In the world of similar-looking book covers, we have the separated at birth clones, and we have the “hey, you look like your sister” resemblances. Today, I bring forth an example of the latter.
First cover…

Eragon by Christopher Paolini
And the second…

Ancient, Strange, and Lovely by Susan Fletcher
Side by side:


While there are certainly some differences in type and color, the connection still comes through.






I always felt weird about the cover for the James Owen book Here There Be Dragons. He’s so alphabetically close to Paolini in the alphabet, and it’s not really a dragon-centric book. And then the second book in the series has a red dragon, just like the Paolini series!
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