From Redick’s blog:
US
UK, art by Edward Miller
Both are nice. I prefer the UK one, though, mostly for its (intentional?) homage to the old John Howe covers for Robin Hobb’s Liveship Trilogy, which are some of my favourite covers ever.
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It has been a while but I think I like the looks of the US cover more than the UK version.
I would like the UK version more if the sea-serpent’s mane wasn’t quite so Hair Bear/Phil Spector-ish. Love everything else about it, though. The US version seems to completely neglect the naval/maritime aspects of the series… unless what I’ve mistaken as shield is supposed to be a compass??
I definitely like the US cover more – I don’t know why, but the UK cover seems a bit amateurish to me. Not that the art is bad, but it reminds me of the older style of art on old D&D and 70’s/80’s fantasy novels, and I like the more modern look better.
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I’m 85% sure that is a compass, and not a shield. I myself am a much bigger fan of the US cover. I agree with TankSpill about the UK cover. It seems very old school, and the old school art doesn’t really do much for me personally.
The UK cover is definitely better imo, if not quite as good as the covers to the first 2 books in the series.