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Originally Posted by 4691mls
I do prefer each book to be basically stand-alone without cliffhangers.
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I've a number of books in mystery series where the books do not end on a cliffhanger. But even still, they are NOT standalone. You get the progression of the characters that would be spoiled. Sometimes you get talk of things that happened in previous books. Reading out of order can spoil some things. Standalone does not mean no cliffhanger. Standalone means that nothing at all in the book relies at all in any of the other books in the series. Even one sentence that refers to a character's progression or something that happened previously can make it not standalone.