So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. 1

A classroom full of students, and their teacher, die when a mysterious rift opens up in the ceiling. One of the students is reincarnated as a little spider who's just been born, and from very early on her life is full of danger, death... and leveling up. As one might expect from the title, the spider......more

As Isekai light novels go, this one is pretty generic. It's only gimmick is that the protagonist is a spider monster rather than a human, but it goes through basically the exact same progression as you might expect. You know how after Twilight got big, there were a whole bunch of copycat series popp......more

I first read So I'm a Spider, So What? years ago as a machine translated web novel, and I really really liked it, so finding out the light novel was licensed was pretty exciting. Basically, the plot of vol 1, a classroom of students die and get reincarnated in a fantasy world. We follow the story......more

Yet another book in with the theme of being reborn in another world as something unusual. In this case, a girl being reincarnated as a spider. It seemed pretty generic to a degree when I picked this up, but my wife enjoyed it, so I figured I would give it a read. And boy oh boy, I loved it. Sure, a......more

My favorite fantasy monsters are giant spiders -- Shelob, It, the black widow from the Shrinking Man (which is only relatively gigantic, I admit), they're all awesome. So how can I pass up a series told from the POV of a giant spider? I can't.......more