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Should I read a Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky before starting this one?

Brok3n I'm somewhat conflicted on this question. I agree with VT Dorchester that the book works as a standalone. Like them, I read /A Brightness Long Ago/ an…moreI'm somewhat conflicted on this question. I agree with VT Dorchester that the book works as a standalone. Like them, I read /A Brightness Long Ago/ and /Children of Earth and Sky/ and even /The Lions of Al-Rassan/ long ago and the details are now lost to memory. However, the familiarity of the world helps. Moreover, I constantly find one detail or another of /All the Seas/ tugging at my memory and wish I remembered the other books better. I plan to go back to reread them after this.

I guess I would say that if you're eager to read /All the Seas/, you should plunge right in. But you won't be wasting your time by reading Kay's other works at any time.(less)

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