Some people will never understand the frustration that can go with being a true collector. I don’t care what it is you love, (mine is books) when something like this happens the trauma we feel is real.

I fell in love with this author this year by accident, so much so that I decided to add her to my personal collection (You know 90% of what I read comes from libraries, but some you just GOTTA own).

So anyway she’s been publishing for years and so for some reason her books covers took a hard left turn MID SERIES ?!?!? WTF??? The only thing that hurts a collector more is when the sizes change between books in a series, and then we just cry.

I was able to get the first 3 books (all used) no problem and the fourth I had to get from Canada to stay in cover vein. Then Book5 WHAMO! She switched to the more Heraldic type covers. Now what do I do? Continue the collection in the new style and have a mismatch on my shelves? Or do I donate the first 4 to the library for others to enjoy and waste funds starting all over again?

And here’s where the real book lover’s craziness comes in, I will forever know I gave the first four away and those fakes ones I replace them with on the shelf aren’t the TRUE books I fell in love with. How could she do this to me???? Bonus pain points for the last book which just came out in 2022 which are prequels to the main characters adventures and she went BACK TO THE ART STYLE ON THAT ONE!!!

Seriously she’s trying to kill me here. What are your thoughts? How would you proceed with your collection on this???

PS-I intentionally withheld the author/series name as I don’t want my little rant to some how get back to the used bookstore I frequent and then I won’t get shown her future copies.