At some point, I stopped reading them

There are many light novels I followed until the end. There are also still a lot of light novels that I still follow to this day. But there’s quite a bit of the series that I simply stopped reading at some points.

One such series is That Time I’m Reincarnated As A slime. I’m unable to finish both the WN and LN. I simply lost interest past the arc where Hinata and Chloe doing time leaping shenanigan.

Another series is Shield Hero. This one I managed to finish the WN despite the awful translations, but the LN is so long I felt like it overstayed its welcome too much.I'm already thinking “WHY ARE WE STILL HERE?” on Q'ten Lo’s arc. And when we go back and forth between “another world” and fighting those world destroying invaders. I just “NAH” it at some point, I even stopped midway through volume 19 of the LN.

Maybe already reading the WN has done something to my brain. But, hey. I also read all the chapters of the Mushoku Tensei WN. So there must be something else making me just no longer care about Shield Hero.

Next is Overlord. I stopped reading it at volume 14. After they destroyed the Re-Estize Kingdom for good. I can no longer get behind Ainz.

All this time, I can enjoy it because I’m interested in how he can maintain some semblance of humanity when he lives among evil monsters. And also because the author's writing is good. He even managed to convince me to read through the life of lizard people. But after he throws away his last remnant of his past self and fully commits to supporting his current comrades (which are all evil except Sebas).

I am no longer able to read through. When the part that interests me is gone, the only one left is hate that has been held by the other parts. Yes. I hate all of them, I wanted them all to just die and suffer in hell. And obviously, with that kind of feeling toward the main characters, reading a story that glorifies them and making them keep winning is hard.

Man, I’m so weak.

Next one is Youjo Senki.

I still haven’t picked up the book again after discovering that the Empire has no actual plan.

The plot so far has always been “Just one more victory and they can end the war”. I can go through so many disastrous campaigns because I trust the imperial government is full of competent people who can do their job properly.

Yes, I’m so invested in the story I started to think like I'm a part of the army fighting the war when reading it.

But, after the latest decisive battle we won after so many sacrifices. The shithead bureaucrats botched the peace talk while the military despite their failures was never able to get off their high horse.

Our economy, our industrial capacity, our manpower are all on the brink of total annihilation. Not only that, our transportation network is strained and stretched so thin they are barely working. The academy too is now resorting to sending untrained recruits because we simply have neither time nor enough people anymore.

We could not eat, drink, or sleep. Still, the war is not over.

Seeking a decisive victory, which is nothing more than the postponement of the end is foolish. But the bad news is, that’s our only choice.

Now that the peace talk has been botched beyond measure. The only way we can end this madness is by defeating everyone, that is. Defeat the whole world. Too bad, when you are fighting against the world there’s only one outcome.

You lose.

Hopelessness and despair.

I’m so invested in the story that I feel those two feelings when reading the book. And the bad news is, I don’t like any of those feelings. So even today, I am still unable to continue.

Once again, I hate my weakness.

And talking about hopelessness. We arrived at the Arifureta Zero. It was a prequel series of Arifureta that tells stories about the Liberator.

It was a prequel, so I already know the ending which made me unable to pick the last volume in fear of getting sad. How could I not?

After all their hard work, what awaited them and all the liberators were a bunch of bad endings. Got defeated by the false god, their organization got disbanded, they got persecuted and killed en masse. Forcing them to bet on miracles that may or may not come in the future.

Death and destruction is what awaited them at the end of their journey. Their death and destruction.

My weak heart can not take it.

Some other series I abandon midway are So I’m Spider, I think I abandoned it after a few one or two volumes after White swallows the world destroying bomb and becomes god. I remember the reveal that she’s not actually reincarnated as a spider too, and actually really spider. For some reason I just lost interest in it.

Lastly, By the grace of God and Fran.

I’m sorry author, but I’m getting bored of your stories. By the grace of gods, It has too much nothing and Fran keeps meandering around and around and around. There’s a saying that what's important is the journey, not the destination.

But in this case. I’m tired of the journey. Slice of life nothing can work, but By the grace of God’s author’s way of writing made things boring. While Fran, while I liked cute girls being badass. I need more than that. At some points, the new volume felt like they existed simply because it still sells.

At some point I may pick them up again. But I’m not sure when, or even ever.