The Friday Face-Off is a meme originally created by Books by Proxy and now hosted over at Lynn’s Books. The idea is to compare the different covers of a book with each week being a certain theme.

This week’s Friday Face-Off theme is a cover from a book that features magic: “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” My book choice for this is Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass.

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And the winner is… COVER H!

As I was picking the covers for this theme, I thought I had found my winner a few times. Then I found Cover H. I love the colours. The styling and artwork is something that really caught my eye. And the representation of Lyra and Iorek Byrnison is fantastic. I have these books to read, and cannot wait to delve in!

What are your thoughts? Do you agree with my winner, or does one of the others work better for you? Let me know in the comments!

Next week’s theme is a cover from a book with ‘Queen’ in the title: “I will do what queens do, I will rule.”