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I've been on a roll with spy stories so thought I'd get to this one that has been in my tbr for some time. Fun story about a 14 year old recruited by MI6. Lots of action, and a character you can like.

It didn‘t have much action. It was the characters talking at a table. Not what I was expecting.

#MiddleGradeMonday
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I had no idea Horowitz created this series for young adults. According to Wikipedia, “Alex Rider is a series of spy novels by the English author Anthony Horowitz. The novels revolve around a teenaged spy named Alex Rider and are primarily aimed towards young adults. The series currently comprises 14 novels, as well as six graphic novels, seven short stories, and a supplementary book.“

I'll have to check these out!

There are similarities to Silverfin, Higson‘s James bond book, and that made a few parts more predictable, but there were parts later on that were more original. I liked it, but I wouldn‘t say it was by favorite. It‘s pg13 rating violence. The other parts of the series are really complicated with in between books. If I would continue the series, I wouldn‘t know which one to read next.

They said his Uncle Ian died in a car accident. Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's car confirm the truth. But nothing can prepare him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for Britain's top secret intelligence agency. Enlisted to find his uncle's killers and complete Ian's mission, Alex suddenly finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, with no way out.
#paintbynumber

First book finished for #20in4.
Another very good book written by Anthony Horowitz. At points you have to suspend belief with a teenage spy but this was well set up. Really enjoyed the storyline and the writing style. An excellent YA fiction and I look forward to continuing with the series. #SeriesLove2023 @TheSpineView

“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning it‘s never good news.”

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Starting the #20in4 Readathon reading StormBreaker for #OffYourShelf2023, hence the old looking cover 😂 Also has a couple of pages falling out! Think picked this up free many years ago. @Tove_Reads

First book in the Alex Rider Series #SeriesLove2023 @TheSpineView

@eggs #wonderouswednesday

Scatterbrained, neurotic, ever-shifting, chaotic mood reader, noted from all the different books this community has seen me quote from, as well as no documented reviews yet.

A great story in one of my favourite book series, I went back and read the full series again after the tv show came out last year. As good as I remember

Written 20 years ago (in 2000) about a free computer roll out for schools. Back then (remember?) the Internet was a bit clunkier compared to now and technology has come on in leaps and bounds so the ‘advanced‘ features seem every-day when reading it now. So it does still work, to some extent.

Physalia physalis (Portuguese man-o‘-war)

‘I love to kill fish,‘ Sayle went on. But when I saw this specimen of Physalia physalis, I knew I had to capture it and keep it. You see, it reminds me of myself.‘
‘It‘s ninety-nine percent water. It has no brain, no guts and no anus.‘ Alex had dredged up the facts from somewhere and spoken them before he knew what he was doing.

{umm ... oops} 😲

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Out of the books I had delivered to my Grandchildren yesterday my Grandson has decided to read Stormbreaker first. He's only ten but appears to like books for young adults rather than those in his own age group.

I‘m almost 40% through this book and it‘s really good so far. It‘s fast paced and Alex is snarky and fun. It‘s a book I think I should have read as a kid but never got around to it. Would really recommend the Alex Rider tv series as well. The narrator of the audiobook has a great repertoire of voices and accents.

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The new series of Alex Rider launched on Amazon Prime in the UK today. I‘m hoping it‘s better than the film! Has anyone started it yet?
I really want them to have done justice to the books.

Have any Littens read this Alex Rider series and would you recommend it for a 12 year old? I am hesitant after reading a librarian review in Goodreads and The Common Sense Media review.

Still not digging this, but trying to finish it anyway for a student I mentor. I‘ll make him read two more chapters and I think he‘ll start enjoying it after?

Reading for work, for one of the kids I mentor, and not loving it but he seemed to enjoy it so I‘m determined to finish it by next time I see him.

I thought this series was done. It has had multiple covers. It changed at cover one from Top right to the left cover. And I believe it was last year we got book 11 which switched styles to the botto. Right cover.

This is one of those YA series that grows with the reader so book one and maybe book 2 are okay, but as you get further in the series they become #notappropriatefor middle grade

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#coverchanges

Adored these books growing up (though I seem to have misplaced one). I'll admit it was only recently when a friend pointed it out to me, that I realised the pun in Sabina Pleasure's name though 🙈

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This is probably the third or fourth time that I have read this book over the years. I'm finally making an effort to complete it (I think that I got to book 5/6 the last time)
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It's a really good opening book for the series - and it is very action-packed

Full of gadgets, man eating squids, and odd characters; Alex Rider is James Bond for kids. This series will appeal to boys who like video games and action movies. With 14 books in the series, it could keep a boy occupied for months!
670 Lexile, Ages 10+

I'm not into spy books. At all. It was okay, but too juvenile in conjunction with being a genre that I don't favor.

Other people had been here before him. There were a few crumpled beer cans and old potato chip packets on the floor and the usual graffiti on the wall. JRH WAS HERE. NICK LOVES CASS. Visitors leaving the worst parts of themselves behind in fluorescent paint.

#onthenightstand. I loved these books as a kid. Definetly need to reread them in the summerbreak.

"Lots of people are bullied at school--" Quote chosen by 8th grade student Alex B.

Read for my Read to Reel library challenge. It was ok.

There are not many spy novels on my shelves, but I do have this selection of books from the Alex Rider series in my class library.

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#MsDsLibrary

That awkward moment that you realize the book you're reading that's set in England was written by an American who obviously didn't do enough research or even spent much time in the motherland. The story line was good, but there were so many discrepancies that it was almost difficult to read

My excellent #bookhaul from this week includes the first of the Alex Rider books. It's been years since I read this series and I'm looking forward to getting back into it!