I recommend my book, SCORPIA, to read. It has a great plot, a great combination of character vs. character and character vs. self, a couple of similes, a suspenseful setting, and some good foreshadowing.As I mentioned earlier, this book has a great plot. It has several twists and turns, including a cliffhanger at the end. The main plot of this book, however is Alex trying to find out more about his father. He joins a terrorist organization his father worked for. He is sent to kill an agent for the spy agency he had worked for. “He let the hatred take him. And fired.” (244) Anthony Horowitz. There, he learns of their plan to murder thousands of people. You have to read the book to see if he stops it in time. “You may know more than you think. Right now, you are all that stands between SCORPIA and an unimaginable bloodbath.” (256) Anthony Horowitz. This book also a great character vs. character and character vs. self combo. This is because throughout the book he changes as he learns about his father and also battles the terrorists in the end. What he thinks about his father is that he was an assassin. “He was a killer. Do you know how many people he murdered?” (247) Anthony Horowitz. So, later in the book, after finding out the truth he finally understands about himself and his father. “His father hadn’t been an evil man. He had been the exact opposite.” (378) Anthony HorowitzAnthony Horowitz is a good author, so he slipped some similes and metaphors into this book. I will show you an example of each. The metaphor is “you are already dead.” (326) Anthony Horowitz. The simile in the book is “fast as a snake.” (163) Anthony Horowitz.. I think these are good examples of each.The setting of this book was important too. It was suspenseful and had good detail. “The room was a blank white box, designed to intimidate. (246) Anthony Horowitz. It also had good detail the suspenseful moments in the book. “Alex listened as the two men argued, neither one really listening to what the other had to say. So this is how the government worked! It was incredible. Nobody seemed to know what to do. (265) Anthony Horowitz. The setting was important in this book, which is one of the reasons it is so good.This book also has some good foreshadowing. That’s how the author was able to keep me hooked. Like this example, “sometimes, unfortunately, killing people is what we have to do. That was what she said. This was what she meant.” (255) Anthony Horowitz. This example provides some of the suspense for the book. Another example is “ I am afraid that a great many people are about to die in London.” (322) Anthony Horowitz.So, to recap, I recommend this book to read because it has a great plot, a good combo of character vs. character and character vs. self, some similes and metaphors, a great setting, and a suspenseful setting.Horowitz, Anthony. SCORPIA. New York, Penguin, 2004. Print.By:Ryan Guay
After reading several reviews I notice that at the beginning of the novel “Scorpia” by Anthony Horowitz, the reader does get glued to the book. I found myself continuously telling myself “five more minutes till I go to sleep.” But as the book progressed I was slowly convincing myself that the book was not up to my level and something that I could have been reading in grade 6. tHorowitz starts the book off really well. He immediately introduces the conflict in the novel. The antagonists are all in one room about to start a conference. Horowitz describes the meeting using a simile. “It was clear that the people who congregated in this place came from many different parts of the world, but they had one thing in common; a stillness, a coldness even that made the room as cheerful as a morgue. (2)” I found the use of this simile very affective as it placed a clear image in my mind of what is occurring. This is the only thing that I liked, being able to picture everything extremely well. But there was a time where I disliked the description. tWhile reading the novel I really thought I was able to predict what was going to occur next on a regular basis. For example when Alex was in Europe looking for SCORPIA, I just knew somehow the most unpredictable thing will happen and somehow Alex will find it. And sure enough it happened. “And that was when Alex saw it, a flash of silver as the sun reflected of something on the edge of his vision. He turned his head. There was nothing. A canal leading the other way. Another canal crossing it. A single motor cruiser sliding underneath a bridge. (29)” It happens too many times in one novel.Another thing I despised is how Alex’s work seems way too easy and highly unlikely. His ability to continuously find himself in near death experiences and somehow figure a very un-probable way out is to familiar and reoccurring in the novel. I especially disliked the time where Alex was trapped in the room which floods and somehow gets through the crevasses of the floor and escapes. This was the time where I disliked the large amount of description. The reader knew Alex would get out of the situation, it was too early for him to be killed or something, yet it took like 10 pages for him to get out of it. Now I am not a lazy reader but I think the “suspense” of that scene was unnecessarily long. Overall the book can be addicting but I really think that it is aimed at children rather than teens.
What do You think about Scorpia (2006)?
Scorpia, the fifth book in the Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series, is a pivotal turning point for Alex. Faced with newly found knowledge of his father's past as an assassin, Alex is roped into working with the powerful terrorist organization Scorpia. But through this work Alex uncovers Scorpia's current plot, to result in the deaths of thousands of people.This book is an exciting must-read for the Alex Rider fan. Scorpia is Horowitz's most gritty book in the series yet, and is also the beginning of Alex defining himself as a person. As usual, the book is filled with good action scenes and dialogue.
—Bridget Lane
This book is a really fascinating book for teenagers that want to read a high action and spy book. This book is mainly about Alex Rider working as a spy for the CIA is trying to find out more clues on who killed his father. Then the CIA's rivals Scorpia try to get Alex Rider by telling him that the CIA killed his father. So then Alex Rider turns against the CIA but in the end he reunites with them. This book's genre is nonfiction and was written by Anthony Horowitz. I highly recommend boys or g
—MarceloGuerra
Well all i can say is that this is by far my favorite Alex Rider Book in the series, jam packed full of action and suspense twists and turns, It would make an awesome movie. Geoffrey Wrights Stormbraker is too camp it's needs a Batman Begins/Dark Knight treatment. The reason i say that is because the Daniel Craig 007 Bond films are heavily influenced by Christoper Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy and that is the reason they are so such better than the older Bond films. I think this novel is great because it's Dark like a Christopher Nolan Batman movie but it's a book, and they are different Mediums. Anyway enough of that, this book is worth a read it got me back into reading, because reading can be long tedious and unforgiving which makes it lose it's appeal to younger Children and Teens. Anthony Horowitz understands this problem and knows how to solve it and he has done it with Alex Rider. I even had the privilage of meeting him in person in 2006 and he's polite lovely man and because of that i like him even more. Go give this a read. ;)
—James Eardley
