I read the book "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz. I really liked this book. The plot, characters, and setting all meshed to make for a fantastic story.The plot starts out with Alex, the main character, finding out his uncle whom he is lives with, has died. Alex was told that his uncle died in a car accident because he wasn't wearing his seat belt. He knew that his uncle was more careful, so he went to the junkyard to find his uncle's car. It had various bullet holes in it. Junkyard security caught Alex, and a special operations team had to tell Alex the truth. Alex wanted to help the Op team, they were curious of an invention made by Herod Sayles. After months of training, Alex was sent to live with Sayles undercover, to test his invention called "The Stormbreaker." Alex found the clue that his uncle left for him before he died. Alex finds out he and his uncle are/were on the same mission. Alex got caught snooping around Sayles house, Sayles and his gang were going to beat Alex up for information. Alex found out that Sayles infected the Stormbreakers with Smallpox so once everyone had a Stormbreaker, they would be infected and later on die. Sayles admits that he is doing this because he was always bullied for being a less wealthy kid than others. When Sayles is about to leave to go deliver the Stormbreakers, Sayles gang tortures Alex. They put Alex in a big fishtank with a jellyfish inside of it. Alex then remembers the special equipment the Op unit gave him to break through metal. The whole tank explodes, Alex gets to a car to contact the Op unit. Once he tells the Op unit Sayles plan, the Op unit stops Sayles before he could deliver the Stormbreakers. Alex is the main character of the book. Alex is a fifteen year old boy that is very determined to find out how his uncle really died. In school, Alex really isn't a very popular kid. Alex is very clever, he can make up inventions with bare materials. Sayles is a very mean individual. He attempts to kill a bunch of innocent kids just because of what his childhood was like. Sayles is a short chubby thirty year old man. He was not a very popular kid in school either. He was bullied a lot. Ian Rider,(Alex's Uncle), is a man that would like everyone to be treated equal. He is really nice, and treats everyone great, no matter how they treat him. He is the definition of a great person. Alex lives in London, but Sayles is stationed in Port Tallion. The story takes place in the current era. There are scenes in Alex's house, the junkyard, and Port Tallion.I would recommend this book because it is full of action, and keeps you on the edge of your seat. This is a book that will keep you reading. I would recommend this book to mature middle schoolers, or older because of the bit of violence. This is a great book that anyone will enjoy.
Alex Rider Stormbreaker is written by Anthony Horowitz is a fictional book about a teenager sent under cover for the MI6 agency. Alex was now 16 and had recently lost both of his parents in a plane and was now living with his uncle Ian Rider. Alex awoke to sirens one night and found out that his uncle was now dead and was told he was killed in a car crash. Ian Rider was a banker but Alex had soon figured out that his uncle was not being completely truthful to him. Alex starts to do some digging into the mystery death of his uncle and discovered that he was murdered and had worked for the MI6 and was not a banker after all. The man that had Ian killed was Herod Sayle and he is a multimillionaire that was working on something that could kill millions of people. Alex Rider is recruited by the MI6 to go on an undercover mission to find out what Herod was working on. Alex goes through many weeks of training for this assignment and goes undercover as the prize winner to be the first person to test the first stormbreaker computer. When Alex arrives to Sayle Enterprises to investigate what Herod is doing he is caught sneaking around and is captured. While he is held captive Herod leaves to go to London to see his master plan unravel. When Alex finally escapes he hurries to London to stop Herod. I think this was an overall good book, it really made me feel what it was like to be an undercover agent. It was a well written book but i feel it was meant for a younger audience from ages ten to thirteen perhaps. In my opinion its was an overall easy book to read it doesn’t take too much to understand what was going on in scene it was in. I think that they should have made the character a little older than fourteen years old. In my opinion no fourteen year old could stop a terrorist the way that Alex did in this book. My overall positive response to this book was very good with its descriptions with the settings and feelings of the character. I will say this is still a really good book but only for people that are in to action and adventure. I would recommend this to middle school guys mostly because the whole book is based around a guys point of view and most girls won’t understand what Alex is thinking in some situations. I do think the ending was a little lazy but I understand why he did what he did with the ending because it raised suspense for the second book.
What do You think about Stormbreaker (2004)?
Alex Rider and Jason Steed are my favorite books. and Alex Rider Stormbreaker is the first book in the Alex rider series. It is a little different to the movie, I think better, but the actor who played Alex Rider (Also called Alex in real life) was very good and he is how I imagine Alex when I read the rest of the series.Imagine James bond as a kid and that's Alex Rider, his parents are dead and he lives with his uncle and house keeper, then his uncle gets killed, Alex gets drawn into the world os espionage (Thats not an easy word to spell). lolThis is the first time I read the Alex Rider series. My friend recommended it to me. It is one of the best series I have ever read, because there is non stop action, never a dull moment and last but not least almost each seen is really intense. I would recommend this book to people that like action and suspense.Stormbreaker introduces us to Alex Rider. He is 14 years old. The first part of the series is about the death of Alex's Uncle, Ian Rider. The police say he died in a car accident. but when Alex goes to the car dump he discovers that he did not die in a car accident, he was shot with a machine gun through the car window! He also finds out that his uncle was not a banker he was a secret agent. The teller at the window took Alex under the bank to the offices of MI6, the secret spy agency Uncle Ian worked for. Alex was hired by the owner of the agency and his task was to complete his uncle's last mission, to go to London and find Yassen, the evil villain who wanted to become prime minister at any cost.The ending of Stormbreaker really makes me want to read the next book in the series, Point Blank
—Juan Santiago
This book is fiction and the main character is Alex Rider who is a fourteen year old boy who is very fit and living a good life in London. The conflict is external because a lot of fighting happens in this book. At the very start of the book, Alex finds out that his uncle just died in a car accident and didn’t wear his seatbelt. Alex doesn’t believe this because Ian Rider always wore his seatbelt. Later Alex sees bullet shots in the car window which proves that Ian Rider was shot to death. After that Alex goes down to Ian’s office to talk to some people about his will. While he is there, he looks around and finds out that Ian was never an accountant, but he was really a spy. Alex is forced to continue Ian’s mission. The mission is called “Stormbreaker” so Alex goes down to Sayle’s Enterprises. A Stormbreaker is a new computer that is being made, but he knows that something is wrong about those computers. After tons of trouble and almost near death Alex finds out that the computers had poison in them and you would die when you turn them on. I chose this book because a lot of people said it was the best book they ever read, and to me it was the best book I’ve read. Also the written is great, I couldn’t put the book down because the action grows bigger and bigger. I liked the book because Alex keeps getting into trouble but always finds a way out. For example Alex is trapped in a tank with a huge fish that wants to eat him so Alex uses his Zit Crème, which is really a lotion that destroys any metal in seconds, on the bottom of the cage and the glass opens and he gets out. I connected the character to me because we are both fourteen years old.Words: 298
—Charlie
So, i was quite excited when i found out there was a book. I loved the movie, so of course i had to read the book.Well, i can say i didn't got disappointed.The book was fine, but it's not like it was horrifying, or filled with big emotions. Everything in it was all happening quite fast, and we almost never got Alex opinion on anything. The writing-work and stuff was alright too, but there were some sentences and terms, where i would have used some other words. But perhaps it was because i read the translated edition, and not the original book, so i won't put that on the author; He couldn't know his words would sound so stupid in Danish.But it's not like i hated this book. Not at all.It's a great plot and a fine story. I enjoyed it, and i'll definitely keep reading it, because i have faith in this book. I believe that the next books will build up his existence, his life and perhaps we will get some more feelings from him.
—Rose
