The journey of a thousand miles

We got an interesting question about the Vulcanverse series this week:

"I understand that The Houses of the Dead is book one, so is there any difficulty jumping into that if I start from a later book in the series instead, say The Pillars of the Sky which is book four? I was wondering if I need to follow the order of the books for an optimal experience?"

OK, that's an important one so I'll answer it here. You can start with any book in the Vulcanverse series and move between them in any order. They don't escalate in difficulty the way Fabled Lands does throughout the series. The numbering of the series is just because bookstores like Amazon insist on a series having a book 1, book 2, etc -- it doesn't actually mean any more than that.

That said, the grand finale takes place in book five (Workshop of the Gods, due out early next year) and that does raise the stakes to epic proportions, and you'll need to be an experienced adventurer to tackle it -- but you can even start in that book, and you won't get access to the endgame until you are fully prepared by having completed the three labours in each of the first four books.

In short, you can't go wrong so just pick any book that appeals to you and dive in there.