The Licanius Trilogy, #1)
2014 Kindle | 2018 Czech | 2017 German

Das Erbe der Seher (Die Licanius-Saga, #1)Тень ушедшего (Трилогия Ликаниуса, #1)
2017 German #2 | 2019 Russian

More covers of book two, An Echo of Things to Come:
Das Echo der Zukunft (Die Licanius-Saga #2)Ozvěna věcí budoucích (The Licanius Trilogy, #2)L'eco del tempo futuro (Licanius Trilogy #2)
2018 German | 2020 Czech | 2021 Italian


More covers of The Light of All that Falls:
Die Schatten der Zeit (The Licanius Trilogy, #3)
2021 German

My choice(s):
The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1)An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy, #2)The Light of All That Falls (The Licanius Trilogy, #3)
I love the covers for the original trilogy. They have a nice mix of simplistic elements with some detail, and I like that each one has a strong pop of color. They're all so similar that they feel super thematic, but they aren't too similar to be boring, if that makes sense?


What cover(s) do you like the most?

2 comments:

  1. I love the pop of color on those, too!

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  2. I love the original covers as well. I always hear bloggers raving about this series, I'd love to read it one day😁

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