Bought Orson Scott Card's Hidden Empire without reading the first one...

By goldenarch

I was just killing time in a bookstore and picked up *Hidden Empire* because it sounded interesting. Then I realized way too late that I’d skipped over the whole “sequel to *Empire*” thing on the cover. If you’ve read the *Empire* series, do you think I’ll be lost trying to start with the sequel, or can I jump in without reading the first one?