Beyond Selidor

I for one am pretty cynical about it. I don't doubt that Samantha Shannon was dissatisfied with the books in their original state, and what author is going to turn down the chance to correct all the rookie mistakes of their debut novel — with the full support and backing of the publisher, gorgeous new covers, marketing fanfare and all? But it does seem like a cynical moneygrab on the part of the publisher — sell more copies of books from a decade-old series (to people who didn't buy them the first time around but discovered Shannon's writing through her second series, to people who already own copies of the original versions but want the complete, 'correct' versions), get that series back in front of the eyes of readers whose attention may have wandered due to the long time it's taken to complete, and with a long wait still to go for the fifth book, etc.

So while I find it interesting on an intellectual level to hear her talk about the exercise of updating previously published books, I won't be buying the new editions, and my feelings about the whole thing are decidedly mixed.