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Originally Posted by kyrilson
Too bad it's book #12. Otherwise I'd give it a try. I can't read books out of order. It's a compulsion.
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Have you read book 1? The way I go is read the first book. If I totally love it, I pick up the books on deep discount over time (I have other things to read). After about 3 years, I've often accumulated much of the series at much lower cost. I almost never pay full price, but if I had to do so for 2 books out of 12, not a problem. I also prefer to read books in order although some of my detective series really only require that you read the first book or two and then the rest can be random. Most scifi and fantasy build from prior books, so not really an option, IMHO.
A good recent example was Michael Jecks series The Last Templar. My Mom wanted to sell/give away the paper copies, but she does love this series. I had 2 or 3 of the books and now the entire series has been on sale. Most expensive was $3.99. So, have nearly the whole series (29 books) for about $50 instead of the original prices combined of near $200. Most were accumulated in the last year. Kills my TBR but Mom has already read all that have been issued.