Review: The Games The Ancients Play
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 25, 2012
What about The Ancients?  P.S. Power hints at the role that these old guys (literally three thousand years old) play in kingdom-making.  And finally the reader gets a taste of what it is that they do in Counselor (The Young Ancients series book five).  Tor finally realizes, at the end of the previous book, that every turn of event seems to be set in motion by The Ancients in some way, shape, or form.  And he finally has an opportunity to meet many of his elders.  The get-togethers range from cordial and respectful, to outright violent.  Each Ancient that we meet has different agendas and motives, and it is entertaining to see how our young buck, Tor, responds to each Ancient.P.S. Power continues to deal with the aftermath of an issue he raised in the last book, Ambassador: child abuse.  How does Tor and the nobility deal with such incidents?  The actions taken reflect again the goodness and nobleness in Tor, and the sacrifices that he will endure for the sake of children.Counselor  is by far the best volume in the series.  It is evident that the author spent a lot of time editing this book, and the editing issues occur less frequently than in previous volumes.  He also does a great job summarizing and weaving the major events of the previous volumes into this book, with cameo appearances by virtually every major character in the series.  These are still some explicit sex scenes, but they are much fewer in frequency, and there is good reason, story wise,  behind the occurrence of each.Please take a bow, P.S. Power.  You earned it.