User blog comment:Mrcharlton/YJS books may not be canon/@comment-71.114.230.148-20110527061300/@comment-1771352-20110527171422

Even though the YJS books were written before POF, since the latter was written for adults, we should probably take it more seriously (as it is far more realistic than YJS; not that POTC is supposed to be realistic though). The dialog in POF is written more Pirates of the Caribbeany than YJS which is more like "Lets go find the treasure, oh no, a bad guy! Lets kill them with our swords. Yes! We won the battle! Now off to find the treasure again. Darn it! We got shipwrecked! Lets build a new boat. We have found the treasure but the bad guys are guarding it! Kill them and take the treasure. We are victorious! Lets go look for more adventures).

POF is written in more of a style that the movies are written in.