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So I’m truly not sure if I can give any sort of objective recommendation on whether you should read it</span> <span id="freeTextreview5635142760" style="display:none">Book 2! <br /> Pale Lights has been, for the last few years, the only serial fiction I have been consistently reading week-to-week as each chapter drops. So I’m truly not sure if I can give any sort of objective recommendation on whether you should read it, both because I have long since lost all perspective and because reading this as a complete work is almost certainly an entirely different experience from inhaling each chapter as it comes out. That said: it’s really good! If you like janky epic fantasy webfics I would even say it’s actually the best out there (note that I hate most janky epic fantasy webfics). <br /><br /> Set in the subterranean, god-haunted, repeatedly post-apocalyptic and roughly early modern fantasy world of Vesper, Book 2 of Pale Lights picks up pretty quickly after Book 1 finished – though now with twice as many protagonists. Along with Tristan (alley rat, unrepentant thief, sole follower of a very involved and often unhelpful goddess of luck) and Angharad (noblewoman fleeing her family’s purge and massacre, masterful duellist, swore her soul to an ancient eldritch god for the strength to take vengeance) from the first book, the story now gives equal time to the POVs to their minders from the last trials: Song (expert sharpshooter, aspiring officer, heir to literally the most cursed and hated family name in the world) and Maryam (‘Navigator’ (sorceress), technically princess and first witch of a now-conquered and enslaved people, recipient of a ritual that was supposed to fill her with generations of occult knowledge and might which inexplicably failed). Together they form a cabal at the newly reopened Scholomance, the incredibly cursed and actively malevolent but otherwise extremely useful university used by the god-hunting Watch to train the next generation of their officer corps. <br /><br /> The book follows the four of them through their first year of studies, first at the Scholomance itself and then on a practical exam where the four of them are sent to the troubled principality of Asphodel to fulfill a contract for its ruling Lord Rector. As might be expected, nothing at anything point goes according to plan, and all four of them are hounded at every turn by the ghosts of their past. Also scheming gods, titanic monsters, and incredibly unwise romantic entanglements. <br /><br /> Now this is serialized web fiction, and has both the strengths and the weaknesses typical of the medium. You spend an immense amount of time just existing in all four protagonists’ brains, and every one of them is by the end intensely nuanced, interesting and compelling (likeable, even!) after getting their own richly detailed character arc through the book (The friends reading along with me week-to-week basically all disagreed, but for me at least the story managed the rare trick of not having a single POV I sighed in disappointment to realize was the focus of an update). The worldbuilding is also full of fun details and extraneous little complications that don’t serve any particular purpose in the story, but do an incredible job of making Vesper feel like an actual place with a real history and not just dark fantasy set dressing. On the other hand, the pacing is...let’s be nice and say unhurried. Some of those fun tangents outstay their welcome, and I literally needed a reference page to keep track of all the supporting characters at points. It was also written in pretty much real time across nearly two years, and you can definitely feel that it took some time to decide just what the defining arcs and conflicts of the main cast were going to be – not to even mention the number of plot hooks or details that were basically forgotten about as things progressed. <br /><br /> The plot is divided fairly sharply into two sections – first at the Scholomance and then on mission in Ashpodel. The break is sharp enough I wondered for a while why this wasn’t just broken into two books instead of one (it’s certainly long enough), but having actually finished it all four character arcs really do run through both sections and only get really satisfying thematic resolutions at the very end. Of the two, I vastly preferred the second half – but then, that’s at least mostly just because my tolerance for magical school/university plots has worn incredibly thin these days. (Even the Rectorate plot verged a bit too close to ‘this is all the protagonists running through their teacher’s rat maze and everything is going according to plan’ at times, especially with a couple late revelations that irked me for entirely petty and subjective reasons). But even the true university sections thankfully only spend a bare minimum of time on expository lectures and stressing about exams in favour of politics, vendettas, and kidnapping or murder attempts. <br /><br /> I really can’t figure out quite how to phrase this without sounding dismissive, but the overall shape of the story is basically about the power of friendship, and learning to implicitly trust and rely on (and risk and sacrifice for) your friends instead of trying to control or manage everything yourself. But it really genuinely works! In large part I think because all four protagonists have arcs that approach and reflect it in their own distinct ways and end up reinforcing each other (the big climax cutting between all of them as they culminated was incredibly well done) – but also just because the sheer length the medium enables let the story really dwell on the 2nd act where they’re all wounded and resentful and keeping increasingly dangerous secrets from each other. Entertaining, compelling dysfunction that almost convinced you they really were just going to fall apart. <br /><br /> The worldbuilding is – well, hardly groundbreaking (the historical inspirations of every cultural are entirely transparent, though there’s at least a little twist on each), but a fantasy world that’s early modern rather than medieval in inspiration is honestly still refreshing enough to buy more goodwill than it’s ever needed from me. And the execution of how it’s portrayed does an immense amount to make the place feel lived in and just compelling – the different cultures and states all cohere and are full of enough bigotry, hypocrisy and petty vendettas to be believable, mostly. The gods, monsters, and magic is all genuinely eerie and on occasion awesome in the literal sense. The aesthetics of the whole series are just incredible, really - just don’t think too much about the whole ‘everything is a giant underground cavern’ thing when picturing scenes. <br /><br /> It helps that sheer constant, unrelenting practice have left Erratic really quite good on the level of prose. The banter and little slice of life moments are endearing and both heart-warming and funny as they’re supposed to be, and the dire ruminations and real drama almost always lands like it’s supposed to. Not always in either case, but honestly far more consistently than a great many traditionally published (and edited) authors seem to manage. <br /><br /> It’s impossible to really recommend sprawling web serials like this to 90% of people, but if you are in the market for a secondary world fantasy epic I really don’t think you can do better than this one. <br /><br />-------------------------------<br /><br />Okay technically this is a web serial, not a book but a) it’s divided into ‘books’ and the first one recently finished, b) I’ve read like 350,000 words of it at this point and c) I want to talk about it a bit.<br /><br />So, Pale Lights is a fantasy adventure story, set in a world where some prehistoric cataclysm left humanity living in a truly vast (multi-continental) cavern beneath the earth, full of old gods and devils and a darkness that will sink into you if you go too long without exposing yourself to the Glare of light spilling down from various openings in the firmament (and potentially stored in a variety of magic devices). It stars Tristain, a conman and gutter rat who accidentally killed the wrong man, and Angharad, a minor noblewoman fleeing assassins after the slaughter of her family, as they flee their enemies into the theoretical safety of the Watch, a sovereign military order that might get you killed hunting down rogue devils but is more than powerful enough to offer amnesty to all its recruits and force everyone else to go along with it. Specifically they both try to join through the fastest and most guaranteed method there is – survive and pass the trials on the Dominion of Lost Things, and your spot among their ranks is totally assured. <br /><br />As you might expect, this doesn’t exactly go according to plan for either of them.<br /><br />The plot’s sufficiently full of twists and detours that I’m not going to bother trying to give any sort of detailed synopsis, but one incredibly endearing thing about the whole serial is that it’s structured around these three deadly trials intended to test one’s mettle and worthiness, and absolutely none of them go according to plan. Which, speaking as someone who is generally left pretty annoyed by stories where the entire plot is ‘and then the protagonist surpassed the entirely artifical problems an outside authority put in front of them, meeting expectations perfectly!’, I really did greatly enjoy. <br /><br />The plot was also just satisfyingly and surprisingly brutal – EE’s previous gargantuan serial was explicitly (though increasingly theoretically as it went on) YA, and made plot armour an explicit part of the setting’s metaphysics. Pale Light is...very much that. There were several points where it felt like at least one named, fleshed out character with their own arc was dying horribly every chapter. Bracing! Relatedly, and necessary for that, the cast is big, into the dozens of fleshed out characters the plot leaves behind and goes back to whenever they’re relevant or on screen again. Which is the sort of indulgence you can get away with in a web serial. (I’ve actually seen a lot of people complain that the cast was too large or hard to keep to track of. Those people are weak.)<br /><br />Speaking of characters – the supporting cast is great, and a decent number of them are well-drawn and earnestly compelling, but a story like this really lives or dies on the strength of its protagonists. And I’d say Pale Lights passes that test with flying colours – Tristain and Angharad are both more than strong enough to carry a story on their own, but jumping between them lets the story have a lot of fun with their biases and what they assume or overlook, and their (very different and often wildly misinformed) perspectives on each other, their goals, and the supporting cast are just a joy. EE’s always had a real talent for internal monologue and character voice (even in my least-favorite bits of A Practical Guide to Evil, Cat’s perspective was a consistent delight), and being able to consistently jump between and develop two here really makes them shine.<br /><br />The fact that they’re both a) actually adults, b) morally dubious and c) incredibly devoted to a particular sense of morality and ethics that’s minimum 30 degrees off anything conventionally ‘good’ helps a lot, too. Tristain my beloved shameless vendetta-obsessed will-knife-anyone-but-his-closest-friends-without-a-second-thought gutter rat. <br /><br />It’s actually really quite interesting how, despite one being a chivalry-obsessed bravo whose word is her bond and so finesses her oaths and promises like a mobbed up lawyer and the other being a street criminal second story man with a sideline in poisons, they’re both really incredibly defined by a fixation on loyalty and vengeance. <br /><br />The setting is interesting, though the narrative does sometimes feel a bit like it’s straining under the weight of all the weirdness piled onto it, with the whole ‘everyone’s underground and 90% of light is artificial’ thing. The various gods are all interestingly eldritch, especially Tristain and Angharad’s patrons (Fortuna probably my third favourite character in the whole thing overall), the devils and lemures and monsters are all fucked up and horrifying in a really fun way, and the magic is appropriately occult-seeming. <br /><br />I’m not sure if it’s good or bad, exactly, but I do find the utter shamelessness with which EE copies real world cultures to create fantasy counterparts kind of endearing? I really can’t overstate how incredibly obvious it is that, like, ‘this empire is based on the Aztecs. They border this feudal mess based on India, and this league of Republics based on China. The main city the story launched from is Venice. The big creepy cursed academy is called the Scholomance. The treaty with the devils binding them not to eat people is called the Iscariot Accord. Die mad about it.” Gives the whole thing a real tabletop RPG setting vibe, honestly. <br /><br />Anyway, can’t really say to what degree my attachment to this was built from the Stockholm Syndrome of following it week-to-week, but probably one of my favourite stories read this year, and eagerly looking forward to book 2.</span> <a data-text-id="review5635142760" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> " </span> </div> <br class="clear" /> <table> <tr class="no_border feedFooterReview" id="update_comment_stuff_Review5635142760"> <td> </td> <td colspan="2"> <div class="updateActionLinks"> <a class="updatedTimestamp" ref="timestamp" href="/review/show/5635142760">Feb 23, 2025 06:19PM</a>  · <a href="/review/show/5635142760?book_show_action=false">see review</a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="Updates"> <div class="firstcol"> <a title="Vita Nostra" href="/book/show/38633526-vita-nostra"><img alt="Vita Nostra" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1525132805l/38633526._SX98_.jpg" /></a> </div> <div class="secondcol"> <div class="secondcol-top"> <div class="whos-review"> <div class="userReview"> <strong><a href="/user/show/166386499-laika">Laika</a></strong> is currently reading </div> <div><a class="bookTitle" href="/book/show/38633526-vita-nostra">Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)</a></div> <div> <span class="by smallText">by</span> <a class="authorName" href="/author/show/7580817.Marina_Dyachenko">Marina Dyachenko</a> </div> <div> <span class="userReview">bookshelves: </span> <a class="actionLinkLite" href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/166386499-laika?shelf=currently-reading">currently-reading</a>, <a class="actionLinkLite" href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/166386499-laika?shelf=2025">2025</a> <br/> </div> <div class="userReview"> <div class="greyText" > </div> </div> </div> <div class="rating" style="width:140px"> <div class='wtrButtonContainer wtrSignedOut' id='2_book_38633526'> <div class='wtrUp wtrLeft'> <form action="/shelf/add_to_shelf" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post"><input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="✓" /><input type="hidden" name="authenticity_token" value="HUI1d2q6nARuSVUM00aSwRf17/HyWhBGOciYvSGEBOFW86Tj3Gk7kTHWV8mgAc5nUVyI4plap4T5/LyX+xV+pA==" /> <input type="hidden" name="book_id" id="book_id" value="38633526" /> <input type="hidden" name="name" id="name" value="to-read" /> <input type="hidden" name="unique_id" id="unique_id" value="2_book_38633526" /> <input type="hidden" name="wtr_new" id="wtr_new" value="true" /> <input type="hidden" name="from_choice" id="from_choice" value="false" /> <input type="hidden" name="from_home_module" id="from_home_module" value="false" /> <input type="hidden" name="ref" id="ref" value="" class="wtrLeftUpRef" /> <input type="hidden" name="existing_review" id="existing_review" value="false" class="wtrExisting" /> <input type="hidden" name="page_url" id="page_url" /> <button class='wtrToRead' type='submit'> <span class='progressTrigger'>Want to Read</span> <span class='progressIndicator'>saving…</span> </button> </form> </div> <div class='wtrRight wtrUp'> <form class="hiddenShelfForm" action="/shelf/add_to_shelf" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post"><input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="✓" /><input type="hidden" name="authenticity_token" value="Im+Jm+3m9ISeylM3wCs0Dz9tht9oxfMjpQNDdT2n975p3hgPWzVTEcFVUfKzbGipecThzAPFROFlN2df5zaN+w==" /> <input type="hidden" name="unique_id" id="unique_id" value="2_book_38633526" /> <input type="hidden" name="book_id" id="book_id" value="38633526" /> <input type="hidden" name="a" id="a" /> <input type="hidden" name="name" id="name" /> <input type="hidden" name="from_choice" id="from_choice" value="false" /> <input type="hidden" name="from_home_module" id="from_home_module" value="false" /> <input type="hidden" name="page_url" id="page_url" /> </form> <button class='wtrShelfButton'></button> </div> <div class='ratingStars wtrRating'> <div class='starsErrorTooltip hidden'> Error rating book. 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