Lilly Alone

My rating ****

In this book a bit that I liked was when Baxter [ Lilly's little brother ] says that he should be the boss so Lilly says yes and then Baxter says stuff that makes no sense and then gets annoyed and starts getting scared. I bit that I didn't like was when Bliss [ Lilly's little sister and twin with Baxter ] really badly hurts herself and has to be taken to hospital. I feel sorry for Lilly because she is the oldest and she sometimes feels little but she has to be brave  and take care of her little sisters and brother. The author of this book is called Jaqueline WIlson and she writes heart warming and sad stories which touch your heart and sometimes I cry. The Genre of this book is drama because there is so much happening and so much drama and dilemas. This book is really about a family with no dad and there mum goes to spain with a man and leaves Lilly and Bliss and Baxter and Pixie home alone. There is troubles along the way and finally the worst thing imaginable happens and then everything is alright. I highly recommend this book.

Scorpia Rising

My rating *****

This book is the last and final one of the Alex Rider series. It is scary yet not to scary. Alex is absolutely sure that his spy days are over and that MI6 are finally leaving him alone and that is partly true. Unfortunately Alex has a tendancy to run into trouble and MI6 have nothing to do with it for now anyway. Alex is chased and shot at. This backfires on the enemy and hits them face on. MI6 have no evidence and they are wondering why clues came so quickly to them. Alex is sent half way across the world. Alex discovers weird and wonderful secrets as well as some secrets you don't need to know right now. This story might seem quite short but trust me there is so much action that you will not be bored at any stage in this book. One of the main characters in this book is Jack Starbright and she is Alex's legal gaurdian [since his uncle died]. She is one of the only people he can trust and that knows he is a spy outside of the MI6 walls. She is very important to Alex and he loves her as one of his family. She has beautiful long blonde hair and brown eyes. She is not much of a cook but still manages authentic and deicious food for Alex when he is around...Jack is the only person Alex really feels comfortable discussing his spy life with. In the outside world. In this book I liked the part where Alex kicked some butt. Ididn't like what happened to Jack Starbright. I highly recommend this book if you liked the first eight.

Crocodile Tears

My rating *****

This book is Alex's eighth adventure and the most adventures yet. Alex is on vacation with his best friend Sabina Pleasure when the trouble starts. He is invited to a new years eve party hosted by Desmond McCain. This is all set in Scotland. Of course there is snow and the roads are slippery. Sabina's mum is sick and does not join them. Alexs wins an amazing amount of money and gives it to charity. Alex is in deep trouble and can't survive much longer than this. Alex's discovers more problems when he comes back to England and returns to school. He turns to MI6 for help and they will help but of course Alex has to do something for them or they will not help. Conseqeuntly Alex has a school trip to Greenfields a place were scientist produce plants and insert chemicals into the plants, so that they grow better. MI6 have a few questions that they would like to know about the boss of Greenfields and Alex is once again perfect for the job. He is equipted with a pencil case that contains blow up pens, a memory stick inside an eraser as well as a calculator that's useful for lots of reasons. Alex is spotted and taken to Africa. This is  were Alex must use his brain and not rely on his gadgets all the time. Alex is faced with guns, crocodiles, ostrich meat[ for dinner] and Desmond McCain. Alex learns a horrible secret and is determined to fix it. There is somebody else on the land that can help Alex. He has helped him so many times before. This secret will perhaps kill millions and Alex has a day to fix it. Woth the help of this mysterious person. Can Alex save the day again? In this book I liked the part where Alex is playing a betting game and wins against Desmond McCain the champion. Desmond is utterly emmbarresed to be beaten by a 14 year old. You probaly should not make an enemy of Desmond McCain. I did not like the part where Alex was shaved and had drugs pumped into him for a long time. I love this book and recommend it highly.

Snakehead

My rating *****

Alex finds him self in the land of Australia on holiday and is sucked into another mission but this time for ASIS, the Australian Secret Service. He is told his godfather Ash will be there and they will be disguised as father and son. They must look like Afghan refugees and Alex must act poor and he would not have been to school so he can not talk and he has to act stupid and careless. He is meant to be just like a prop for Ash and he is not meant to do anything. Alex ventures into South Asia, the world of Snakehead, the illegal organisation. They transport refugees from country to country on a shipping boat that is meant to ship toys and other products, but the container actually contains refugees who want to start a new life in Australia.

Alex is taken from Ash by a man who is suspicious that Alex is not an Afghan refugee. He is taken to a boxing match were he is to fight the champion and Alex actually cheats and beats him. There is a power cut and Alex escapes only to be shot at and after all that he survives. Ash gets the visa and passport that they need to get to Australia again. Ash goes out looking for info and Alex is told to go home and stay there until Ash comes back. Instead Alex decides to follow the fat guy who has been following Alex everywhere from the airport to the wrestling match. Alex then discovers that MI6 have followed Alex to Bangkok and have been keeping him safe. Alex gets tools from his favourite person Smither,s the jolly fat MI6 agent. He is given a pack of gum with exploding coins concealed in the wrapper, a belt with a knife and a lot of other small useful things, as well as a watch with a tracking system. He does not know it, but his trainers have a tracking device in them and they are battery powered. Faced with an old enemy and troubled by the his past, Alex has no one to trust and nowhere to go. He is stuck in a container and a two day journey to Darwin, Australia. He decides to escape and the coin helps him break free. His real troubles arise when he calls his godfather and he is tricked by Yu Winston, the man behind everything. Alex is flown to the middle of the jungle and he has no idea were he is until Yu explains everything to him. Alex is to die slowly and painfully. First his eyes are to be removed and sold to hospitalls who need eyes, then his fingers and toes are to be sold as well, his ears also, next his kidneys. He will still be alive at this stage, then his elbows and knees, soon after his lungs, brain, heart, spine and ribs. He will be killed painfully and slowly. They will keep him alive as long as possible. His blood will sell for a million a litre so they are really going to make some money.

I highly recommend this book for people who like adventure.

Ark Angel

My rating *****

After Alex's last mission he is put in a ward and is carefully looked after. He has a operation after being shot by a sniper. The shot barely missed his heart and Alex was extremely lucky. Unfortunately the boy in the next ward is suffering from appendicitis and is the son of a very rich man and he is very well known. Alex is determinded to leave his spying days behind him but of course MI6 are not happy to let him be and niether are the baddies. Alex is captured and is left in a cell in a building that is for rent. The baddies Kasper and his gang of four are sure that Alex is not really Alex and is the son of Nikolei Drevin. However, that is the boy next door to Alex, Vladimar. So the gang find Alex useful and leave him in a burnng building. Of course Alex is clever and finds a way out.

Nikolei Drevin is very worried and invites Alex to spend some time with him and his son Paul. Of course it is all a set up and Paul has no idea how dangerous his father really is. Nikolei had the idea of the first space hotel and he immediately starts building. The space hotel starts costing more and more money and then Nikolei decided to destroy it. However,  it would destroy most of Washington. That is where Alex's legal guardian Jack Starbright is, who is the only human being who really understands him. So, Alex can not let this operation continue. Alex is determined and there is another agent on the island were the spaceship carrying the bomb is. Paul has no idea about his father and when Alex tells him he does not believe him and is shot.

This book made me feel very sad when Paul found out about his father and a bit like I wanted to go and help Alex figure out the obvious. My favourite character was Alex bacause he was strong and never gave up and as the day that the bomb was to be blown up wore on, he got more worried. This gave  him strength to drive him on and finally defeat Nikolei Drevin, Kasper and his gang once and for all. I highly recommend this book.

Scorpia

My rating *****

Alex is determinded to stay away from MI6 but he is pulled straight back in when he has a school trip to Venice. There is of course some mission in Venice and Alex will do it perfectly. He sneaks into a party and is seen by Nile, a body gaurd of Mrs Rothman. He is locked in a room and is near-drowned and somehow he survives. While Mrs Rothman is busy asking questions, Alex is shown a video of how his father died. It showed Mrs Jones the MI6 agent shooting his father. It showed the good side killing their best and most efficent agent. MI6 had told Alex he had died in a plane accident. Of course the video was not real, it was all a plan and John Rider (Alex's father) did actually die in a plane accident. Alex was never told this and Mrs Rothman turned Alex's point of view so Alex joined Scorpia. Of course he didn't belong there and he couldn't shoot anybody. Alex could not believe that his father had been a ruthless assassin. Alex soon gets to talk to MI6 and learns it was all a set up. Alex was confused and then he decided that Julia Rothman needed to go and that is when he got her killed. I really highly recommend this book to all readers who like death and destruction as well as a puzzling story.

Eagle Strike

My rating*****

In this book Alex is in the South of France relaxing with his friend Sabina Pleasure and her family. Alex is finally able to feel normal again and not be on a mission. Unluckily some people decide that it would be a good idea to blow up the house. They do so, injuring Mr Edward Pleasure and the house. The holiday ends there and Alex needs to know who was behind the attack. Finally he finds out that it was a man by the name of Yassen Gregovich. Yassen is a paid assassin and he was paid by Damian Cray to attack the Pleasures and the aim was to kill Edward and Alex because Edward was writng a book about Damian. Damian was not happy about that. Damian had just built a new game that actually got the human who was playing to be inside the game. Alex was the first human to try it and he hated it. He was really suspicious of Damian after that. Alex was really silly and thought he should go to Damian's house. At the house Alex was put in a life size version of the game. He is really put to the test. There are giant snakes and a fire pit with a horrible creature as well as booby traps everywhere and no way out without dying. It is a close call and Alex is put to the test.

My favourite part in this book was when Alex was having a coke on the beach and his friend Sabina was talking and he was more interested in her then a fat guy who was loading explosives onto a boat which was captained by Yasssen Gregovich himself. I highly recommend this book and series. You don't have to read this series in order, although you should because you do get a better understanding.

Skeleton Key

My rating *****

I chose this book because it is the next book in the Alex Rider series and I am in love with these books. When I finished Point Blanc (the one before this book) I wasted no time in downloading this book on my Kindle and reading it. I loved the part where Alex was almost killed by a grinding machine in a run down flour factory and he got so close and then he was saved. It all happened so quickly I was worried that Alex wouldn't survive, but of course he did and he was just a little confused over what had just happened.

This book was a little sad because the agents whom Alex went with both died and they were both innocent. I forgot to mention that Alex was on Skeleton Key Island when all this happened. He was sent with the other agents and they were meant to be his parents (really they were not his real parents). His real parents died in a plane that was blown up on purpose by the baddies. I liked this book because it was full of sudden turns and things just kind of popped up and Alex had to do a lot of things all by himself even though he was meant to be on vacation and the other two agents were meant to do everything but of course Alex ended up doing everything.

Point Blanc

My rating *****

This book made me feel like I wanted to become a spy and help Alex Rider. In this book Alex is sent to an academy on a mountain in France. It is called Point Blanc and Alex is disguised as a person called Alex Friend, the son of a very rich man who is sending his son to Point Blanc because he needs help mentally. Really David Friend the rich man knows whats happening and is only pretending. When Alex is at Point Blanc he discovers a horrible secret. The principal Dr Grief and his second in line Miss Stellenbosch are up to no good. They are planning to take over the world! How? Well, they were making second models of all the boys at Point Blanc academy and then replacing them. Alex was the last to be copied and that gave him time to realise what was happening around him. He has to escape but of course there is only one way out and that is down the huge mountain and that is almost impossible. But Alex's friend Tom helps him and suggests taking a snow board down and Alex does exactly that except with the lid of a coffin. In the end he makes it and is safe with only a few broken bones to add to his collection. He is equipped with tools which are again provided by Smithers. He gets an earring that explodes as the man he is disguised as has his ear pierced, as well as a book with a dart in th spine which he uses very stupidly and without thinking, a necklace that is a tracking system so MI6 can help him out  but they never come, and a map of Point Blanc. I highly recommend this book.

Stormbreaker

 

My rating *****

I really loved this book because it is so nerve wrecking and yet so obvious that everything will be all right. The main character is Alex Rider and he is a normal teenage boy, or so he thinks. When his Uncle dies he is left with his house sitter Jack Starbright and he is told his dad was a international spy and so was his uncle. Alex was pulled head first into the MI6 spy world and he was so useful to MI6. In this book he was sent to spy on Herod Sayle a rich man with a bad temper towards humans. Alex had so many encounters with a huge deadly jellyfish (a single tough and you're dead type of jellyfish) as well as guns and qaud bikes. Alex is very brave and he is very encouraging. He is equipped with gadgets from Smithers (Smithers also works for MI6). The tools he gets are a game boy with a tracking system and multiple uses as well as zit cream which really can blow a hole in anything (this tool is extremely useful in the jellyfish tank). He is also given some little explosives. I highly recommend this book if you like scary and nerve wrecking books. This is the first book in a series of nine books. This is the best series I have ever read and I have read a lot of books.

The Twig Trilogy

My rating ****

I enjoyed reading this book and I couldn't stop reading as it was so entrancing. It was all about a boy who thought he didn't belong and he was searching for his real life outside of the forest were he lived. He was on his way to his Uncle's house, well really it was his fake Uncle, when he strayed from the path which you must never do in the forest and that is when his real adventures began. He met loads of cool friends and stayed in weird places and in the end his dream came true and he finally belonged. This is a very heart warming story and it is very well written. I also loved the illustrations in the book and the way the pictures made you feel something very strongly. I highly recommend this book to people who love to read like me and don't mind a long book. There are three books in this series and you have to read them in order and if you don't read all three you won't understand the story fully. You need patience to enjoy the book otherwise it won't be fun and reading is meant to be fun. The main character is Twig, the boy on the front cover.

Apology

Dear Fans,

I am sorry that I have not posted my book reviews for a few months. Life got busy you know how it is. From today I will be posting a review on every book I read. Or at least I'll try to :)

Just to catch you all up I will quickly list some of the books I've read and recommend. I have read a lot but these are my top picks. Happy reading!