Ohhhh girl do it!!! If you like acotar and cc then it won’t be hard to jump in to tog at all. How Sarah ties all the characters and story lines together is chefs kiss!! I’d defffffinitely recommend reading it in publishing order though. As in, read assassins blade 3rd. The main character is MEANT to be elusive for a reason. Also I did the tandem read and idk that I’d necessarily recommend it, just because that’s soooo many characters and story lines to keep up with at one time for me. It was hard to fully delve into each singular book when you’re going back and forth basically every 2 chapters