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When someone says a book in the middle of a series is stand-alone, I don't believe it. Using DiapDealer's definition of stand-alone, if the book does not fit that definition, then it is not stand-alone. For those reading this thread, stop trying to mislead others by saying books in a series are stand-alone. Say they are self-contained. But, it there is anything referred to from previous books or anything going on (like the main character has a scratch that happened in a previous book), then it's self-contained with a capital BUT (and my statement to go with the BUT is don't read this as it's not 100% self-contained and in that case you could be spoiling something you really don't want spoiled).
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