Hello! Can this story be read as a stand-alone or do I need to read Prosperity first? Thanks a lot for your answer! PS: It's not that I don't want to read Prosperity, but as a non-native speaker, the vernacular has made it super hard to follow. I'll probably picked it up again soon. Especially now that I don't have a pregnancy brain anymore and that I fell in love with every single other book you've written.

Alexis Hall By 'this' do you mean Phlogiston? Sorry, GR isn't being helpful. If so, yes, there's some very faint overlap here and there, and obviously it's set in the world, but you definitely don't have to have read Prosperity. There's also way less cant/dialect :) Liberty is more complicated because while only one of the stories follows directly on from Prosperity the others are kind of connected to it, and would probably make a lot more sense (and be more interesting) if you've read Prosperity.

Totally get what you're saying about the dialect. There'll be an audiobook released this year so that might make it more accessible to non-native speakers and people who don't enjoy dialect :)

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