May 13, 2022, 12:21 PM

@robd said in Hate on what you Love. Let's air our grievances.:

I'm a spider, so what. Book 1 was great, but then... yeah... there are way too many people featuring in this series. Entire books are about side characters. The story line isn't even linear in time and often I'm guessing what timeline the book is taking place?!
The timeline of the books are chaos, utter chaos.
I buy every new book just hoping I can finally read how it ends!
Book 11 is a whole book about the hero side character, and it was quite boring.
Book 12 was pretty good, though, even if it was only side characters. It was like many small stories and it was nice.
Book 13... well... was enjoyable, I guess... nothing really memorable though. Again, it ends with no end in sight, with a teaser of all things... after 13 chapters it ends with a teaser!! Maybe that's why I forgot the story.
I think this series has gone completely off the rails and every book I hope it's the last chapter because it goes back and forth in time and... where does it all end? The problem is, that the author puts hints about the end in one book, and then jumps back in time in the next book. The number of teasers is astronomical and is off-putting in its own right. The character is nice, though, so I'm still following the series, but... it requires patience!

Much as I enjoy So I'm a Spider... I do kinda agree with you, the order in which those stories are told is often baffling.

It's not even that I think the side content is bad, but... for it to really work, Shun's side of the Battle of the Elf Village really can't be half a dozen books before Kumoko's, and we needed to spend all that time with Julius before the first timeline covers his death, not 9 books after.