{"id":4409,"date":"2016-02-19T16:05:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T21:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2016-02-19T16:05:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T21:05:46","slug":"where-to-start-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/the-rule-of-mirrors\/where-to-start-a-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to Start a Series?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/the-rule-of-mirrors\/rule-of-mirrors-blog-tour\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4395\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RoMBlogTour-300x113.png\" alt=\"RoMBlogTour\" width=\"150\" height=\"57\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RoMBlogTour-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RoMBlogTour-450x170.png 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RoMBlogTour-250x94.png 250w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RoMBlogTour.png 646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s great when a reader asks me where to begin reading a series because it implies an openness to jumping into a world midstream, so to speak. In the case of the Vault of Dreamers series, I suspect readers would get more of a kick out of it if they start with the first book, so that&#8217;s what I recommend, but if someone first encounters Book 2 (<em>The Rule of Mirrors<\/em>), he or she could certainly enter the story with the characters at that point and understand what&#8217;s going on, even without reading Book 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibliophiliaplease.com\/2016\/02\/theruleofmirrors-blog-tour-kaylas.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4411\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bibliophelia-300x120.png\" alt=\"bibliophelia\" width=\"150\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bibliophelia-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bibliophelia-768x307.png 768w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bibliophelia-450x180.png 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bibliophelia-250x100.png 250w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bibliophelia-900x360.png 900w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bibliophelia.png 1768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>In case you&#8217;d like the lowdown on the first book in the series, <em>The Vault of Dreamers<\/em>, Kayla over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibliophiliaplease.com\/2016\/02\/theruleofmirrors-blog-tour-kaylas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bibiophelia, Please<\/a> has posted her review of that novel today, for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/the-rule-of-mirrors\/rule-of-mirrors-blog-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rule of Mirrors Blog Tour<\/a>. \u00a0Drop by and check it out. \u00a0She&#8217;s running a giveaway, too. Thanks, Kayla!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s great when a reader asks me where to begin reading a series because it implies an openness to jumping into a world midstream, so to speak. In the case of the Vault of Dreamers series, I suspect readers would get more of a kick out of it if they start with the first book, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[606,505],"class_list":["post-4409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-rule-of-mirrors","tag-rule-of-mirrors","tag-vault-of-dreamers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4412,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions\/4412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}