Sunday, January 24, 2010

Point Blank, Skeleton Key, Eagle Strike, Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz


The next four books after Stormbreaker in the Alex Rider series are just as good as the first but honestly don't get any better. Point Blank and Skeleton Key are pretty much repetitions of Stormbreaker and it gets pretty redundant. The same story: saving the world, almost dying, a crazy lunatic. It is always the same thing. Eagle Strike and Scorpia change it up just a little bit more with some twists that doesn't always have to do with saving the world but more about Alex Rider's past. I guess the books are good for it's demographic, 14 year old teenage boys. But trust me, I will not be reading the other two books in the series.... I don't think I can handle another saving the world, dying, and working for M16 unwillingly plot all over again.