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title: "Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad (light novel) Kindle Edition"
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# Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad (light novel) Kindle Edition

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- **What is this?** Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad (light novel) Kindle Edition by reki kawahara
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## Customer Reviews

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    An interesting series
  

*by C***O on Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2015*

A first note of warning: if you are looking for the manga, then this is not it. This is a light novel, which is a book that will sporadically have illustrations throughout the text. It's the inspiration for the manga and anime of the same name, which in itself should be reason enough to read it, but I know that not everyone likes light novels over manga.I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I didn't really know what to expect with this since the hype train for all things SAO is pretty loud and almost impossible to miss if you look up anime and manga items on the Internet. I'd been somewhat hesitant to start this series since it's fairly long and has a substantial fan base. It might sound hipster-ish of me, but I've had multiple instances where I've picked up an incredibly popular series... and just failed to get what all the hoopla was about. I'm sure that some of you have experienced this as well.I'm glad to say that this series is pretty easy to get into and better yet, the first book is self-contained and while the series does continue (the next book is a collection of stories), it's a nice safe entry point for the series. If you don't like it enough to want to continue, you can always stop here. I think that's part of why I enjoyed this volume so much- it got fairly straight to the point with things, especially the inevitable romance between our very good looking main characters. It does gloss over the game a little, but part of the beauty here is that the game is pretty standard RPG stuff and most won't really miss the lack of detail unless you are completely new to gaming as a whole.I'd definitely recommend this and it's a good all audiences type of work, as both teens and adults would get into this quite easily. I would recommend this for teens or mature younger children as there is a bit of violence in the work and there are some slight references to sexuality. It's nowhere near as bad as some of the other series out there, so I'd set this for teens starting around fourteen.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good Start
  

*by T***S on Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2021*

Over a decade old at this point and almost two on some counts, Sword Art Online v1 remains a trailblazer in the VRMMO genre and one that other series can and should still look to for how to get things done. Still, there are faults or shortcomings for SAO that other series or rather writers ought to learn from to make themselves better. Reki Kawahara, in my opinion, has learned from his mistakes in his other series (Accel World).SAO hits the familiar notes with the basic foundations of a growing VRMMO environment. Written before the MMO scene took off, Kawahara was impressed with the future potential of the genre. There is a bit of detail or information dumping at times that shows how excited he is about this and how he tries to explain it, however, I think, in some ways, it could have been cut or avoided as it comes across as clunky. Speaking of clunky, I found that the attempts at telling a story going through the genre was a bit chunky. I would have rather a more straightforward path with the backstories incorporated sequentially instead of being informationally dumped in tiny chunks in the present. The story would have been more emotional suspenseful if say Sachi and the real life friends club was told at the start and not in a backstory with Asuna over some romantic dinner.And romance, while it was nice after some suspenseful or traumatic experience, felt a little goofy, silly, hard to believe. Again this could have been solved by introducing the Asuna stumbling across Kirito scene as happen chronologically instead of in some backstory told to another character. One more thing, some of the romance descriptions were goofy (plugging lips as kissing? Describing her skin as tight as an animal’s? is that romantic?)Regardless, it is a good series and though it has these faults that do take me out of the story, I did enjoy it and the suspenseful solo vs team, survival vs game, moments throughout.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great Light Novel!!:) Highly Recommend!!:)
  

*by E***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2018*

I am beginning to love this Light Novel a lot!! I began with the Accel World: Kuroyukihime Returns Novel and finished years ago(ignoring SAO..) What have I missed!! I’m not quite done with the first Aincrad novel yet and have 2 more to go, plus trying to wait and finish Accel World Books 2-5!! The SAO Novel is more in depth than the anime in my take of it. I love the words just jumping off the page!! Once I finish this book and books 2-3, I’ll plan to purchase the rest of the series!! Great novel!!:)

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