The Book Stacks

Welcome to the Wild Magic edition of Battle of the Book Covers! (I need theme music for these posts. Something macho and all ‘growly’.)

I decided to do the Wild Magic edition because, after deciding I must have one of my favourite childhood quartets, I ordered them. Lo and behold, they had covers much different than the covers I had grown up with. I went on amazon.com and searched and found yet another cover, but not the one I had grown up.

So it goes. There are still two different covers here to have at each other to decide which one is best.

The first cover is, I have to admit, very cool. Even if you don’t know the horse on the cover is Cloud, it’s still cool. The colours work, the fonts work even better, and they worked in “The Immortals: Book 1�? quite nicely. Having read the book, I have a few nitpicks, but I’m trying not to let that influence what I say because we’re voting strictly on cover art here.

If I were to pick this book up, I would think it was mainly about horses or at least a horse. Even upon reading the back blurb, I might wonder why they would feature a horse rather than a more exotic animal or Daine herself. Even so, I doubt I would put the book down over that.

This is my first time seeing the second cover (as in I haven’t seen it before I started this search), and I rather like it. Honestly, I’m actually not very attracted to these types of covers, I like it. It has a lot going on, and I like being able to look at a cover for a while, maybe even seeing something on the second viewing that I didn’t on the first.

Given it’s a fantasy book, I am more inclined toward the second cover. It gives more of a ‘this is a tale’ feel than the first cover does, if that makes sense. It doesn’t matter that’s not at all how I imagine Daine (blame that on the cover that I have yet to find) because the cover as a while makes it feel like a true fantasy book.

This one is a pretty tight call, but I declare the second cover the winner!

What do you think? Agree or disagree?