SSR Book Reveiw

Title: Sword Art Online: Gun Gale Online Squad Jam
Author: Keiichi Sigawa
Genre: Fiction
# of Pages: 294

In this light novel, the protagonist, Karen, is living her normal life in Japan in the year 2026. Karen struggles with her appearance by being a tall young adult and is being uncomfortable whenever she goes out in the real world. She had this idea to become a completely new image by the help of MMOVR(Massively Multiplayer Online Virtual Reality) gaming and would like to choose a game where she can be a small girl in another world. After many attempts trying to find the right VR game of her character resembling a small girl, she has found the perfect game that she wishes her character to be and naming her, "Llenn". When exploring game, she realizes that the game called "Gun Gale Online' is based off of a Dystopian future including battlefields, wars, and Battle Royale, but Karen wasn't bothered by the fact and only cared about her little girl character. After going through tutorial and designing her character, she was prepared to freely play the game who its meant to, including fighting monsters and play against other players with  military/ futuristic weapons. One day, she meet a mysterious women named Pitohui, surprisingly finding Karen out in the desert and become friendly towards her as she seem special to her. Karen and Pitohui became friends and as they get along, Pitohui decided to ask her to join her team for battle royale tournament known as "Squad Jam"...

I really liked the light novel as I relate to the main protagonist of wanting to create my own character image to something I believe is presentable to others. The main character was pretty energetic and motivated to do anything that comes across from her and has set her own goals throughout the novel. The major plot later on in the story were not predictable and I wouldn't even think of it myself. Side characters during the whole story were interesting with their little background and gives more development to the main character.