Americans have always been a little jealous of the British cover of The Lies of Locke Lamora, so, many of themyou will be happy to hear that the overwhelming success of the Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastards series and his recent release of Republic of Thieves has promoted Del Rey and Spectra to commission a new cover for book number one.
I really like the artists representation of Locke’s city and his depiction of Lynch’s ‘up-not-out’ style of accommodation. Although it captures the epic nature of the book quite well I’m still not quite sure it has the same subtle suggestion of darkness and yet mischievous that the UK cover was able to capture… what do you guys think?
Here are the current UK & US covers:
A few more…
Whilst we’re at it, the cover art of The Lies of Locke Lamora makes an interesting case study into the variety of how fantasy novels are marketed through their cover art across different countries and also, perhaps, varying artists different vibes from the book too. So, here’s a selection from around the world. The first, my favourite, is from Singapore and is very much to my taste:
Got an opinion on why the cover art across countries varies so wildly? Let us know below…
Geoff Matthews
Julia Kitvaria Sarene
I LOVE the anime-inspired Singaporian cover.
The German cover is by far the ugliest. Luckily the new editions have one of the UK/US covers if I remember right…
I have the original silver and blue UK cover which is really striking. It’s beloved even more since I got Scott Lynch to sign it.
This cover is awesome, but tragically this cover is on the mass market paperback only. I don’t care for mass market much. I love the green cover along the water there with the silhouette.
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anyone know who does the cover art for some of these? I want to use some as my background
and finding the artists would be awesome