Shop Ireland

Stormbreaker (Alex Rider) by: Anthony Horowitz

More Product Details...

Review Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next »

Click here to add a review!

Average rating -

Rating: - A GOOD BOOK BUT A TAD UNREALISIC

I have enjoyed all the books in the alex rider series and i like this book very much. I find the humor fuuny and unlike some of the sences in some of the cherub books it is sutiabal for all ages. My main critisisum of the Alex Rider series is that he does things that are unrealisic of a 14 year old kid with a BMX. Overall a good series but if above the age of 12 i would strongly recommend the cherub books instead as i find they are much more realisic.

Rating: - A parent's review (contains plot spoilers)

I am coming late to the Alex Rider series as my oldest son is only seven. This is the second Alex Rider book that I've read, for the purpose of understanding when my spy-obsessed son might be old enough to start reading the series.

I enjoyed reading this book. It obviously lacks the complexity and depth of a book written for adults, but it is still a fast paced and enjoyable thriller that borrows heavily on the James Bond and Mission Impossible franchises. Alex Rider makes a likeable hero who is brave, tenacious and resourceful.

I would feel comfortable giving it to my son to read when he's a little older - my gut feel is 9-10 years would be about right. He still needs to strengthen his reading skills (words like interrogation, hyperventilating, cloying, claustrophobic and exquisite are typical), but also to develop the maturity to cope with a plot that involves a fair amount of violence (the book opens with the death of Alex's uncle and bad guys get shot on a regular basis).

Here are some things that parents may like to know about this book:
- The storyline is reasonably simple and the bad guy/good guy lines are clearly drawn.
- Violence is not described in overly graphic detail, but it does occur throughout the book. Alex fires a gun twice and hits a bad guy on one occasion. He also causes the death of another villain by causing a plane crash.
- There is no swearing or bad language.
- There is a noticeable absence of positive female characters (unless you count the housekeeper who barely appears). There is a reference by the MI5 into female agents being of use if you need someone to slip in as a secretary or receptionist.

Rating: - Severely disappointed... James Bond this is not.

My friend and I share many tastes in books, J.K. Rowling, Philip Pullman, Jim Butcher, etc, so when she recommended this to me, I was excited. A lot of hype about the film also made the book seem like a good one, but sadly, this was NOT the case.

Personally, as someone who loves James Bond and action-packed books, I was disheartened by this book and its sequels. This was one of the very rare series that I gave up on, I got to Skeleton Key and wondered why I was doing this to myself.

Alex Rider is frankly boring, and completely unbelievable, he wants to get into his uncle's office so he climbs out the window of a 15-odd storey flat and jumps for a flagpole? Come on, give us some credit. He seems to know everything there is to know about EVERYTHING, surfing, what to do in a shark attack, speaks 4 or so languages, blah blah blah.

Altogether, this is the best book of a bad bunch.

Rating: - Stormbreaker

This is a great book so . I think it is a great action thriller .

My favourite character : Alex Rider . I feel sorry for him as he is an orphan and is asuper spy 14 year old . He reminds me of a James Bond but younger .

Nothing is going well for young Alex Rider . First losing his parents .Now hearing about his uncles tragic death . At his uncles funeralhe gets suspicious about his uncles work . He then sees someone taking his uncles car and follows them to the scrap yard where he manages to stay alive when the machine scraps his uncles car . He takes on all the men . Alan Blunt knows he is ready .Alan Blunt tells Alex that his uncle worked for the M.I.6 not a bank .He had to train with the special forcea . Alan Blunt then tells Alex about his mission . He was told to spy on sayle who had launched a computer worldwide . It was called Stormbreaker . Alex disguised himself as a boy named Kevin who would be the first to test it out . sayle gives him a tour of hhouse and then he tests the computer . Alex sees what materials are used for the stormbreaker . Meanwhile Sayles assistant Nadia Voles pays the housemaid Jack Starbright a visit and it isnt for a nicechat . Alex then fiinds out who killed his unce yassen greogavich. HE then gets captured by Sayle . Sayle visits London for the launch of Stormbreaker . Is alex too late to stop him?

Rating: - Stormbreaker is a wicked book, with a film version just as good

Yes - Stormbreaker is the opening edition of the Alex Rider series, and so far the only book they have made a film of, but nevertheless it's one amazing read - and watch.

Alex Rider, who thinks he's just a normal teenager - discovers his uncle was once an MI6 spy and he's riled about it. He discovers that his hobbies, holidayplaces and sports were all his TRAINING!

Discover loads of characters, and descriptions about them.
Stormbreaker is an amazing first read.

Review Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next »