The Great Cleric: Volume 5

The Great Cleric, Book 5

With the dragon “slayed” and corruption in the Church uprooted, Luciel returns to Yenice a hero, but a hero’s work is never done. His revolution is ambitious (too ambitious, some might say), and in the wake of change always comes resistance. As it turns out, dragons just might be the least of his worries when he realizes that the weeds he plucked might have only been a symptom of the City of Freedom’s underlying disease. Politics are a dangerous game and Luciel’s found himself stranded on the board, but is he a player or a pawn?

As the Wicked One’s shadow creeps nearer and the empire’s boot marches ever closer, Luciel’s prospects of a peaceful life seem to slip further and further away.

©2018 Broccoli Lion; English translation copyright 2021 by J-Novel Club LLC; Original Japanese edition published in 2018 by MICRO MAGAZINE, INC.; Cover illustration copyright 2018 by sime (P)2025 Dreamscape Lore

PLEASE EDIT THE AUDIO

This was such an uncomfortable listen from start to finish. the narrator reads slowly (I speed it up to 1.2x for best experience). the narrator also does A LOT of awkward pauses so we can hear his mouth noises and breathing. it is SO bad.
how hard could it be to at least cut out the awkward pauses? there is almost no effort to the audio and that's so frustrating.
the story is fun but the listening experience is very lacking.

Meh

I'm not a big fan of political corruption plots, and I really hate plots with unknown boogymen lurking menacingly in the background the whole time. I don't like the constant worry from that. It isn't fun nor is it exciting. When you add in a narrator that sounds like the least motivated man in the world, it doesn't really add up to a great listening experience. This series has always has its flaws, but the flaws are growing while the good parts are shrinking with every release.