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The Young Ancients #2
Knight Esquire
The royal life is not sitting with Torrance Baker well at all. His relationship with his “fiancée” isn’t going as planned, his sister is acting weird, and giant Counts are trying to beat up his classmates. To make matters worse, as if they needed it, someone is clearly trying to kill him. Who would do something like that? No one knows for certain. On top of that he doesn’t really know if the King is his friend or hates him. Either way he needs to figure it out fast, because attacks are coming from all sides, and if Noram’s newest Knight Esquire can’t figure it out soon, he’s dead.
423 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 10, 2012
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P.S. Power
188 books294 followersP.S. Power works in fiction, mainly focusing on Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror genres, with brief forays into other things just to keep life interesting. He averages 1 to 2 books monthly and has several series going. He lives in an isolated cabin in the middle of nowhere, as a recluse, yet still manages to find time to talk to people online, in a positive and delightful manner. Not one of those creepy hermit types though, you understand. It's more of an isolated farm style thing. Or ranch really. He's also interested in three dimensional photography, and long moonlit walks on the beach, sometimes with vampires. When he can find time he also does writing and voice work for scripted online programs. Anyway, feel free to drop him a line.
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Hello Everyone!
In chatting with Dale over the past few weeks, it was decided that he was interested in blogging to you, his readers. The blog he had within the main site was not going to be a viable solution and there were thoughts of just creating a Forum where only he could post and everyone else could reply. This MOD is a nice meeting of the two for what will hopefully be a highly successful blog!
Hoping this first (and only) post by me will kick off a nice method of interaction with Dale's readers!
Brent / Argy / ArgyrosfeniX
p.s. - Also going to try and get the feed that comes with this to feed into Amazon and Goodreads. Good luck to one and all!!
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Or visit his forum:
http://pspowerbooks.com/phpBBF/index.php
http://pspowerbooks.com/phpBBF
A place to get together and discuss the books, and other topics.
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Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:01:08 -0500
http://pspowerbooks.com/phpBBF/blog.p...
http://pspowerbooks.com/phpBBF/blog.p...
Hello Everyone!
In chatting with Dale over the past few weeks, it was decided that he was interested in blogging to you, his readers. The blog he had within the main site was not going to be a viable solution and there were thoughts of just creating a Forum where only he could post and everyone else could reply. This MOD is a nice meeting of the two for what will hopefully be a highly successful blog!
Hoping this first (and only) post by me will kick off a nice method of interaction with Dale's readers!
Brent / Argy / ArgyrosfeniX
p.s. - Also going to try and get the feed that comes with this to feed into Amazon and Goodreads. Good luck to one and all!!
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November 14, 2015
This one was as good as the first, one warning, it has non-explicit references to sex, and oral, etc. Which may, or, may not be suitable for my mom, or your kids..
May 22, 2014
I felt annoyed, reading this book. Actually, I felt insulted.
The first in the series was a little rough. It was poorly punctuated and a bit rambling. But it was nothing like as bad as this.
This one reads like a first draft by someone who was typing too fast and whose grasp of basic spelling is loose, to say the least. (Or, as the author would quite likely spell it, "lose too say the lest".) The to/too confusion, in both directions, crops up frequently, though not consistently - at one point there are three consecutive sentences, and two of them have it right and the middle one is wrong. There are grocer's apostrophes, there are missing apostrophes, there are missing words in sentences, there are many, many incorrect homophones up to and including "he'd" for "head". It's a mess.
Those aren't the only issues, either. One character is mentioned by name twice (one of them misspelled) before he introduces himself to the viewpoint character, for example.
Part of the reason I say that I feel insulted is that this book is not, apparently, self-published. (That would be bad enough, because I think it's disrespectful to your readers to just slam your first draft up on Amazon without doing more than a cursory spell-check. People do it, but in my mind it's rude and less than professional.)
It's much worse if you're published by a small press. I've visited the publisher's website, and although P.S. Power's books are the majority of what they put out, there are other authors listed there, and they are advertising for submissions.
My advice would be not to send them any. If they have a copy editor - and this book doesn't show any evidence that they do - then that person is doing an incredibly poor job. That's disrespectful not only to the readers, but to the authors. They're basically adding no value beyond, possibly, getting a cover designed. I suppose that explains why they only take a 10% cut.
Even leaving aside the roughness of the English (which is hard to do, because it was just so bad), I didn't enjoy this book as much as the first in the series. The main character, Tor, spends about the first third of the book having a serious pity party and asking a tediously large number of rhetorical questions of himself. Then he perks up a little and starts replacing his monogamous lower-class sexual morality with that of the "royals" (which is how all the nobility, however far from the actual royal family, are referred to). This basically boils down to "extreme promiscuity from at least the mid-teens, persisting beyond marriage," and frankly I found it a little repellent. "Oh, best friend, you're engaged to my sister but you also want to sleep with my current girlfriend and my fiancee (who are two different people), and a couple of other women? Sure, why not? Hey, you like my mother too, right? Why not go for it?"
We're told at various places in the two books that people are sometimes jealous, but nobody actually seems to be, just like most of the nobility don't act like the dangerous high-handed despots that we're being told about either. They're described as something like actual medieval nobles (though there are hints that this is a post-apocalyptic future), but they act like hippies: peace, free love and egalitarianism, man. Oh, apart from the odd berserker rage, of course.
At one point in my reading I was considering, in the spirit of the main character's generosity, offering to do a free edit. The setting is interesting, the premise is fresh, the main character (apart from his tendency to go on and on, and his cluelessness, and the way he gets down on himself) is appealing and different. I've decided not to do that, though, for a few reasons.
Firstly, I couldn't find a web presence for the author where I could make contact. (I might not have looked hard enough, but the impression I get is that the author doesn't want to engage with readers. I couldn't even find out if P.S. Power is a man or a woman, or what country he or she lives in, though I'm betting on the USA based on the occasional clanging American colloquialism that gets randomly dropped into the middle of the prose.)
Secondly, editing is the job of the publisher they already have.
And thirdly, as I read on I liked the book less and less. Although I'd kind of like to know what happens next, I won't be buying the next one.
It's a pity. I thought I'd found a series I could enjoy, and was fully prepared to buy all of them. But this is a big letdown.
The first in the series was a little rough. It was poorly punctuated and a bit rambling. But it was nothing like as bad as this.
This one reads like a first draft by someone who was typing too fast and whose grasp of basic spelling is loose, to say the least. (Or, as the author would quite likely spell it, "lose too say the lest".) The to/too confusion, in both directions, crops up frequently, though not consistently - at one point there are three consecutive sentences, and two of them have it right and the middle one is wrong. There are grocer's apostrophes, there are missing apostrophes, there are missing words in sentences, there are many, many incorrect homophones up to and including "he'd" for "head". It's a mess.
Those aren't the only issues, either. One character is mentioned by name twice (one of them misspelled) before he introduces himself to the viewpoint character, for example.
Part of the reason I say that I feel insulted is that this book is not, apparently, self-published. (That would be bad enough, because I think it's disrespectful to your readers to just slam your first draft up on Amazon without doing more than a cursory spell-check. People do it, but in my mind it's rude and less than professional.)
It's much worse if you're published by a small press. I've visited the publisher's website, and although P.S. Power's books are the majority of what they put out, there are other authors listed there, and they are advertising for submissions.
My advice would be not to send them any. If they have a copy editor - and this book doesn't show any evidence that they do - then that person is doing an incredibly poor job. That's disrespectful not only to the readers, but to the authors. They're basically adding no value beyond, possibly, getting a cover designed. I suppose that explains why they only take a 10% cut.
Even leaving aside the roughness of the English (which is hard to do, because it was just so bad), I didn't enjoy this book as much as the first in the series. The main character, Tor, spends about the first third of the book having a serious pity party and asking a tediously large number of rhetorical questions of himself. Then he perks up a little and starts replacing his monogamous lower-class sexual morality with that of the "royals" (which is how all the nobility, however far from the actual royal family, are referred to). This basically boils down to "extreme promiscuity from at least the mid-teens, persisting beyond marriage," and frankly I found it a little repellent. "Oh, best friend, you're engaged to my sister but you also want to sleep with my current girlfriend and my fiancee (who are two different people), and a couple of other women? Sure, why not? Hey, you like my mother too, right? Why not go for it?"
We're told at various places in the two books that people are sometimes jealous, but nobody actually seems to be, just like most of the nobility don't act like the dangerous high-handed despots that we're being told about either. They're described as something like actual medieval nobles (though there are hints that this is a post-apocalyptic future), but they act like hippies: peace, free love and egalitarianism, man. Oh, apart from the odd berserker rage, of course.
At one point in my reading I was considering, in the spirit of the main character's generosity, offering to do a free edit. The setting is interesting, the premise is fresh, the main character (apart from his tendency to go on and on, and his cluelessness, and the way he gets down on himself) is appealing and different. I've decided not to do that, though, for a few reasons.
Firstly, I couldn't find a web presence for the author where I could make contact. (I might not have looked hard enough, but the impression I get is that the author doesn't want to engage with readers. I couldn't even find out if P.S. Power is a man or a woman, or what country he or she lives in, though I'm betting on the USA based on the occasional clanging American colloquialism that gets randomly dropped into the middle of the prose.)
Secondly, editing is the job of the publisher they already have.
And thirdly, as I read on I liked the book less and less. Although I'd kind of like to know what happens next, I won't be buying the next one.
It's a pity. I thought I'd found a series I could enjoy, and was fully prepared to buy all of them. But this is a big letdown.
December 12, 2019
Rating 4.0 stars
While I enjoyed all the the new advancements in magic that Torv developed in this book and how they were utilized, I think the authors biggest talent is emotionally manipulating the reader. I hated this story, but I also kind of loved it. The emotions I felt while reading this story (mainly the first half) were intense. I didn't think there was any way the author could explain everything away by the end of the story that would have made me okay with what happened to Torv. Somehow I found myself at peace by the end of the story. I was really pissed off at what happened to Torv in the first part of the story.
I do think there is something going on in the background that would explain what was happening. Something very subtle, I am just not sure.
While I enjoyed all the the new advancements in magic that Torv developed in this book and how they were utilized, I think the authors biggest talent is emotionally manipulating the reader. I hated this story, but I also kind of loved it. The emotions I felt while reading this story (mainly the first half) were intense. I didn't think there was any way the author could explain everything away by the end of the story that would have made me okay with what happened to Torv. Somehow I found myself at peace by the end of the story. I was really pissed off at what happened to Torv in the first part of the story.
I do think there is something going on in the background that would explain what was happening. Something very subtle, I am just not sure.
December 24, 2018
Good Read.
A book on a crafter that is a slice of life story. Enjoying the series as I read through it.
A book on a crafter that is a slice of life story. Enjoying the series as I read through it.
February 25, 2013
If you like this story and you like the main character, this book will piss you off! I am writing this while I am on the 5th book "Counselor" though and I like the overall story. The pissed off part I would say is from my liking the books and the attachment to the main character Tor. I will say this, Power's has a way of writing that will just suck you into the characters and stories, it was the same way for me with the Infected stories. No spoilers here, I will just say that it a good story with lots more to come!
May 15, 2021
This book marks the start of open relationships
This book starts to bring more open relationships up and in front. It will also only become more further along in the books.
This book starts to bring more open relationships up and in front. It will also only become more further along in the books.
December 29, 2018
Great book, it expand more the social aspect of the high society or the nobles and how alien it is to our poor baker boy, eventually he guets to figure out some of it and we can see him beguin to adapt, wich in fact is a sign of growth for him. Now I really hate what happened with his engagement But well that also was part of his learning expierence and allowed him to mature more, so even if I don't like it I can see why it was done.
December 1, 2025
Much Less Woe Is Me
I felt like the characters were beginning to develop into more realistic people. I appreciate that Tor is not quite as whiney. I find hi naivete about sexual matters pretty unbelievable.
I felt like the characters were beginning to develop into more realistic people. I appreciate that Tor is not quite as whiney. I find hi naivete about sexual matters pretty unbelievable.
May 10, 2018
/!\ CUCK WARNING /!\
/!\ BEWARE! /!\
This entire series in nothing but one continuous event in cuckholdery.
/!\ STAY AWAY AT ALL COSTS! DO NOT BUY! /!\
/!\ BEWARE! /!\
This entire series in nothing but one continuous event in cuckholdery.
/!\ STAY AWAY AT ALL COSTS! DO NOT BUY! /!\
June 19, 2025
You have got to love Tor! This book has him doing some amazing builds (read magic). He is knee deep in politics but somehow seems to come out of it Ok. Looking forward to the next book!
November 27, 2013
The adventure of Tor continued....
again I can only give this book 3 stars not 4, because of the minus thing this book have.
I like Tor, he is a very smart but naive person. but his naivety borderline stupidity. in almost every scene where the emotion is highten it became dull when Tor using his logic. some of his logic even misplaced.
I thought this book is YA, but change to adult for some reason. this story have a very loose relationship between charaacter, not very good for moral.
And once again, a very bad grammar and editing....often I need to read between the line coz the author didn't state it very clearly.
I like the twisted plot though, it give some jolt in the story.
August 15, 2016
The magic system and main character were even better than the first book. The betrayal he faced gripped me. But the editing was way, way worse. Many little mistakes (spelling, punctuation, etc.) and even big mistakes (sentences that didn't have a verb) made this book worse. And then about halfway in it started to get very sexual--in a totally unbelievable way. By the end, the do-the-right-thing-even-if-it-kills-me country boy raised with conservative moral standards starts a brothel without any pressure to do so--and then it ends even more ridiculous.
First half of the book, 4 stars, fading to 2 overall by the end.
First half of the book, 4 stars, fading to 2 overall by the end.
December 1, 2014
Good book with many unexpected events and decisions by characters. I did like the first book better as it felt more polished but Power certainly takes you for a ride. My main criticism for this series holds, this book does not have a true ending. While I understand it is a series it is a bit gimmicky to end a book on basically a cliff hanger. I honestly like the book but as it is you can't read it on its own and still feels satisfied.
December 22, 2012
Excellent. Characters continued to develop and draw one further into the story. The pace really picks up in the final third of the book and I'm so glad I have book three since I will be staring it as soon as I finish writhing this review....
And yes, more typos in this than the first but only mildly distracting.
And yes, more typos in this than the first but only mildly distracting.
August 4, 2019
OK 2nd book
I liked parts of the book and found parts painful. Give it 3.5 stars because Tor takes a lot of grief in the book and is just way too nice and forgiving to everyone that treats him poorly. He seems to start getting a spine by the end of the book so hopefully that carries through to the next book.
I liked parts of the book and found parts painful. Give it 3.5 stars because Tor takes a lot of grief in the book and is just way too nice and forgiving to everyone that treats him poorly. He seems to start getting a spine by the end of the book so hopefully that carries through to the next book.
November 1, 2012
Good book this quote sums up why I like it.
"It wasn't magic, just a decision, a choice to love instead of let himself hate, and to pick good things instead of bad.
Power, P.S. (2012-03-10). Knight Esquire (The Young Ancients) (Kindle Locations 8080-8081). Orange Cat Publishing. Kindle
"It wasn't magic, just a decision, a choice to love instead of let himself hate, and to pick good things instead of bad.
Power, P.S. (2012-03-10). Knight Esquire (The Young Ancients) (Kindle Locations 8080-8081). Orange Cat Publishing. Kindle
June 23, 2013
I was just at the point of throwing this away when I finally got a connection. I still have major problems with Tor, but since I already have the next two volumes available (free), I'll keep plugging away at this series.
March 22, 2015
Familiar and at the same time unique,I found it very enjoyable. Only reason it isn't perfect is that I found the hero a bit too passive and accepting, and things seem to simply happen to him(ie he isn't much of a go getter)
March 23, 2015
Read the whole series
I thought I would give this series another chance. Last time I got confused after about the 6th book. This book is good. I just wish the main character would learn his lesson. I mean he is suppose to be smart right?
I thought I would give this series another chance. Last time I got confused after about the 6th book. This book is good. I just wish the main character would learn his lesson. I mean he is suppose to be smart right?
July 16, 2013
This book pulls out my anger while reading poor Tor..
January 4, 2014
Awesome!
Great story!!! Love the storyline and the main character is stellar!!! I can't wait to see how it all develops in the rest of the books.
Great story!!! Love the storyline and the main character is stellar!!! I can't wait to see how it all develops in the rest of the books.
July 4, 2020
Really hate how much crap Tor has to go through, which lowered my rating. I've already read the next 4 books and it doesn't get better, but this one was hard yet not the worst.
July 7, 2019
Interesting
Interesting storyline with twists and turns as treachery abounds with in the kingdom as county regions of totals fight one another.
Interesting storyline with twists and turns as treachery abounds with in the kingdom as county regions of totals fight one another.
January 3, 2015
very good
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