So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. 16 (light novel) (So I'm a Spider, So What? (light novel))

I'm afraid to finish it as i know there is no next one coming.

Perfect series

Most of the book was fine if spread very thin. Everyone got screen time, a small bit of time in the limelight, even the main character who was barely in this book. The final book. The titular character, was barely in it.We read this series because the main character was insane and an utter joy to try and fathom just how thier brain works. So naturally they get barely any screen time and to make up for it we get blue balled hard numerous times.~~~~~~~~~Spoiler warning from here. Also a rant warning.Remember those 2.5 books that were shameless cashgrabs to retell Julius' story and introduce an ominous god slaying sword? Red herring.White vs Black? Off screen for most of it with a cop out conclusion.World quest to save the world where a god or half of humanity dies? Ex machina'd.That last one is all the more annoying because White had a workable plan to yield the best results. This was teased and would have been a much more exciting resolution than what we got. Instead we got a brawl with D and a literal ex machina to end the fight and solve it all with basically no losses. You just can't set up this world shattering event over several books to just hand wave it away.A touching moment between White and the Demon lord and the puppet spiders? A couple of sentences and a wave good bye. Would it have killed them to let us have a nice little moment for White to have with basically the only person she cared about besides herself? (Also no Oka/White interaction, pretend there was never a connection there as that's how this plays out...).So, stories ended, and there's 2 chapters to go? must be an epilogue to show how the world panned out after the quest.Bullet points. Each character gets a sentence. Half of which are "No one knows what happened to them/They walked off into the sunset". If you are going to last minute add an epilogue this way, you might as well not bother, the readers imagination would do a better job by far and be less insulting.Oh White gets an actual epilogue? Oh she's a slave now, out avatar of freedom and chaos is now just a slave to the whims of D.The author admits to being majorly burned out by all this, so I can only assume the publishers are to blame for rushing them.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Conclusion: Read it just to finish the series, but you will be disappointed. It was ok at best.I give the series a 7.5/10. I give this book 5/10. This series really lost it's way in the latter third.

Most of the book was interesting, jumping between perspectives and having them gradually intersect. It's all very convenient for the ending, but I guess that's part of the style of this story.There's not nearly enough of White for my liking. And when the ending finally happens, and you hope for a good and satisfying conclusion, it basically ends with a quiet fart.I'm not particularly bothered about the events of the ending, and all the Deus ex Machina required to get there. But I am feeling very let down by how little time and effort is spent on the finale and the epilogue. We came to know so many characters and yet after everything is over, we got single sentence summaries of each's epilogue, many of which were "disappeared/unknown". Very very unsatisfying. Felt really called in, like the last 5% of the book was written in 5 minutes.Overall, leaves a sour taste. If you want to know the ending, you'll probably get the same out of just reading a wiki summary.