Light Cleric

Information

Status

Completed

Year

2020

Author

Ira Creasman

• Chapter 10
  Apr 17, 2021
• Chapter 09
  Mar 27, 2021
• Chapter 08
  Mar 13, 2021
• Chapter 07
  Mar 13, 2021
• Chapter 06
  Feb 13, 2021
• Chapter 05
  Jan 30, 2021
• Chapter 04
  Jan 23, 2021
• Chapter 03
  Jan 9, 2021
• Chapter 02
  Dec 26, 2020
• Chapter 01
  Dec 12, 2020
• Prologue
  Dec 11, 2020

Reviews

Community Reviews(3)

• CasualDarkSoulsRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  This is the story of an abused little orphan who decideds to try to help those around her.  It is... not a happy story.... But it moved me. If you can read something sad and beautiful then you should.
  The characters grow and think and feel and hurt... (Really hurt). But they try their best and I feel like I have not felt as attached to any characters in a long time.
  The only critic I have is that occationally there are some time skips that were a little hard to parse. A few of the final battles were hard to follow making it seem more frantic, but also confusing. Overall some refining is all I can say cound be improved a little.
  Do not read these spoilers until after reading the story I want to talk about details but some of this will ruin parts.
  I was heart broken with the fathers death, but if felt right.
  I also appriciated the contrast of willow with her father.
  I loved her fear and struggle both with being called Mother and with confronting Willow.
  I appricated that both temorance and piety found love then turned away for duty/care for her sister and duty to world/respect for the man respectively.
  Naratively, I feel strongly that piety should not leave the story yet, but I am unsure if I want her two sisters to bring her back or her to simply talk to and council them from the cosmos.
  However I know for certain my heart wants her back so she can experience something of joy in her own life (not suffering and not living in duty to save those around her)
  I will be reading the next books but I admit I do not know if my heart can take such a tragedy too soon
  Author, your work is incredible. Thank you.
• RonDuneRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  This is the story of Piety Churchstep and Temperance Sunday, two orphans who go through extraordinary abuse at a church, rise through their tribulations into becoming something greater. Piety becomes an impressively powerful cleric/mage and Temperance a genius herbalist/chemist.
  It is their friendship and love for each other through their early torture at the nuns, war and eventually supernatural conflict against a powerful foe that really makes the story shine. The writing is excellent. There are hints of plots playing out behind the scenes and every side character has their own goals and motivations, they rarely wait for our MCs to catch up. It is hearbreaking at times, as characters you love die suddenly and events spiral out of control, but the author carries us through. The way Piety eventually learns to handle death with grace honestly made me teary-eyed. The ending stumbles though, with events being disjointed and unclear. Another chapter or two to breathe would be better.
  In the end, it's the relationship between the Piety and Temperance that carries the story. They are so devoted to each other, soul-friends. There is never any fake drama between them, even during hardships and misunderstandings. They love each other, and that is enough.
  Which is why the ending will rip your heart out.
• luda305Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  This is a very good story about an abused little orphan who lives up to her name (Piety) and turns out to be one of the most powerful clerics in history.
  Overall, it is very good and I enjoyed myself greatly. This is very close to a publishable quality book, though I suspect that a professional editor would help to strengthen up some of the weaknesses, especially with the plot.
  A first warning: the first 2-3 chapters are really brutal. The author really plays up how terrible the head of the orphanage is and, given similarities to Catholicism, it comes across as both exhausting to the reader and a bit heavy-handed in allegory.
  In terms of pacing, the story does a good job on small and medium scales, but has a bigger problem overall. I'd have a hard time describing how the plot moves forward across all 30 chapters and, indeed, would have a hard time classifying what the overall plot is.  The time skip transitions could use some work.
  The last major concern is with chapter 30, the climax of the plot.
  First, it's very hard to follow along. And while I think that the author was going for some sort of time loop idea, that was both poorly handled and frankly seems a bit forced in order to avoid writing Piety into a corner.  Second, it's all very rushed.  It could have easily been three chapters, but it's crammed into one and there are a lot of unanswered. Devorah attacks her personally for some unknown reason.  And despite the prophesies she had of the battle, that all seems to ultimately be irrelevant as she largely focuses on rescusing the vhamps and killing Frederick.  There are also hints that the Purple Prophesier is a time-lost Piety. Third, the chapter and book end abruptly with Piety's presumed death. Given that occurs at the climax of the action, it's deeply unsatisfying that there's no denouement.  Naturally, I would think that the epilogue would consist of Temperance, Devorah and Isabel reflecting/mourning what happened to Piety and the battle. But cutting us of