A review by pixi_reads
Accel World, Vol. 1 (light novel): Kuroyukihime's Return by Reki Kawahara

4.0

I realized in reading this, the Accel in the title is likely short for Accelerated. There is an interesting virtual world some of the characters can travel to which accelerates your brain waves. You battle other players and start with a set amount of points. If you loose a battle your points are transferred to the other player. Once you've lost all your points, the program uninstalls from the devise and can not be installed ever again.

We follow a high school student, who...I'm just going to leave it as, is not in the best of shape physically speaking. However, he is great mentally and is sought out by a girl on the student council for this acceleration world. She needs his help to find out who a person is from the acceleration world, in the real world since they have figured out who she is and are trying to assassinate her.

The character tracking her down ends up being someone I never saw as this person, but once revealed it totally makes sense. I liked how it all kind of works out for the characters and now need to get the next volume so I can continue reading.