A Tale of the Secret Saint novel
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This popped up on Amazon's recommendations for me a couple of days ago. Figured, why not?
Now, I'm stuck waiting until late February to continue on...
Born into a long line of knights, Fia is determined to become a knight herself, just like all her siblings. But a brush with death awakens memories of her past life as a Saint--a woman who wields rare, powerful healing and protection magic--along with the ability to use that magic herself! The downside is that Fia also remembers her past life's untimely death, and the danger she will be in if anyone finds out what she really is. She vows to stay on her knighthood path and keep her powers a secret forever! But how can she resist using her newfound powers when they're just so useful?
It's not "epic", but kind of fun. The MC is a bit over powered, is NOT "born as the protag in game I played before dying in Japan," but IS trying to avoid the "bad end" that she had in her last life.
She gets her past life memories and powers after being (almost) killed by a dragon. From there, she decides she has to hide her abilities until she becomes strong enough to avoid that former bad end.
There are aspects of Mile/Kaoru (keeps slipping up while trying to hide her OP nature) and Katarina (accumulating potential suitors without realizing it).
Unfortunately, it's too soon to pre-order v2 on Kindle. I can order the paperback, but still wouldn't get it for
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@someoldguy said in A Tale of the Secret Saint novel:
Now, I'm stuck waiting until late February to continue on...
Always a bittersweet pill to swallow when a series you want to read gets licensed but not by JNC. A 6month/1 year wait for the first volume then anywhere from 4 months to never for the next one.
The first volume was entertaining enough but i get the feeling i'll have forgotten what happened when vol.02 is out.
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@kurosov At least it's light enough to breeze through v1 just before v2 arrives...
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@kurosov said in A Tale of the Secret Saint novel:
Always a bittersweet pill to swallow when a series you want to read gets licensed but not by JNC.
And with Seven Seas and CIW they don't set the ebook publication date until close to release so I can't preorder after finishing the current volume. I keep a text file to remind me that series like Reincarnated as a Sword volume -x- will be out (someday).
Life is hard! ;) #firstworldproblems
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@someoldguy Thanks for the recommendation. :)
In case anyone's interested in the WN, it can be found here: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7673ff/
The numbering's a little confusing, but if you want to pick up where the first LN volume left off, it should be around installment 36 or so unless I'm mistaken.
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@someoldguy I read about half of this so far, based on your recommendation, and I'm really enjoying it. The main character has amazing analytical skills (I'm pretty sure here that her analytics are a standalone ability that goes beyond her Saint power to read someone's health status, because she can list off all the cues that clued her in on something when people pester her about how she knew - "Your step is just a bit longer on your right leg, and you tend to put your weight on your right foot when standing, yet you're a highly trained knight who should have perfect posture, which makes that unusual. That's how I figured out that your left leg was injured." - and figuring out monsters' attack patterns by observing how they fight so she can take advantage of the openings they leave, etc)
But she reads the room and interprets what others say about as well as Bakarina (i.e. she can't)
This confuses the hell out of her superiors in the knight brigade on the order of "how can someone so stupid be so smart" and vice versa, which leads to great comedy.
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Grrr... Amazon did it again, confusing "light novel" and "manga".
Last night my Kindle popped up a notification that v2 was now available for pre-order, releasing February 1, 2022. This morning I clicked the button...
Then I noticed that v2 of "4-book series" for the novel is actually book 2 of the manga series. The second LN is still scheduled for April, and I can't pre-order that.
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@someoldguy said in A Tale of the Secret Saint novel:
The second LN is still scheduled for April, and I can't pre-order that.
Yep, it's annoying that only the print editions are listed, and print is listed for several months after the digital versions will become available.
I cope (like I said above) by having a notes file with dates of everything I might want in calendar order, and then preorder about a month in advance.
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Pour éviter les oublis, j'utilise ceci personnellement
https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/wiki/upcomingreleases/#wiki_january
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@la-mergouille said in A Tale of the Secret Saint novel:
Pour éviter les oublis, j'utilise ceci personnellement
https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/wiki/upcomingreleases/#wiki_january
Thanks, that's a good list with several titles Amazon didn't think to tell me about.
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V2 of the manga released yesterday. It covers up to the end of the novel V1.
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@someoldguy And if you have it on Kindle and you're reading the novels but not the manga, beware because Amazon mis-labeled it as the light novel again. It's not the light novel (volume 2 of that isn't out in English yet), it's indeed the manga.
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@pcj Yeah, I bought manga V2 thinking it was LN V2, and man I'm still kinda pissed!
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@windsagio said in A Tale of the Secret Saint novel:
@pcj Yeah, I bought manga V2 thinking it was LN V2, and man I'm still kinda pissed!
Amazon keeps sending me emails pushing Saint 2 and Loner Life 2, but of course they are the manga not the LNs. Grrrrrr!
That and my Kindle lately has been showing "next in your series!" lock screen ads...for kindle books I already purchased from Amazon ages ago.
Their AI for recommendations is a mix of evil and incompetent, with only rare flashes of useful.
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@harmlessdave Recommending this series in the first place, BRILLIANT!
After that... Not so much.
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Volume 2 of the NOVEL was released 3/22 on Amazon. After listing nothing but the paper version for months (it releases next month), it finally appeared.
Haven't read it yet.
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@someoldguy I read it, was pretty fun, not too much progress on the main plot (whatever that is supposed to be), but a lot of funny character moments and harem solidification.
Logic is out, Unreasonableness is in!
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@windsagio It feels a lot like what would have been a good first novel was slightly too long to fit into one book, so it got split into two and padded out with side stories. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it as well - but the 2 books worth of text probably only has 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 books' worth of plot in it.
https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/6701/omnibus-builder
https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/5745/ascendance-of-a-bookworm-omnibus-editionsThe Primal Desires: Food, Sleep, Sex, StroZero, Hypnotism, and Awayuki Kokorone.
Item Diaria Apothecaria legi debent.
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@kuali Those were pretty much my thoughts after finishing it. It probably would've come across better reading directly after volume 1, but the massive delay seven seas had for some reason coupled with the fact it was just a glorified third act left me a bit flat sadly.
Hopefully the third volume returns to the high bar the first set.
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I enjoyed it as a silly fun clueless protagonist story like the early Abilities Average with Mile so smug about "fooling" people :) .
I agree volume 2 is more like 1/2 book + bonus stories. I do hope we get a volume 3 and it has more main story.
