Review: just as good as I had hoped it would be, and better than I expected.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2013
The only series i've read from P.S. Power is the Young Ancients, so I wasn't really sure what to expect when I had heard they were planning on continuing the story from a different perspective.  Many times I've read a series and the shift to a new protagonist would kill my urge to read any books from that point forward.  I am glad to say that I was wrong on this occasion.  I saw a review that said they didn't like that it used a lot of the same settings and people, and to me that was what made up for any other deja vu I might have had reading this.  I also saw someone who said that the main character, like Tor, was being taken advantage of all the time by him giving his stuff away to help people.  I do not know what value system that belongs to, but it makes me sad.  Tor, I can see being said he was taken advantage of, but Timon was able to say no if he wanted to if someone said they needed things, and he helped people because it was the right thing to do, and he could.This book goes to some dark places towards the end, and yet I think the character evolved from it, instead of being the same character with a dark cloud over his head for him to whine about like i've seen from other authors.  I found the book hard to put down, as I did the other Young Ancients books, and though i'm sure i'll enjoy it, that little voice in my head is still dreading starting the next book from another new perspective.  All in all way more than worth it for the asking price of a dollar(at the time of this review).  If you loved the first books with Tor, this continues the story well from where it left off, just without our(or at least my) favorite character.  Many of the great secondary characters are fully featured in this book, and some cameos from a couple others.  If you haven't read the first couple books I highly recommend doing so, because they are good, and like one or two of the reviews i've read you might be completely lost if you try to pick it up here(though I thought there was quite a bit of exposition regarding the events from the first few books for people to pick it up, but it seems that's not the case).It just about deserves five stars, but I can't quite bring myself to do it on this one.