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Stormbreaker (Alex Rider) by: Anthony Horowitz

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Rating: - Better than the film

Alex Rider, accidental teenage spy after his guardian is killed. Alex goes on to save the UK from being taken over by an evil American. No details of the plot but it's James Bond for a teenage market and none the worse for it.

This book is a very good read for teenagers. The language is kept fairly simple and most 12-13 year olds should be able to handle it pretty well (or even some more advanced slightly younger readers).

Well worth it. Once read, you'll want the rest of the series.

Rating: - Alex Rider Storm breaker

Better than the film. A little far fetched when he takes on adults and wins, everytime. But overall once of the best books I have read in a while. This is a great start to the series.

Rating: - Great for getting boys to read

My 10 year old is not big on reading at all. I bought him this book and the DVD as I thought we'd try watching the film so he had some images in his head before he started the book. Seems to have worked a treat, he's now reading another in the serise at school.

Rating: - Well.. I didn't expect a masterpeice. (minor spoilers)

I must admit, I enjoyed reading this book, but I can't see myself reading it again or recommending it to anyone over 11.

The characters are very bland and forseeable at times, and unfortunately the hardest character to relate to is Alex. For me, this is because he's just too perfect, and the way his qualities are introduced make it worse. For example; Alex is the tender age of 14, shocked, bleeding and in the process of a daring escape when a man attempts to stop him, Horowitz chooses this moment to imform me that Alex has been a dab hand at karate since the even tenderer age of 6, Alex then easily knocks out the man using a wounded leg. How handy.

It turns out that Alex also is extremely intelligent for his age, "already built like an athlete", heedless of his only known relative's death and has the ability to escape every doom thrown at him thanks to uncanny luck. Never too young to die? In the case of this book I sincerely doubt that tagline.

Aside from the reluctant and annoying hero with a fixation in getting into and outof tricky situations there's Alan Blunt: an acceptable character indeed, but I don't think I'm supposed to like him, 'Mrs Jones': Alan Blunt's slightly less heartless sidekick, who needs to add more dimensions to her personality, Herod Sale: annoyingly fake as a real person, much like 'Mr Grin' who elegedly changed his name because of a horrendous accident invoving knives in the circus*, Yassen Gregorovich: an assassin, quite 2D but a strong evil character that most definately will return, and other varied yet dull as dishwater blackgaurds and familiars.

*very believable.................

The plot:

Very simple yet quite creative, bearing in mind this is first and foremost a book directed at young boys with dreams of being exactly the same as Alex. Piles of cliffhangers (that have the desired effect), and few twists (after expecting the unexpected I was proved wrong).

Great for ambitious schoolboys I'm sure, but merely a flat source of entertainment for anyone else.

2.5/5

Note/edit: I'm enjoying the next books none the less, although he keeps not dying >:[. 3.25/5

Rating: - a brilliant present for 8-11 child

this is a brilliant book it has great graphics espiecily for readers of the alex rider books also now point blanc graphic movie book which is out now.Also its a very good book for perhaps 8-10 year olds

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