Book: Point Blanc
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Rating: 7.9/10
recommended age: 12+
This is the second book of the Alex rider series by Anthony Horowitz.
In this book reluctant teenage spy Alex Rider is drawn into another mission for MI6 after getting arrested for dropping barge filled with 2 drug dealers and their drug plant into a police conference hall about how they were winning the war on drugs,which is a good bit of ironic humour at the start.
So MI6 need him to infiltrate a school in the french alps for troubled kids of rich and powerful parents, to do this he must spend a few days living with David Friend and his family(Friend being a rich supermarket owner). But Fiona Friend takes a instant dislike to Alex and the disruption to her easter holidays and whilst he's there her and her friends shoot at him with shot gun, taunt him and almost get him and Fiona run over by a train. it is only Alex's quick thinking that saves them. Then right at the end of his stay Alex has to shoot her with a tranquiliser dart to stop her telling the assistant director of the school the truth.
Now alone and with one of his gadgets used already he must enter the eerie school and find out just what's happening. With only 7 kids, over 30 armed gaurds and 2 floors out of bounds Alex is going to have his work cut out finding info and when he does it will amaze and disgust him.
sending out a rescue signal to MI6 he gets captured and looks set to die and where are MI6. he realises he must break out and ski down a mountain a night before the principle kills him in his sick experiment.
Then lead in a SAS team to rescue the kids and stop the plan working.
Will he make it?,Where are MI6? and what's happenig to the kids at the school?
Read this book to find out
This is one of my favourite books of the series with all the twists and turns, the action and mystery and Alexs struggle against a madman makes this a thrilling read and I would recommened this books and the series to most people. it's hard ot give a good opinion with out ruining the story but the suspense and ingenutity in the story is just great.
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Tuesday, 5 April 2011
BOOK REVIEW: Stormbreaker(Anthony Horowitz)
Book: Stormbreaker
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Rating: 7/10
recommended age: 10 - 16/17- this book isn't too violent or graphical although their is fights and one or two occasions of people getting shot, there's no bad language but some language in the book is complicated so I would hesitate giving it to a younger child
This is the very first book of Horowitz's"Alex Rider" series of books.
Alex Rider is just a normal teenager living in London with an uncle who works for a bank and his house keeper Jack ,he goes ot school and his life is fine. But when the doorbell rings at 3 in the morning it's never good news...
His uncle Ian Rider has been found dead in a car accident,he wasn't wearing his seatbelt, so sorry.
But Alex knows his uncle was a careful man and the no seatbelt doesn't quite fit. Then at the funeral attended by people he has never even met before from the bank , Mr Crawley a man from personnel, Mr Blunt with eyes as hard as steel the supposed head of the bank and then a man with a gun hidden in a holster, what normal bank workers carry guns?
Little did Alex know his whole view of his uncle is about to change.
Called into the bank the next day he discoverers something remarkable there is no royal and general bank, it's a front for MI6. His uncle was a spy!
But now MI6 show a nastier side, blackmailing Alex to accept a part on the mission that got his uncle killed ,investigating Heord Sayle a apparent do gooder who wishes to repay Britain by gifting every school a new state of the art computer, this seems to good to be true and as Alex is about to find out their is a mad and sinister plot in Sayle enterprises,one that could destroy Britain for generations to come.
alone and armed with a few gadgets and 11 days training Alex is against the odds to find out what's happening, why his uncle died and how to stop a madman form killing every child in Britain...
This book is a very gripping and thrilling read and once you've started it's hard to put down. The book has a near perfect mix of action and mystery and who doesn't enjoy books about spy's and secret missions?
add the fact his just a kid mean you've got the making of a good book and a brilliant series.
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Author: Anthony Horowitz
Rating: 7/10
recommended age: 10 - 16/17- this book isn't too violent or graphical although their is fights and one or two occasions of people getting shot, there's no bad language but some language in the book is complicated so I would hesitate giving it to a younger child
This is the very first book of Horowitz's"Alex Rider" series of books.
Alex Rider is just a normal teenager living in London with an uncle who works for a bank and his house keeper Jack ,he goes ot school and his life is fine. But when the doorbell rings at 3 in the morning it's never good news...
His uncle Ian Rider has been found dead in a car accident,he wasn't wearing his seatbelt, so sorry.
But Alex knows his uncle was a careful man and the no seatbelt doesn't quite fit. Then at the funeral attended by people he has never even met before from the bank , Mr Crawley a man from personnel, Mr Blunt with eyes as hard as steel the supposed head of the bank and then a man with a gun hidden in a holster, what normal bank workers carry guns?
Little did Alex know his whole view of his uncle is about to change.
Called into the bank the next day he discoverers something remarkable there is no royal and general bank, it's a front for MI6. His uncle was a spy!
But now MI6 show a nastier side, blackmailing Alex to accept a part on the mission that got his uncle killed ,investigating Heord Sayle a apparent do gooder who wishes to repay Britain by gifting every school a new state of the art computer, this seems to good to be true and as Alex is about to find out their is a mad and sinister plot in Sayle enterprises,one that could destroy Britain for generations to come.
alone and armed with a few gadgets and 11 days training Alex is against the odds to find out what's happening, why his uncle died and how to stop a madman form killing every child in Britain...
This book is a very gripping and thrilling read and once you've started it's hard to put down. The book has a near perfect mix of action and mystery and who doesn't enjoy books about spy's and secret missions?
add the fact his just a kid mean you've got the making of a good book and a brilliant series.
Hope you found this review helpful,
The Devonian Reviewer
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