Does "The Great Cleric" Get Better After Volume 4?

Jiltist

I'm reading "The Great Cleric" and volumes one and two were pretty alright. But after that the quality just really drops off. All the interesting parts are timeskipped only to be briefly recapped during later dialogue or monologue. Makes me think 'maybe I should just swap to the manga.'

Anybody read past volume 4 able to give pseudospoilers on whether the content has actual storytelling later on?

Rahul Balaggan

Sorry for taking the easy way out, but I am going to screenshot and paste what I said about future volumes in Discord.

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GeorgeMTO

Since I'm included in the screenshot saying I dropped it (as I did not enjoy v4 and v5 and thought it was headed in a boring direction) I did find v6 more enjoyable on catchup and am now up to date with the series.
I do think it returned to something more reminiscent of V2, but there's another volume to force yourself through before you get there.

strangeattractor

@Jiltist

I dropped it for a while, and started reading it again at Volume 9, the one that is currently being translated. I'm enjoying it more than Volume 3 or 4. Feel free to skip ahead to Volume 9 of you want to see what a later volume is like. I don't regret skipping the volumes in between, though I went back and read volume 8 afterward.

Kurzaa

I'm with you. Was considering dropping the story myself, but stuck with it and just finished volume 6 which I thoroughly enjoyed.

Windsagio

Trying to remember now, what happens in Vol 4?

Kurzaa

@Windsagio volume 4 is the start of the Yenice arc. Not sure when exactly it starts though. Enjoy the stories while reading but can never remember the specifics afterwards.

Geezer Weasalopes

@Windsagio said in Does "The Great Cleric" Get Better After Volume 4?:

Trying to remember now, what happens in Vol 4?

That appears to be the entire problem...

Ah.
Yenice.

Need we say more?

Shiny

I dropped the series half way through Volume 5 so it's good to hear that it gets better from Volume 6.

rsog412

Interesting; I dropped this series in volume 4 (rather, I read volume 4 to the end but didn't bother picking up volume 5).

If others in similar positions are saying that the series gets better, I'll give it another look.

HarmlessDave

Yes, Yenice was a mix of second-rate Realist Hero city-building & lite politics, together with Saint Master be a good slave-owner yassir he be.

It was not awful, but not something I'd point to as why anyone should read the series.

RobD

Up to book 8, I liked the stories.
Book 8: Didn't like it.
This story is all over the place. Slavery is also featured heavily throughout and that's not my thing, plus fate and defeating fate. If done well, fate can work. If done badly, like in this story, it's just an excuse to cover up a random set of weird events. While reading it I was thinking why? again and again. Maybe you'll like the story if you read it without asking yourself questions.
Maybe it's just a set-up for book 9. I hope that book will be better.