Skeleton Key (Alex Rider Adventure) by Anthony Horowitz
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Book Reviews of Skeleton Key (Alex Rider Adventure)
Book Review: Skeleton Key: Another Alex Rider Page-turner OR Fluke?
Summary: 5 Stars
Alex could have never guessed that his uncle, now dead, was a spy for the British intelligence agency, MI6. He also never noticed his uncle was training him to take his place. He took Alex diving in the Bahamas, and made him take high-level martial arts classes. These were all parts of his `training'. That's Alex's story. The third book in the Alex Rider series, Skeleton Key, by best-selling author Anthony Horowitz is another real page-turner.
In his third adventure, Alex gets sent out of the country by MI6, the spy agency he works for. This is due to a Chinese gang trying to kill him. When I read that section of the book, I was thrilled as to why he angered them into trying to kill him. Anyway, he goes to America to meet two CIA and help them on their own mission, which is to investigate someone. They get killed by the man they are investigating, General Alexi Sarov, and Alex is captured by him. This is yet another exciting part. General Sarov, a retired Russian general, has a grudge against the world due to the death of his son. He sees a little of his son in Alex, and wishes to make Alex his new son. Alex hates Sarov for capturing him, and does not want to be his son. What a conflict!
This book kept me on the edge of my seat, wondering how Alex would try to escape Sarov next. It is a great addition to the Alex Rider series. Complete with a climatic and surprising ending, you won't want to stop reading. With ten being the highest, I give this book a ten out of ten. I would recommend reading the first two books, Stormbreaker, and, Point Blank, before this. Even though it is a great book, Skeleton Key is part of a series.
Book Review: Skeleton Key: Another Alex Rider Page-turner OR Fluke?
Summary: 5 Stars
Alex could have never guessed that his uncle, now dead, was a spy for the British intelligence agency, MI6. He also never noticed his uncle was training him to take his place. He took Alex diving in the Bahamas, and made him take high-level martial arts classes. These were all parts of his `training'. That's Alex's story. The third book in the Alex Rider series, Skeleton Key, by best-selling author Anthony Horowitz is another real page-turner.
In his third adventure, Alex gets sent out of the country by MI6, the spy agency he works for. This is due to a Chinese gang trying to kill him. When I read that section of the book, I was thrilled as to why he angered them into trying to kill him. Anyway, he goes to America to meet two CIA and help them on their own mission, which is to investigate someone. They get killed by the man they are investigating, General Alexi Sarov, and Alex is captured by him. This is yet another exciting part. General Sarov, a retired Russian general, has a grudge against the world due to the death of his son. He sees a little of his son in Alex, and wishes to make Alex his new son. Alex hates Sarov for capturing him, and does not want to be his son. What a conflict!
This book kept me on the edge of my seat, wondering how Alex would try to escape Sarov next. It is a great addition to the Alex Rider series. Complete with a climatic and surprising ending, you won't want to stop reading. With ten being the highest, I give this book a ten out of ten. I would recommend reading the first two books, Stormbreaker, and, Point Blank, before this. Even though it is a great book, Skeleton Key is part of a series.
Book Review: Amazing Teenage Spy: Alex Rider
Summary: 5 Stars
Alex Rider is in trouble again when he barely survives a surfing accident! A Chinese gang member tried running Alex over in a jet ski while Alex was surfing "the cribber". Alex arrives at MI6 Headquarters while recovering from the wipe out. The head of operations approaches him and notifies Alex that he must do a surveillance mission on a Cuban island called Skeleton Key, which is the name of the third book. Alex learns horrifying news that must get back to MI6 in Great Britain and the CIA in the USA, but his CIA "parents" are dead and he has no transportation off of the island. The author, Anthony Horowitz, has really captured me into the non-stop action of Alex Rider.
Anthony Horowitz really has a way of writing with thrilling and suspenseful transitions. For example, in the third book, Alex comes head to head with a great white shark and must fight mono e mono. The shark finds himself in a cave that collapses on it. Afterward, Alex awakens limp, and he can't move anything but his mouth and eyes. He lay still on a conveyor belt that leads into a sugar mill. Alex could be flattened like a pancake, enduring a slow and painful death. If that isn't suspension or thrilling, I don't know what is!
This third book of the Alex Rider series is doused with action packed adventure and caked with suspension, making it impossible to put the book down! In conclusion, Anthony Horowitz's way of writing about this teenage boy spy is amazing.
Book Review: Best book in Alex Rider series
Summary: 5 Stars
Skeleton Key is about a fourteen-year-old spy named Alex Rider. Alex works for MI6. It is a spy company in London, England. He is really useful to MI6 because he is young and no one would suspect a fourteen-year-old as being a spy. Alex is a very brave and adventurous boy. He is sent on another mission to stop a Russian General, Alexei Sarov. Alex usually works for MI6 in London, but in Skeleton Key he is sent to help the CIA in America. Two CIA agents and and Alex go to Skeleton Key, an island right near Cuba. This is where Sarov lives. All three of them are supposed to look like a family just enjoying themselves on vacation. The CIA is suspicious about Sarov and believes he has a nuclear bomb. Sarov wanted to use this bomb to conquer the world. Read the rest of the book to find out all about the action and adventures that Alex Rider experiences in trying to capture this evil man. This book was great because of all the action that is has. It keeps your attention and is hard to put down. This is the third book in the Alex Rider series and I think that this book was the best!Book Review: Skeleton Key
Summary: 5 Stars
The reason I love the Alex Rider series is because of the adventures in the book, that this great author Anthony Horowitz puts real-life events, like the great tennis tournament at Wimbledon into his books. I can not wait to find out what is going to happen next to Alex. Right now I have read the last two great books Stormbeaker and Point blank and couldn't wait to find out what happens next in the book Skeleton Key. Skeleton key is a book about the Alex Rider series and another great adventure. But this time he is in Cuba with two CIA agents pretending to be his parents. The reason why they are all there is to spy on a general is believed to a have a nuclear bomb, they are there to see what he is going to do with. So the way they are going to do that is they are going to spy on his place and try to where he has the nuclear bomb and try to take it back to Europe so it can be safe from all man kind.
This is a book for a person who likes to read Spy-adventures books so I really recommend the Alex Rider series