Steve’s Disappointed Eyebows

hahahahahha………………..

it was bad enough when they released new covers when the animated films came out but this is so much worse (the live action film doesn't need to exist and no one can change my mind)

and like - is this book 1 or ?? what even is this because it can't be a book-of-the-film kinda thing because it's written by cressida cowell and the sticker indicates that whatever this book contains came out before the films which don't even follow the story of the httyd books so WHY DOES THIS NEW COVER EXIST??????? YOU'RE FEATURING CHARACTERS ON THE COVER THAT AREN'T EVEN IN THE BOOK? TOOTHLESS DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THAT IN THE BOOKS HE A SILLY LITTLE GREEN PIECE OF SHIT DRAGON (and i love him)

also "the legend is real"??? where did that tagline even come from? it's so cheesy I can't even

to compare - these are some different versions of the older covers, which imo are SO much better and not as misleading as these new film versions. they're so colourful and the art is so cool

For context, i read book 11 before book 12 was published and i didn't knew when book 12 would come out, i didn't look in the internet or anything. I only found out the publication of book 12 when i saw it in the shopping mall bookstore. Me and my dad where about to exit the mall when i decided to visit the bookstore, i went straight to the children's and youth section i saw a big display in a table to a new book with a turquoise cover. Surrounded by other children, I approached the table so I could see the cover of the book, the first thing that caught my attention was the gigantic reptilian eye, then i noticed the name right above : Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III.

Recognizing that this was the long-awaited conclusion to my favorite series, I nearly screamed in the middle of the bookstore before picking up the book and begging my dad to buy it. He bought it and I was so excited to find out what happened that I started reading it in the car, even though I have severe motion sickness when i am in a vehicle and not looking directly at the windows. When I got home I just read, non-stop, because I needed to know what was going to happen to Hiccup and Toothless. I started reading in the middle of the afternoon and when it was 2 in the morning my mother came back from a Carnaval party and noticed the lights of my room were still on, she opened the door and found me lying on my bed in the fetal position crying desperately. I had finished the book, but I felt like my childhood had ended with it and I felt so much pain saying goodbye to the characters I had followed for so long. These feelings, along with the grief I felt for Furious and that beautifully written epilogue made me burst into tears, but I didn't feel bitterness or frustration, the ending was perfect, the message was perfect.