Cliff hanging, chest pounding. These are a few words to
describe the dramatic ‘Stormbreaker’ book by Anthony Horowitz. In P4 we have
been reading this exhilarating novel .
Stormbreaker is about an average 14 year old boy, Alex Rider
that lives in suburban London with a pretty average normal life. However, his
parents are dead and he lives with his rather antisocial, sort of boring
fitness frantic Uncle Ian Rider. Alex knows karate, being an expert. Tables
turned one early morning when police arrive and his Uncle on a trip around Europe
for his drab job as a banker, but Alex discovers that his uncle is dead and is
much more than a lousy banker. Ian Rider was a spy for Britain’s MI6. Alex goes
to his Uncles funeral, still not knowing the truth, and notices to much things don’t
go together. Something fishy is going on. When he finds out the truth via the
suspicious actions of his fellow work mates, Alex gets hired by MI6 to go on
the same daring mission his uncle took on and died. Alex gets sent to Sayle
Enterprises, Port Tallon to investigate into the suspicious Herod Sayle and his
diabolical new invention.
My favourite part was when Alex was going for a walk from the
factory to the town, and Sayles sidekick, Mr Grin, hires two people to kill him
on the luscious walk. Alex hears roars of engines and it turns out to be two
assassins on quads, with cheese wire between them. I really thought he was going to die in that
part, but he uses his trusty karate skills to defeat these people. I like it
when he fools one of the people on the bikes to go straight into the electric fence
and plunges to his death over the craggy cliffs of the Cornish coast.
I highly recommend this book and series if you enjoy action
stories, or even if you like the cherub series. This book does have its ups and
its downs, however it always keeps you amused the whole few hundred pages.
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