Actually this book isn't that connected to the earlier ones. All the characters that repeat are a few years older, and I think/hope that their intros are brief enough not to be infodump and informative enough to prevent confusion. Most of the characters but the main ones are new. Though if you find the books and WANT to wade through them again, it certainly wouldn't hurt my feelings.
In addition to refreshing my background to the characters, a re-read would also refresh my memory of your universe, and that's important to me. And I do enjoy re-reading series. I recently re-watched a TV show that I'd seen only a year ago and I was amazed at not only the details that I'd forgotten but at the new connections that I made. While I broadly remembered the show, I'd forgotten a lot of the nuanced bits
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This one isn't out yet--it comes out in April. You can pre-order it, of course, online, but it's still making its way through the process and hasn't shipped.
Hastings was a weird chain. They had two aisles of Christian stuff and six or so shelves of computer books and most of that was Dummy books. Their SF/F was intermixed so you had no way of seeing what was new releases if you didn't know in advance. I gave up on buying books from them a long time ago, I'd wait until we were at a B&N (most of my Amazon buying is not books). Their magazine stock was decent, their video side was good and they had good sales on new and used. Music was hit or miss because of my music tastes. Cafe was decent and the restrooms were clean
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They're both amazing covers. I think I lean more towards the UK one because there's so much more detail in it but I suspect the US one might be more meaningful once I've read the book. I'm looking forward to the release; I recently listened to the whole earlier series on audiobook so it's good timing. Mind you, I'm not sure how long it will be before the audiobook version of this one comes out...
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