I’m going to rant a bit here
ok so the last book in a series I’ve loved since I was 12 has apparently come out because I bought it at a bookstore today
which on the one hand is great because I’ve been thinking of rereading them anyway (the main thing stopping me has been the thought that maybe they weren’t as good as I thought they were but anyway)
but???
despite me never having met another person who has read this series who I did not force to read it it seems to be pretty popular
popular enough for them to remake the covers
do you see where this is going
like normally I don’t really care about cover art because to be honest most of it sucks (when i’m an adult I intend to earn money by changing this)
but these were some of my favourite covers of all time, i would jsut look at it (also at each chapter there was an illustration by the same artist as the cover and I loved those too)
and the new covers suuuuuuuuuuuuuck
like
wow it is a shitty 3d modeled dragon that is so ~original~ and ~artistic~ and it has dramatic lighting that is so great
aka it looks like every other bad ya fantasy novel out there basically
instead of the old covers, which were both creative and visually appealing
idk if there are still chapter illustrations though, I haven’t looked yet
i think mostly I’m annoyed by this because the publisher has for some reason replaced cover art that I love a whole lot and would spend time looking at and is probably a pretty big influence in who i want to be as an aritst
with art that looks like every other cover out there, it is not creative, it does not make me want to read the book, it is in a style that personally I really dislike
and uuuugh I know I’m kind of making a big deal out of nothing
but really those were some of my favourite book covers of all time and bc i love art I appreciate them as art and now it’s jsut gone and I don’t like that