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The Smith #2
The Smith: Adventures in Town Building Part II Kingsford
A complete rewrite and expansion of the original Adventures in Town Building
Part II Kingsford follows a seventeen-year-old Chet as he is summoned to the Kingdom's capital. His girlfriend, Princess Ilana, is delighted to introduce him to the rest of her family. He has made such a splash all the way out in the wilderness that the King and Queen want to meet him. Or maybe they want to see the young man whose bed their daughter delights in diving into.
During his initial visit, Chet starts finding issues that should be taken care of as soon as they can be accomplished, so he starts doing his best. He also can't keep his big mouth shut nor hide his passion for making the Kingdom a better place for all. The King develops a hobby of dumping responsibilities on Chet's ever-broadening shoulders. Or maybe it is the Quenn tasking him, hoping to distract Chet enough that he forgets his goal of keeping his clothes on around her.
Part II Kingsford follows a seventeen-year-old Chet as he is summoned to the Kingdom's capital. His girlfriend, Princess Ilana, is delighted to introduce him to the rest of her family. He has made such a splash all the way out in the wilderness that the King and Queen want to meet him. Or maybe they want to see the young man whose bed their daughter delights in diving into.
During his initial visit, Chet starts finding issues that should be taken care of as soon as they can be accomplished, so he starts doing his best. He also can't keep his big mouth shut nor hide his passion for making the Kingdom a better place for all. The King develops a hobby of dumping responsibilities on Chet's ever-broadening shoulders. Or maybe it is the Quenn tasking him, hoping to distract Chet enough that he forgets his goal of keeping his clothes on around her.
- GenresFantasy
414 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 2, 2024
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October 15, 2025
Good progression, but bad timeline
I like the overall progression of technology, but the timeline is ridiculous as it would be impossible to build up expertise and tooling. The one glaring tech missing is water and sewage treatment,
The underlying story is good, but it mixes 10 paragraphs of tech updates, then slides in one or two paragraphs about the characters and then another 5 of tech updates. It would be nice to have some separator or other notable change to see such details.
We never quite understand the driving force for the MC. Despite having magic well above his peers, he chooses tech advances at an extreme pace. The other characters seem to lack independence.
The antagonists are a bit cartoonist.
I like the overall progression of technology, but the timeline is ridiculous as it would be impossible to build up expertise and tooling. The one glaring tech missing is water and sewage treatment,
The underlying story is good, but it mixes 10 paragraphs of tech updates, then slides in one or two paragraphs about the characters and then another 5 of tech updates. It would be nice to have some separator or other notable change to see such details.
We never quite understand the driving force for the MC. Despite having magic well above his peers, he chooses tech advances at an extreme pace. The other characters seem to lack independence.
The antagonists are a bit cartoonist.
March 17, 2026
As a manual for creating ingenuous inventions, it's not bad
Our orphaned hero begins building his beneficent financial empire at the age of eight. Once he hits puberty, ask the local girls want to sleep with him, but he turns down the ones who'd been mean to him. Next, a princess falls for him, as does an elven woman -- oh, and all her friends want to make babies with him. Along the way he invents signal towers, steam power, and indoor plumbing, among other things no one else in the whole kingdom had thought of before he did...
It's great fantasy fodder, I expect, for the target audience: I am not that audience.
Our orphaned hero begins building his beneficent financial empire at the age of eight. Once he hits puberty, ask the local girls want to sleep with him, but he turns down the ones who'd been mean to him. Next, a princess falls for him, as does an elven woman -- oh, and all her friends want to make babies with him. Along the way he invents signal towers, steam power, and indoor plumbing, among other things no one else in the whole kingdom had thought of before he did...
It's great fantasy fodder, I expect, for the target audience: I am not that audience.
February 28, 2026
The book is easy to read, but at times it is just a boring list of numerous building sites followed by describing building sites and then discussing building sites. Unfortunately I found myself skipping through large sections of the book.
There is also the big problem that everything is progressing ridiculously quickly and the amount of resources that are being used don’t make sense, for example; the amount of Iron ore that would have to be mined then smelted to meet the demands for ships, barges, cranes, engines etc.
There is also the big problem that everything is progressing ridiculously quickly and the amount of resources that are being used don’t make sense, for example; the amount of Iron ore that would have to be mined then smelted to meet the demands for ships, barges, cranes, engines etc.
February 2, 2026
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February 21, 2026
Thin
95%+ of this book is repetitive filler. It wasn't necessarily "bad", but it got pretty boring through most of the novel.
95%+ of this book is repetitive filler. It wasn't necessarily "bad", but it got pretty boring through most of the novel.
March 20, 2026
Top Notch Fantasy!
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