Ugh, the core gimmick to this series has way outstayed its welcome. I get that it is the key to her power, and the main part of her motivation, but it just doesn't make any sense. No one else (excluding one character for story reasons) at her job is struggling with overtime. The whole mess is clearly self inflicted as she could easily just leave the work for later or quit and find a better job. The longer the series continues without any meaningful change to her work situation (to either justify the overtime or change its nature) the dumber any more annoying the whole thing becomes.

Thankfully the meta story and romance subplot both inched forward in this volume, but if the next volume doesn't do something meaninful with the whole overtime situation, I'm done. 3/5

A Tale of the Secret Saint - Vol 6

Literally half a story for an above average price... This and the last volume (excluding filler "side stories") could have easily been one light novel. Instead someone in the process decided to split the arc in half and pad it out with filler to double dip into the audiences wallets.

The actual story was fine. The ususal antics with the main character fumbling around to make up bad excuses for using OP powers. A modest bit of character and story progression. But even if the last two novels had been one proper volume it would have been 3/5. As an overpriced, half arc... 1/5.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

decided to split the arc in half and pad it out with filler to double dip

Yeah, the same happened to the last two volumes of By the Grace of the Gods. Those two volumes clearly should have been one. With the added bonus that there were 7 months between them.