Because there is an entire history in the prior stories in this series this short novella is not really a stand alone and I have taken a strong dislike to all the characters who were introduced, especially Jack so not interested in starting from beginning of the series. That is not a failing due to the story premise, world building or vision author has for this series it is just a personal quirk on my part because there are too many books that I own digitally as well as real from brick and mortar stores to waste time on books I really do not want to read.