Following the recent release of Frivolous Pursuits as the second book in the Hipposync Archives series, a reader recently asked if they had to read the first book, The 400Lb Gorilla, in order to enjoy the second. The answer was an emphatic, no. A serial is a story told in many installments with a story line weaving through the books and leading to a single point of conclusion, as with The Lord of The Rings for example, and it makes sense to read them in sequence. In a series, the same charac...