Sword Art Online 8
Early and Late

Volume 8, titled "Early and Late", is a collection of three short stories, similar to Volume 2. The individual stories are so different to each other that it's kind of hard to rate the volume as a whole. I've given it four stars because I wasn't a huge fan of Caliber - but that may be because I've al......more

To be honest the anime sort of spoiled the first story and most of the second one, with that in mind I couldn’t really appreciate the first one, the second one is also in the anime (second season) but it goes so fast there that I could read and appreciate this second one I loved the Norse Mythology......more

I really wish more people would read the light novels. In this volume it's a collection of short stories, featuring the incident from Kirito and Asuna's time in the game of death; SAO and the Excalibur episodes after Kirito saves Asuna in Alfhiem Online. The final story features a story taken back t......more

Unfortunately this volume didn't gel with me how I wanted it to. I was really excited to read the first short story, but I couldn't connect with it. I kept thinking I needed to sit down and commit to at least an hour of reading, but I could never push past 15 minutes of reading. I was bored. I think......more

3.75⭐ ‘It wasn't about dying or living. There was no way for me to "earn" a real understanding of death here to begin with. Because in the real world, a place where death was just as permanent as here, I'd never been close enough to death to know. No, it was the fact that this was an alternate world.......more