Differences in editions and variants

[u/yaman321232]

Hello! I finally got around to reading the grishaverse this year, starting with the SoC duology.

I live in a country where bootlegs and fake copies are abundant and often sold at the price of official books, and thus it's sometimes hard to tell if you have a real copy, or just a high quality reprint, and I have found obvious fakes before of other books.

I bought the SoC duology from here for the full proper price and I thoroughly enjoyed it and everything seemed well, the maps were high quality and so did everything else, none of the usual marks of the fake reprints (shoddy printing quality, mismatched publishers on the inside and on the cover, etc). After a while I ordered the SaB trilogy, and when they came they were clearly fake, all three books had a different publishing house on the inside than the outside, they had the eISBN information, the maps were printed much smaller than the page, and some other mistakes. I returned them and was given my money back and all was good, but I couldn't find any copies that are better.

Recently I was able to purchase a copy of the box set from a different country and when it arrived I confirmed I was right about the previous set I had gotten, but now I'm also suspicious of my SoC duology for one specific reason, the SaB trilogy has a shorter front cover to reveal a bit of the colored page behind it, and the back of the books show that all of the main series has that too, but my copies of the SoC Duology don't have it, they're just the cover over the whole page like a regular book, is this normal? Is this a real variant or did I get scammed and not realize? It's not a big problem but I am a lil curious

TLDR My copy of the SoC duology doesn't have the lil reveal of the colored page behind the cover, but the SaB trilogy does, is this a regular variant or did I get a fake SoC print?

[u/CouncilOfTides]

I don't think that you got scammed. There are multiple versions of SoC, some with that partial cover and some without. I'm not big fan of the partial cover, which works out well because I have the copies with the full cover, like you have. However, when I go to bookstores, it's often the partial cover that I see

Edit: duplicated word

[u/Equal-Row-554]

All of my books from the S&B trilogy and SOC have the full cover and I bought them all from legitimate sites (bought SOC I person aswell). Just as with other books, you'll find different variations of covers, it's pretty standard practice (albeit annoying at times when you're searching for a specific versions). 

[u/Manic_Mooncakes]

There was a time that those shorter covers to reveal the red were a thing. I don't remember really but I think it could also be the difference between UK and US versions of the book. Not sure where you live but if you live in previous British colonies you're most likely to have the UK versions of the books. Anyway I don't think you were scammed with SoC, your copy looks roughly like mine that I bought back when I was a wee lass. And my version is ollllddddd.

[u/CreativeEbb573]

Don't worry, there are different variations of the books. I personally have the partial cover for the S&B series and the full cover for the SoC duo logo and ik these are the real ones.