![]() Part of what makes the original three books such classics is the experience of the characters’ discovery, coupled with your seeing the world through their eyes, as you read. The famous “I am your father” cliffhanger in “Empire Strikes Back” would be utterly non-suspenseful. It would be kind of like a new movie viewer starting the Star Wars movies with “The Phantom Menace” (Episode I) and watching them in “internal chronological order” instead of in the order they were released. If you read this book first, all that is destroyed. Even though I hadn’t read this book, I knew the general outline of the story from information revealed in “The City of Gold and Lead” (the second book of the original trilogy). Otherwise you’re setting yourself up for spoilers. ![]() My first word is to those who have not read these books. ![]() I received an Amazon promotional e-mail mentioning the upcoming release and promptly pre-ordered it, downloaded it on the day of its release, and read it in the space of a few hours. ![]() ![]() I was unaware of this prequel until several years after it was published, and I never got around to reading it until it became available for the Kindle in September 2013. ![]()
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