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A Tale of the Secret Saint Light Novel #4
A Tale of the Secret Saint (Light Novel) Vol. 4
SICKNESS AND SCARS
The yellow-speckle fever is running rampant in Sutherland, and the townspeople are suffering. But even as the disease grips the populace, they are still too distrustful of the knights to accept their help. Maybe what they need is some good old-fashioned fairy-tale magic. Can the "Great Saint" get through to them and provide the cures they need--healing both the disease and the scars of the past?
The yellow-speckle fever is running rampant in Sutherland, and the townspeople are suffering. But even as the disease grips the populace, they are still too distrustful of the knights to accept their help. Maybe what they need is some good old-fashioned fairy-tale magic. Can the "Great Saint" get through to them and provide the cures they need--healing both the disease and the scars of the past?
- GenresLight NovelFantasy
225 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 16, 2020
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June 2, 2024Poor Kurtis, having to put up with her stupid acting for another lifetime. I have to say that in the flashbacks she did seem slightly smarter. In this life, she can’t even keep a thought in her head long enough to learn who the black knight was.
Here she is pretending to be the possible reincarnation of herself, while healing and doing other things that make it obvious that she is the reincarnation. The poor chief and villagers are trying very hard to follow her wishes and pretend they believe her, but…I mean later she abandons the charade, but it’s hard to tell if that was inadvertent or not.
I really wish Fia would study up and find out what supposedly happened after her death (we know that history is wrong). And she should ask Kurtis for true details. I am quite curious as to if the demon that killed her was actually killed a long time ago by her loyal knights after her death, so she has no reason to fear him. It is very, very clear that Kurtis is aware that her death wasn’t as simple and painless as she assured him, so I’m sure they investigated what happened. I was flabbergasted that Fia thinks her brothers actually told people she was still alive but too wounded when they left her - WTF. Why would that be a good story to tell?? Better to tell everyone she was already dead! I also want to know why Sirius didn’t go with, as he seems to be crazy powerful. Why would her asshole brothers go?? And why was the right hand demon of the demon lord still alive to torture her? Don’t you usually kill all the minor bosses before being able to fight the last boss? Where was he? Since the demon lord is only sealed, will he break free? Fia believes if the demon comes for her, all her friends and captains will die, but why does she believe this? Her brothers were able to defeat how many demons up to the demon king, and they didn’t seem special.
A knight gets blown off the cliff into the water, and Fia as well. But the islanders say the ocean is so calm it shouldn’t be a problem (well, for the knight - everyone panicked once she fell in). Look…the ocean at the base of a cliff shouldn’t be calm, particularly if there are winds strong enough to push a strong man off. And Fia got water in her mouth so she tried to clap both hands over her mouth instead of just…closing her mouth…?
Saviz shows up, and in his side story (yep, there’s a slew of side stories as usual) you find that he saw in the beginning that Fia has the eyes of a ruler and was calm and blah blah blah. What kind of bad judgment is that? Not only is Fia stupid, but even as Serafina, she didn’t have control over anything, not even her own schedule 🙄 he says Cyril is under the curse of the saints (what does that mean??), and how his mom being a saint made him obsessed with saints. Isn’t Saviz’s mom also a saint, since Cyril’s aunt is the one that married the king instead of the mom? I mean, that was also stupid because of the whole tradition of the king marrying the strongest saint, but also has to marry before 30, and saints marry after 17. So…in 300 years it never happened that the ages were off? And why let the saints get so arrogant when they don’t even have much power? Respecting the Great Saint should not follow that every saint just gets revered when they suck. Fia, showing off her great intellect, is shocked to discover that saints are weak (she learned this a few books ago, but I guess she forgot). However, saints in her time were very weak compared to her as well…it’s hard to know how much they’ve declined and why.
Luckily everyone around her is dim also. No one thinks it’s weird that Saviz shuts her up by putting his fingers in her mouth while she’s talking, and they believe her when she says she doesn’t know what holy stones are even though she literally just said their name. Why does she tie one stone around her ankle? To exercise? With weight on only one leg? I can’t even…Sirius apparently hired and trained the islanders in great numbers…what happened to that? In 300 years why haven’t the islanders integrated more then?
Fia really thinks no one is at fault in the big conflict. Um. No, the duke and duchess were totally at fault. That’s not a touching moment for her to say that as if she’s thought it over so deeply. It completely ignores that the duke slaughtered people for no reason.
Btw, the illustrations aren’t great either. They are so disturbingly disproportionate in the one with Cyril kneeling to her 🤦🏻♀️
Here she is pretending to be the possible reincarnation of herself, while healing and doing other things that make it obvious that she is the reincarnation. The poor chief and villagers are trying very hard to follow her wishes and pretend they believe her, but…I mean later she abandons the charade, but it’s hard to tell if that was inadvertent or not.
I really wish Fia would study up and find out what supposedly happened after her death (we know that history is wrong). And she should ask Kurtis for true details. I am quite curious as to if the demon that killed her was actually killed a long time ago by her loyal knights after her death, so she has no reason to fear him. It is very, very clear that Kurtis is aware that her death wasn’t as simple and painless as she assured him, so I’m sure they investigated what happened. I was flabbergasted that Fia thinks her brothers actually told people she was still alive but too wounded when they left her - WTF. Why would that be a good story to tell?? Better to tell everyone she was already dead! I also want to know why Sirius didn’t go with, as he seems to be crazy powerful. Why would her asshole brothers go?? And why was the right hand demon of the demon lord still alive to torture her? Don’t you usually kill all the minor bosses before being able to fight the last boss? Where was he? Since the demon lord is only sealed, will he break free? Fia believes if the demon comes for her, all her friends and captains will die, but why does she believe this? Her brothers were able to defeat how many demons up to the demon king, and they didn’t seem special.
A knight gets blown off the cliff into the water, and Fia as well. But the islanders say the ocean is so calm it shouldn’t be a problem (well, for the knight - everyone panicked once she fell in). Look…the ocean at the base of a cliff shouldn’t be calm, particularly if there are winds strong enough to push a strong man off. And Fia got water in her mouth so she tried to clap both hands over her mouth instead of just…closing her mouth…?
Saviz shows up, and in his side story (yep, there’s a slew of side stories as usual) you find that he saw in the beginning that Fia has the eyes of a ruler and was calm and blah blah blah. What kind of bad judgment is that? Not only is Fia stupid, but even as Serafina, she didn’t have control over anything, not even her own schedule 🙄 he says Cyril is under the curse of the saints (what does that mean??), and how his mom being a saint made him obsessed with saints. Isn’t Saviz’s mom also a saint, since Cyril’s aunt is the one that married the king instead of the mom? I mean, that was also stupid because of the whole tradition of the king marrying the strongest saint, but also has to marry before 30, and saints marry after 17. So…in 300 years it never happened that the ages were off? And why let the saints get so arrogant when they don’t even have much power? Respecting the Great Saint should not follow that every saint just gets revered when they suck. Fia, showing off her great intellect, is shocked to discover that saints are weak (she learned this a few books ago, but I guess she forgot). However, saints in her time were very weak compared to her as well…it’s hard to know how much they’ve declined and why.
Luckily everyone around her is dim also. No one thinks it’s weird that Saviz shuts her up by putting his fingers in her mouth while she’s talking, and they believe her when she says she doesn’t know what holy stones are even though she literally just said their name. Why does she tie one stone around her ankle? To exercise? With weight on only one leg? I can’t even…Sirius apparently hired and trained the islanders in great numbers…what happened to that? In 300 years why haven’t the islanders integrated more then?
Fia really thinks no one is at fault in the big conflict. Um. No, the duke and duchess were totally at fault. That’s not a touching moment for her to say that as if she’s thought it over so deeply. It completely ignores that the duke slaughtered people for no reason.
Btw, the illustrations aren’t great either. They are so disturbingly disproportionate in the one with Cyril kneeling to her 🤦🏻♀️
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March 26, 2024
This whole series makes me laugh out loud and laugh quite hard sometimes
Fia both misunderstands and understands situations. When it matters she understands but when it doesn't she completely misunderstands and it's absolutely hilarious. But the truly funny thing is when people explain what happened badly causing everyone else to badly misunderstand what actually happened. Truly a wonderful story.
Fia both misunderstands and understands situations. When it matters she understands but when it doesn't she completely misunderstands and it's absolutely hilarious. But the truly funny thing is when people explain what happened badly causing everyone else to badly misunderstand what actually happened. Truly a wonderful story.
December 4, 2022
💛💚💙💜
I am in love/obsessed with this series!! Via is amazing and her antics are hilarious. I love all of the captain's and there interactions with her. That ending was perfect. I cannot wait to find out who is Sirius and looks like Green and Blue will soon join in her crazy lol. I cannot wait for the next book to come out!!
I am in love/obsessed with this series!! Via is amazing and her antics are hilarious. I love all of the captain's and there interactions with her. That ending was perfect. I cannot wait to find out who is Sirius and looks like Green and Blue will soon join in her crazy lol. I cannot wait for the next book to come out!!
December 22, 2022
Still hilarious and has its entertaining moments, but I really would appreciate even more plot progression versus more short stories that already tell us what we know: how weird Fia is.
I can only hope this doesn't fall into the "funny shenanigans for more than half of the series and then exposition dump in the final book" pitfall. I really like this series, it'd be a shame if that happens.
I can only hope this doesn't fall into the "funny shenanigans for more than half of the series and then exposition dump in the final book" pitfall. I really like this series, it'd be a shame if that happens.
March 22, 2023
I started this story on manga and continued it on the novel. I really like the story. Though I think each volume packs few stories that made the story appears to progress slow, it was still an interesting read that one can breeze through the entire volume especially if one is fond of side stories.
December 9, 2022
Funny
A nice read for a quiet day or while waiting in line. It's simple and amusing. No heart-pounding moments plot wise but I'm still happy whenever a new novel comes out.
A nice read for a quiet day or while waiting in line. It's simple and amusing. No heart-pounding moments plot wise but I'm still happy whenever a new novel comes out.
April 2, 2023
After reading this I am now strongly suspicious that Cyril is also a reincarnation from 300 years ago, but he doesn't yet remember it, like Kurtis/Canopis.
November 24, 2024
I liked this volume. The introduction of more interesting characters and world-building was fun.
February 23, 2025
good.:)
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