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Originally Posted by JSWolf
As for the Aaronovitch book, it was nominated because the previous month the book club read the first book in the series and that would have been a perfect time to read the second book. I am reading the second book and it does help to have read the first book. Aaronovitch does not recap.
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*sigh*
I should've know better than to use that word. He definitely doesn't provide a summary of the previous book. He does slip enough information naturally into the opening scenes so that an adept reader can figure out what's going on.
But yes it's better to have read the first book first.
It's also unlikely to win the vote.