Author: Anthony Horowitz
Rating 3/4 stars
Background:
A young teenager boy named Alex Rider is recruited into MI6. MI6 assign him to go and investigate the deaths of billionaires that each have a son attending Point Blank, an academy in the French Alps. He goes there but is drugged at dinner time. He friends another student at the academy named James Sprintz. James says that the acedemy has something wrong with it because everyone who attends was rebellious and is now calm and controlled.
The components that are good about this book are a good plot, interesting, and the book and main characters are exiting. The plot is good because, the story flows together and makes sense. The author does a good job going from the MI6 training facility to the academy Point Blank. It is exiting because, it has a lot of action and you're always trying to anticipate what will happen next. The main characters are always doing ridiculous things, like taking a snowmobile off a ramp and ramming it into a helicopter and coming out alive. I thought that made this book really cool. The story is full of mystery and excitement.
The components that are bad in this book are an unrealistic characters, and main characters don't injure. The characters (except the "bad guy") don't suffer any serious injuries, which I found really unrealistic. For example, when Alex drove the snowmobile into the helicopter, he landed fine and ran away. I also think that some of the characters are really strange and have weak backgrounds. The book doesn't go into much detail about the "bad guys" and their history. In this story the "bad guy" plastic surgeon he has no background.
You would like this book if you are a boy because the main character is a boy. You would also like it if you like books with a lot of action in it because this book is loaded with action. You would like this book if you like a spy books becaus ethe main character is a spy. Finally, you would like reading this book because it has a series of books written by the same author that follows this book.
