I’m back with 5 new book covers for you to pick and choose your favorite one. This is just for fun so there are no wrong answers! OK, I’ll go first:
Editing Emma by Chloe Seager
I pick cover 1. There’s just a little more flow on that cover.
The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne
I choose cover number 2. Difficult to explain why I’m more attracted to that one, maybe because there are children on the cover and it looks like a dangerous situation?
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Definitely cover 1.
In Search Of Us by Ava Dellaira
Cover 2. I read that novel as well and I’m really fond of all the colors on the cover. I feel like I’m looking at a true summer beach read.
Portraits of the Dead by John Nicholl
Cover 1. Maybe it’s also because I read this version too but the second one really is too creepy for me. I really like how they redid all the other covers in this detective series, except this one.
So that’s it. Tell me your thoughts! If you can’t get enough, check out Battle Of The Books #1 – #2 – #3 – #4 – #5 – #6
The Belgian Reviewer 
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Thanks for the reblog 🙂
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Bloody hell, that clown staring through the hole is truly traumatizing 😀
Apart from the Nightingale, all of them has at least a very similar style, so they look like part of a set or something. The Nightingale on the other hand looks like two completely different stories. Interesting.
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Haha I absolutely love your analysis and you’re right that clown is just too scary :-). Thanks Norrie!
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Editing Emma- 2
The Guilty One- 2
The Nightingale- 1
In Search Of Us- 2
Portraits of the Dead- 2
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You’re going with the creepy clown cover, wow, nothing scares you 🙂 Thanks for the vote lovely!
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I believe cover should be more creepy than the book itself. 😉 Look at that blurb, it’s perfect!
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Yes I read it and it’s a great novel 😉
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I was going to read that one with the creepy clown cover but I just couldn’t! Clowns don’t bother me as a rule but that one is just horrible!! I feel like it’s staring at me…
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Haha I totally get that. It’s a great read really (I don’t know why the clown is so prominent). I read the novel with the first cover :-).
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I think I’d select the same covers as you apart from the last one. I like being frightened (by fictional characters only, of course). Great Post Inge!
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So you also do think it’s a rather frightening cover :-). Thank you Diana!
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Beautiful cover’s 👌
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Thank you.
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Cover 1 for all of them. 😀
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Thank you Ova!
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Beautiful ❤
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Second Emma cover looks so simple and perfect! I also love the second cover for The Guilty One, because it matches the title better. As for Kristin Hannah, I definitely prefer the first one. I love the simple, lack of detail in the first cover of In Search of Us. I don’t really like either cover for Portraits of the Dead, but I guess I’d choose the first one!
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Ah thank you for making your choice! Your reasons are really clear too and I normally like simple covers most of all as well.. I guess these were exceptions 🙂
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I agree with all of your choices but the second last one. I like the first cover because purple is my favourite colour ☺
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Aaah of course, it’s amazing what a color can’t do :-). Thank you lovely!
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Such great covers! I love both covers of The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah!
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Thank you Nikola. You can never be disappointed then if you love both covers :-).
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All the same choices except for In Search of Us Inge 😉
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Thank you Sophie, I normally would go for the simplest cover too but I read this version of In Search of Us and the cover is relatable to the story, the hummingbirds, the vibe so that’s why I choose the vivid, colorful cover this time 🙂
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I agreed with you today, LOL.
I think on the Guilty One, the second cover is so much more evocative of guilt. It feels like the left figure is judging the right figure, who might be about to go off the roof. I didn’t see them as children when I looked at it.
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Oh waw that’s brilliant! Maybe you’re right and they’re not children.. I wonder where I got that from.. maybe something in the blurb.. Thank you for your vote!
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Going to go ahead and agree with you this week. Especially on Portraits of the Dead. I do not do clowns 😂 no way, no how.
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Wonderful :-). Well there’s a clown on the first cover too of Portraits of the Dead, but luckily it’s not the main focus 🙂
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He is in the background though and not all up in my face haha. Although no less creepy
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Are these different editions from the same country just at different dates or from different countries – just trying to work out why they are so different
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They are covers from different publishers. I guess it’ll have to do something with country rights so I think they’ll be for different markets (European, US etc) but I can’t see on Goodreads (my source) for which country they are destined. It happens a lot though that there are different covers (not only for format but they also differ in the same format), and I like seeing them. A cover can do a lot!
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Its the ones for different markets that always interest me – as if they are saying we are so different that we related to artwork in vastly different ways
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Hmm I don’t know the discussion is really that we like different artwork, I think they simple can’t use the same artwork for a book with different rights and they have to negotiate everything over again with a different publisher. If you look at the answers and the agreement I get from other bloggers I’m not sure we experience them differently. I think it really depends on the individual. They don’t alway have a choice but to have another cover, some covers really don’t need changing. And what about titles: There’s the UK ‘The Man Who Didn’t Call’ and the US ‘Ghosted’. Or another: ‘Baby Teeth’ and ‘Bad Apple’, same book, and for what reason is that?
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That clown is really horrible!!
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Haha yep, couldn’t agree more! Thanks Nicki!
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Great picks! I agree with the first three, and prefer the other in the last two… Number four is me loving anything blue and I’m always a sucker for simple covers with fonts and simple illustrations. The last one was tricky, but I actually like that the clown makes the cover scary haha.
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Thank you Yvo. That last one has the most divided opinions I believe, interesting to see who’s scared of it and who isn’t. Doesn’t surprise me that you like it :-)!
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Haha I do like my creepy covers… Although I’m not sure if I would leave it lying on my bedside table at night. 😉
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Oh gosh I think I agreed with all of your choices… that cover 2 for Portraits is waaaaaaay to freaky!! Lol
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Hihi thank you Nina!!
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That clown cover is awful!! Agree with The Nightingale, unfortunately, I have number 2 xD
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Ah but you already know it’s a great story and the cover doesn’t need to convince you anymore to buy it ;-).
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I agree with you but the last one. Creepy clown 🤡 it is for me he he. It reminds me King’s It, which I am rather fond of, 😂
Great book choices Inge. 😊
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You’re absolutely right, it has a King vibe! I don’t read King though, also too scary, so probably why I didn’t appeal to me so much. Thank you Vera!
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1, 1, 2, 1, 1. The books look so different with the cover changes and yes I’m not keen on the clown one.
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Oh you’re choosing the vintage (for lack of a better word) cover of The Nightingale, interesting choice :-). Hihi no scary clown for you either, good to know I’m not alone!
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I like all the #1’s except the Search and that last one is way to creeepy for sure!
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Thank you Holly for your thoughts on these. Happy to see you agree with me on that last one!
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For me, for an art point of view, I would go with: 1 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 1
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Thank you for choosing the covers that appeal most to you. Interesting to see that even from an art point of view you don’t choose the creepy cover nr 2 for the last one 🙂
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I think everyone who dislikes clowns will choose cover one over two! ☺️
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Excellent post! I find both covers of The Portraits of the Dead creepy but the second one is absolutely terrifying. I’m OK with most of them either way but I do like the original The Nightingale. Thanks for posting! 🤗
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I’m with you on that last one and on The Nightingale.. I mean, it’s even in the name.. night.. it should be dark in my opinion 🙂
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The Nightingale is on my TBR – definitely cover 1!
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Thank you Lindsay. It’s on my TBR too 🙂 I hope we’ll both enjoy it, I have a good feeling about it that we will 🙂
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I’m always fascinated by the different covers and since my bookshelves are full of murders I’m really quite glad that publishers have moved away from the black covers on the whole – that said the second choice for Portraits of the Dead is horrific!
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Hihi thanks Cleo and I’m happy there are so many diverse covers too! Since I saw Final Girls, a thriller with PINK on the cover, my fav colour but one I used to associate with romance and cuteness, I realised that anything can go!
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