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!

Midnight

My rating ***

The book was about a girl called Violet who has a complicated life. She has a brother Will and a love for Casper Dream, an author who writes about fairies. She meets a new friend Jasmine who falls in love with Will and kisses him. Violet runs away and meets Casper Dream for real. She then goes home. To her surprise she finds out that Jasmine wanted to be her friend, not just because she liked Will. She also discovers that she had a real brother called William who had died as a tiny baby. Then her mum adopted Will to try and replace her missing son. Violet's grandma let the story loose  about Will being adopted.

I think this book is really a three sided story. One side is Violet's, one side is Casper Dream's and one side is Violet's family. My favourite character was Jasmine because she was rich but not a mean show-off like some other rich people. She also smells like jasmine flowers and I love jasmine scent.

One part I didn't like was when Will put Jasmine in an attic which had loads of weird bats in them

Third Year at Malory Towers

My rating ***

This book is the third book in the series. It was about Darrell who comes back to Malory Towers and meets the new girls. Their names are Bill, Zerelda and Mavis.

The book was exciting, funny and tragic because it had a lot of activities going on. The tragic bit was that Bill's horse Thunder had colic. Bill and Darrell were up really late trying to enable the horse to lie down so that it wouldn't die.

My favourite character was Bill because she was crazily in love with her horse. She never thought about anything else but him.

The Silver Brumby

My rating *** 1/2

This book is about a mare called Belbel and she had a foal called Thowra for the wind. Her best friend also had a foal on the same day called Storm. They had  journeyed away from the herd to have their foals and then had a long journey back with their young foals.

I liked the part where Thowra rescued Golden from the men. Golden is a golden mare who shines in the winter snow.

I really liked this book because of the way it was written. It was written in the way where sometimes it was from the horses' point of view and sometimes from the men's point of view. It was very interesting to read two sides of the same story.

Ronia, the Robber's Daughter

My rating: ****

This book is orginally in Swedish and it has been translated into English. It is a very daring and brave book.
It is about a girl called Ronia and she loves going into the forest. One day she meets a boy called Birk. My favourite part of this book was when the "rumpenisse" started talking to Ronia and kept saying "why?".
I have watched this movie in Swedish, and I really liked reading the book.