This Young Master Omnibus: Books 1-3

Plus Bonus Story: This Clone Is a Protagonist’s Master

By: D.C. Haenlien

Narrated by: Ronnie Rowlands, Tiffany Suzuki, Hannah Schooner, Giancarlo Herrera

A cultivation fantasy published in light novel style with black and white illustrations.

On the surface, Xi Tianyi was the only son of Sword Empress Xi of the Buzhou Immortal Sect, the number one expert in the Huang Realm. His birth was noble, his status exalted. But the truth was that Xi Tianyi was actually a reincarnated man from a world known as Earth.

On Earth, he was no one special, but with his new life, Xi Tianyi aims to reign invincible: past, present, and future. Among his goals was to travel back to Earth and reunite with his family.

However, as Xi Tianyi proceeds further on his Immortal path, he discovers that rather than the protagonist, why does he seem more like the cannon fodder villain?

©2024 D.C. Haenlien (P)2024 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

It’s just a training montage book

I’m eight hours in and the only thing happened is training. There is little main story. just a bunch of side Quests. The author throws around different terms for the same Realms. So if you’re not extremely familiar with it, it’s hard to follow along. I never went to Google so many times to stay focused with A book. I must’ve heard what realm somebody is in like 400 times I might be exaggerating, but it doesn’t feel like it. When is the story gonna start? Stop training!

Ronnie is a fantastic narrator. Edit.: he starts laughing in the second book. He needs to work on that.
Tiffany has a lot of work to do. She has one way of speaking and it is gal speak. Slightly annoying. She can change her voice to young middle-aged annd old and that’s it.

Edit: two hours into the second book. It’s really boring. I’m done.

Probably too self aware

Wuxia novels are generally pretty cliche and silly and I am on board for that usually. This one is a bit too self aware of the cliche's and I think tries to avoid the cliche plot lines without really offering a different more interesting plot. There is a point at the start where the main character is reflecting on how things are a lot like the standard wuxia novels so the author is almost pointing out how silly that is. It feels like the author is trying to avoid those plot cliches but as a result in the main character is just cultivating throughout the book which ends up being conflict free and boring. By the end of the first book I almost wish he had been engaged and had his finance call off the engagement because that would have been some conflict at least.

The narration could have been better. It's a bit hard distinguishing between characters and I think the pronunciation of names changes a few times which didn't help. Wuxia novels are kinda hard tho because it feels like they're always making up words to describe different stages of cultivation. Doubly in this because we're blasting through cultivation stages and methods and describing all these made up things that never get used because our biggest conflict is with lightning from the sky.