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Snakehead (Alex Rider)

Author: Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

38 reviews
Sales Rank: 2810

Media: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.5 x 1.7

ISBN: 1406309354
EAN: 9781406309355
ASIN: 1406309354

Publication Date: October 31, 2007
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4 out of 5 stars

A great book not as good as the first July 10, 2008
I am a fan, but this was not as good as the first book. Its abit like Cody Banks.
However it is still a great read, I am an adult and I enjoy these fast pace books. All the Alex Rider, Cody Banks, Young James Bond and Jason Steed books have been fast and great reading.
I dont know why they call them Young Adult, they are great for all ages.
My top 5 would have to be
1) Fledgling Jason Steed.
2) Blood Fever, Young James Bond.
3) Alex Rider, Strombreaker.
4) Agent Cody Banks.
6) Double or Die, Young James Bond.

4 out of 5 stars

another descriptive and fast paced Rider novel July 6, 2008
Alex Rider returns for another action packed adventure where he drops down on Australian land and is recruited by the ASIS to go undercover in a snakehead, which will ultimately bring him back to an old deadly enemy.

In the 7th instalment of the acclaimed series, Horowitz again uses a brilliant depth and accurate view of the world through researching all of the elements to be used in his novel, which has to be admired, and through this, do readers get a great description of what is happening and a very descriptive approach to the novel.

This research conforms brilliantly to what Horowitz has chosen Rider to do this time, in exploring boats, Australia, science, bombs plus other meaningful and wonderful things that are all well developed and executed by one of the best children's fiction writers of recent years.

Though not as intriguing as the first couple of novels, Snakehead packs a deadly bite into the Alex Rider story with a very dramatic twist on Alex's personal life, by including Alex's godfather, who is an intriguing character to read about from start to finish.

Again Alex is put in a do or die situation at many points and a high authority blackmails him in a way to get him to do a job. Horowitz again writes with a sense of purpose, and an inevitability that is gripping and is almost impossible to put the book down when a major event is happening.

The book conforms to the genre brilliantly, with chases, fights, helicopters and guns etc, the typical conventions of the action genre. And as usual, here is a question of the realistic outcomes of situations but even so are deadly exciting and edge of your seat reading with a great central lead.

This is perhaps a more emotional book than the others with Alex growing up and higher stakes than usual and the other Rider books have more intensity but regardless it is an action packed adventure and the stakes are once again, raised to a great extreme with Horowitz's pin point accuracy.

8/10

4 out of 5 stars

A good exciting story but ... May 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I found this an exciting book but was let down by the OTT ending.
The slow-burn start was great and more realistic than throwing Alex into a near death experience on page 1.
The middle was fast pasted and well plotted.
However the end was just too rushed and over the top for me.
I know it's only fiction and you need action for an action novel, but if has to be made reasonably believable to make fiction into great fiction.

3 out of 5 stars

Not as good as the other Alex Rider books May 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

My favourite books are the Alex Rider books like this one and the Jimmy Coates books by Joe Craig.
I started reading Alex Rider books because my brother used to like them as well and I have enjoyed them a lot so far. I started with the first one Stormbreaker. They are full of action and you just don't know what is going to happen next.
I would definitely recommend this book but only if you have already read Stormbreaker and the other Alex Rider books.
This one is number 7 that I have read and in my opinion it is not as good as the other books. There is too much talking and too many things in the story that are obvious like who is going to betray Alex Rider and other twists like that which are unsurprising. In my opinion the Alex Riders books are still amazing but maybe now the Jimmy Coates books are better.

5 out of 5 stars

the best of the series May 6, 2008
I have loved all the alex rider, books, but this has been my favourite. Once i started reading, i couldn't put it down. It keeps you guessing until the end, and gives you a few surprises along the way