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This is the only part of the news I find to be enticing tbh.
Of course I'm hoping that since the first book is Serpine's book, he will be on the cover, but I'm not holding my breath. As for the 'exclusive bonus content', I'm hoping it will be more excerpts from the first draft because I would honestly kill to read it in full. I'm kind of tempted into wanting to buy it, which is a first since HBL, and we all know what a disappointment that turned out to be. At the same time I really don't want to buy it because I know the 'fixes' he did for the Matt Taylor cover editions made both the books and Serpine as a character worse. Apparently the most egregious thing he did was change the scene where Serpine offered Bliss wine into him offering him elephant-shit coffee along with an autism rant about it. Landy really is giving his best to ruin Nef because he just has to ruin it every time he has a good thing going because we can't have nice things. And I don't want to reward him for his BS by giving him money :/
When I heard 'special edition', my first thought was the battle card edition of the first book I successfully managed to hunt down. If the new special edition includes a special merch item like that again, I might buy it for that alone because we sure as hell are not getting any good merch from the actual merch store đ
I hope he'll post more info on the special anniversary edition in the coming days so I can make up my mind if I want to buy it or if I will ignore it completely because rn I just don't know enough about it to make up my mind yet.
Btw of course I'm not going to read a new series by Landy. His writing in phases 2 and 3 sucked ass. And Demon Road rightfully flopped so hard he had to crawl back to SP, I don't know why they are pushing it with a cover rerelease. I didn't make it past the first book, and I hated every second of it. I was dating an American chick at the time and was liveblogging to her, and for someone that loves the US that much, he sure as hell gets nothing right about it according to her, which I had already been suspecting tbh. The books were even more weirdly sexual than SP and you'd think HarperCollins might wanna stay away from that with the Epst**n stuff still being on everyone's mind. DR even had a Nef stand-in, Dacre Shanks, which somehow got done even dirtier than Nef. I am 100% convinced Nef/Dacre are based on someone Landy hates, so it must really gall him that even only me and maybe 3 other people prefer Nef over his self-insert characters despite Val and Skul still getting the vast majority of fan attention, that petty little b---











