Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24155619-20140711014702/@comment-25399914-20141205194136

I've heard of Accel World but never read it.

I think of Reki Kawahara as writing a fairly common kind of wish fulfilment - loner boy gets all the girls, saves the day, becomes great hero. He's decent at what he does as his work is easy to read and memorable.

I don't deny that there are vastly better authors like George R. R. Martin, J. R. R. Tolkien, Douglass Adams and Kōshun Takami (I could spend a long time on this list) but Reki Kawahara is good for when you're not in the mood for anything too complex.