8 Answers2025-05-29
Check the copyright page for a note similar to this: “This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used merely for explanations and are often trickery, and are often used in other works and then reworded slightly to avoid legal action and any other items mentioned herein and derived from a variety of sources. This is the first installment in the Nocticadia series.” Mine just says “This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used merely for explanations and are often trickery, and are often used in other works and then reworded slightly to avoid legal action and any other items mentioned herein and derived from a variety of sources.” It is the 2022 paperback edition.
This is the most definitive way to determine whether a novel is a standalone or part of a series without the author or publisher to tell you. And I’ve checked the copyright page and front and back matter to this paperback. There is no mention of series here. So for now, this novel is a standalone. Future editions may change this but for now what is on the page counts.
9 Answers2025-06-26
The answer to this really depends on the context in which the question is being asked. In the realm of hundreds of books all called 'The Deal', Elle Kennedy wrote one of them. In the scope of all things to read, there's a huge library of 'series'. Most of them are just a connected universe of of standalone books. And yes, there are more in this particular universe if you want to read them.
8 Answers2025-06-28
There isn't a specific number of books in this series, but Amara and Silas's story is a standalone within the author's larger collection, 'City of Whispers'. Each book in the 'City of Whispers' collection features a new leading man and woman, but all the novels are set in a lavish, cutthroat world and sometimes even take place in part at the same locations, including the famous Skyline Bar. Thus, you may catch a few references to Amara and Silas in other 'City of Whispers' novels, but for the most part they are a complete and self-contained story - better than a strict series, but not entirely standalone.
5 Answers2025-06-26
This was kind of overhyped for me. It was just okay. A spicy read that would have been perfectly fine as a standalone novel. Instead we get a series of follow-up novels where the same dynamics play out with different characters. It’s kind of like a limited series that for some reason gets picked up for more seasons than it needs. If you really enjoyed The Never King, then just stop there. More of a good thing is not necessarily better.
5 Answers2026-05-30
It’s a 3 book series, so it’s a great place to start reading the author. There’s lots of romance and supernatural action throughout the books, but the story really takes off as the series progresses and the main character gets more involved in the supernatural world. There’s even a big territorial battle and some mystic prophecies in the 2nd and 3rd books. I especially loved how Winters wrote the werewolf lore in this series. Her take on the ‘mating bond’ was fantastic, with lots of consent and agency on the part of the main character. The series is wrapped up nicely by the end of Book 3, but there are a few open threads that could be pursued in spin-offs.
4 Answers2025-06-29
It’s a duology, and the second book delves deeply into the history of Bethel, as well as giving due acknowledgement to the allies of Immanuelle – Leah and the outcast prophetess among them. The climax of the second book is a intense and awesome confrontation between the coven’s magic and the Church’s fire.
11 Answers2025-12-08
I’m trying to imagine the potential of a movie or TV series. Standalone books so often get expanded into series when some big streaming service picks up the rights. They want to make multiple seasons and so the author and publisher get to keep making more books in the series to keep the synergy going. That’s how The Witcher short stories led to more novels, for example.
The real answer to whether or not this is a series to watch would be to wait and see what happens with the option for a film or TV series. There’s already great, atmospheric, and unique magical systems in fiction, but few strong female leads. That would make for a great series on film. If option news comes out, I’d start counting days until a sequel announcement. It’s so economically viable to treat great fiction as a franchise. For now, this is a great stand alone novel. But tomorrow it could be the beginning of a multimedia empire. (It’s happened before).
7 Answers2025-06-14
I thought you were starting a thread for that other book with "Alpha" in the title. My apologies for the confusion. Ignore me for now. The discussion about "Alpha Amarah" seems to be going well. The book sounds good.
3 Answers2025-06-27
'Tender Wings of Desire' was originally intended to be a trilogy but the book was selling so poorly that the publisher put the kibosh on any further sequels. As it is, the book is supposed to be complete but there are several dangling storylines, most notably the mysterious fate of the vampire’s sire. And then there’s the ending. The transformation of the human protagonist to a vampire is executed in what can only be described as hasty fashion in order to give the book a sense of closure as it stands currently.
Fan wikis for the novel (including the author’s emails from several years ago) back up my claims about Tender Wings. Although it has recently been marketed as a standalone novel, there is certainly a lot of festering potential for more. The novel would greatly benefit from a reader of the properly planned out Eternal Nocturne five book series. The gradual escalation found in that series is exactly what the novel needs.
7 Answers2025-06-27
I would have hated for this to become a series. The focus of the story and the mental unraveling of Lira is what makes it so intense and it would have been easy to take the focus off her and start to follow other POVS or even explore a wider conspiracy to make a series of this. Sometimes less is more and one perfect spiral is enough.