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    Stormbreaker

    Written by Anthony Horowitz

    Narrated by Nathaniel Parker

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    They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's car confirm the truth. But nothing can prepare him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for Britain's top-secret intelligence agency. Enlisted to find his uncle's killers and complete Ian's final mission, Alex suddenly finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, with no way out. The original novel that started the worldwide phenomenon is now a major motion picture!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 25, 2006
    ISBN9780739335369
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    Stormbreaker
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    Anthony Horowitz

    ANTHONY HOROWITZ is the author of the US bestselling Magpie Murders and The Word is Murder, and one of the most prolific and successful writers in the English language; he may have committed more (fictional) murders than any other living author. His novel Trigger Mortis features original material from Ian Fleming. His most recent Sherlock Holmes novel, Moriarty, is a reader favorite; and his bestselling Alex Rider series for young adults has sold more than 19 million copies worldwide. As a TV screenwriter, he created both Midsomer Murders and the BAFTA-winning Foyle’s War on PBS. Horowitz regularly contributes to a wide variety of national newspapers and magazines, and in January 2014 was awarded an OBE.

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    • 4/5
      This review has been crossposted from my blog Review from Rose's Book Reviews Please head there for more in-depth reviews by me.Horowitz is a prolific writer, and has produced a number of series and stand alone books for younger teens and children. 'Stormbreaker' is the first in a long line of Alex Rider spy stories. As a young teen's book, it's a very easy read for me, and also very predictable. I think it would be great for kids who are too young for James Bond (particularly boys) just to get them into reading.Alex Rider's uncle has just been killed in a suspicious car accident. His parents have died years before, and now the only person looking out for him is Jack, an American immigrant to London whose visa is about to expire. Alex wouldn't be worried - except for the bank that his uncle worked for is hunting him...Alex is a somewhat sketchy character, but certainly enough to satisfy younger readers. The entire focus is on Alex, despite the book being written in 3rd person perspective. The main driver of the book is the plot, which leaps ahead very quickly - that is the element that would make this book attractive to younger readers with a short attention span. The language is quite simple as well.This novel was shortlisted for the 2001 Children's Book Awards, and I can understand why. Yes, there is violence and death in it, but only of the bad guys! Alex himself isn't allowed a gun, which I think was a wise move by Horowitz, given the current climate. This book is a number of years old (obviously), but it's certainly still relevant and enjoyable today.This book, and the others in the series (which I will probably get around to reading and reviewing soon), are good books for children and reluctant readers.
    • 4/5
      Snappy plot... Alex finds himself coerced into playing spy after he discovered that his recently deceased uncle died in the course of his spy duties. If you can overlook the idea that a fourteen year old could do what a highly trained man couldn't, it's a fun ride. Alex is highly competent, despite himself, and his skills and quick wit help him win the day against crazy people.
    • 3/5
      SPOILERS



      Interesting enough to read the sequel. I am not sure I like it as it felt a little like an adult trying too hard to write like a cool teen. There were some missing elements in the storyline. Alex didn't get emotional at the death of his uncle. At all. He didn't go up to the office to explore who his uncle really was or try to find out more information about him.
      Alex walked through each stage. I guess, not enough drama.
    • 5/5
      Great read, realistic fiction.
    • 4/5
      Love this series!
    • 5/5
      The book was in United kingdom. The book has a bunch of action and mystery. In the begging its kinda slow but then after alex uncle dies, the action starts. Its starts when alex's uncle is killed in a car accident but alex is not so sure so he goes to investigate. Alex notices three bullet holes in the car and notices that his uncle wasn't killed in a car accident. Alex goes and investigates his uncles work to uncover that his uncle is a British spy. So alex is recruited and trains for a week with older spies and after his training is done he gets gadgets and goes to find out what the billionaire who is giving free laptops to the whole country is up to. towards the end alex gets captured and is put into a aquarium with a big jelly fish. alex breaks out and gets on the plane to london where the prime minister will turn on the laptops that will release a poisonous gas in the air that will kill all the children in London. Alex then parachutes down to stop the prime minister. Alex saves the day. It was a great book. they had really cool gadgets like the game boy and exploding zit cream.
    • 5/5
      This book is about a boy who has lost his dad mom and little brother in an accident and is raised by his uncle who he thinks is a bank manager. His uncle is actually a spy for a top secret UK organization. his uncle dies in a car accident and Alex is told that his uncle didn't have a seat belt on but that's a lie. Alex goes to his funeral and there are 2 mysterious men who he later figures out is his uncles employers. They eventually recruit Alex to go on a spy mission for them but before he can he goes to a boot camp which is the same boot camp the English special forces go to. He has some trouble there but he finally is ready for his mission to a corporation that makes advanced tech and they made a new CPU that they are giving for free to every school in England. but that's very odd because the CPU's cost thousands to make so Alex is sent to figure it out. He arrives and they allow him to stay and test the CPU's he thins there great and nothings wrong but there is something wrong later while Alex is having dinner with Sayle (the man creating the CPU's) he suspicious Vole (one of Sayle's henchmen) steals Alex's phone and tracks the SIM card to his house in Chelsea she is confronted by Alex and they fight Alex wins. The next day Alex's cover is blown and they capture Alex. Sayle tells Alex his plot he his installed a virus in each computer and when they are all delivered they will release and kill all the school children. Sayle leaves Alex to die and goes to deliver they CPU's to the country later Alex escapes and ruins Sayles plan and in the end Alex is a hero.I enjoyed this book very much and hope to finish the series. I gave this book this rating because it was different than other books with a kid being the hero. Also it was very fun to try and figure out the plot. I wasn't able to keep my eyes off the book. I hope the rest of the series will be as enjoyable as this one.
    • 4/5
      Youth-oriented James Bond homage. The hero is only 14 and falls into his fate, so is without the Bond swagger. But the story has all the trappings: swarthy, well-spoken villains, taciturn henchmen, gadgets releasing our hero from deviously intricate peril, dramatic locations and pacing. Pulp-y as in lots of drive, little depth, but exciting and inventive. One could easily be tempted to read Book 2...
    • 5/5
      true action pack!
    • 5/5
      A stormy book which was made impossibly by a good author.
    • 4/5
      A student highly recommended this to me, so of course I had to read it. Fast paced Bondish (if Bond was a 14 year old boy) adventure of spy in the making. Found it odd that the author felt compelled to go into great detail about the cars in the story, perhaps that's part of writing for boys that this girl just doesn't get.
    • 3/5
      This book required the sort of willing suspension of disbelief that I do not naturally possess. While an interesting premise, and not badly executed, the plot really left something to be desired in terms of believable details. There is a great deal of standard trope here, with pretty much the entire plot forecast from the beginning. It's perfectly readable though, and I can understand why it would be so popular among its target audience.
    • 5/5
      Alex Rider thought he was a normal kid. Thought he lived a normal life. Thought he had a normal uncle. When his world is turned upside down one September evening, he begins to question everything he thought he knew. Alex Rider is no stranger to tragedy. His parents died in a freak accident when he was young, leaving him in the care of his uncle; Ian Rider. Just when his life starts to settle down, however, he is awakened in the middle of the night with terrible news; his uncle has died in a car crash. The suspicious circumstances surrounding his death lead Alex to suspect foul play, and new facts involving Ian comes to light. Everything he knew was wrong, and now he is being called upon by the same company Ian worked for to finish the job he had started. He goes undercover, posing as another boy and must spy on a powerful enterprise. His target; Herod Sayle, creator of the Stormbreaker. His mission; save England from the biggest disaster it has ever encountered. His normal life just got a little bit more interesting. Anthony Horowitz is able to write a story that incorporates the action spy intrigue along with a teenage boy’s struggle to come to terms with his new life and dangerous tasks ahead of him. He manages to keep the story intense and interesting and still make Alex feel like a real, normal 14-year old boy whose emotions and thoughts add another dimension to the story. Horowitz turns just another action adventure into a story about a regular boy (although arguably more interesting) who feels sadness and pain just like the rest of us. However, there is never a dull moment in the entire novel. Even when he is reading a map or searching for clues, Horowitz makes it so the reader can feel the anticipation and intensity growing with each word he writes. Alex has moments where he doubts himself or makes mistakes, but eventually learns and grows right in front of the reader’s eyes. His never ending determination to stand up for what is right makes him an admirable character, especially when it is harder than just giving up. Even when presented with the opportunity to leave and retreat to safety, he never backs down. However, Anthony adds enough imperfections to make the reader feel like he wasn’t just an irritatingly perfect super hero but a real person. The only thing the author could have improved was to make his transformation a little less sudden, and with more of a conclusion. However, it was a four and a half stars out of five over all.
    • 5/5
      A normal teenager now living with his Uncle an ordinary bank teller after he was orphaned by his parents. He lives with his uncle and the housekeeper Jack. Alex was very close to his uncle and his uncle took Alex on trips around the world that he called adventure trips Alex not kowing that his uncle was training him to become a spy. After his uncle dies in a so called car crash Alex goes to the bank to which his uncle works and discovers that it is in fact the headquarters of the British intelligence agency known as MI6. As the perceived image of his ordinary bank telling uncle fades he is recruited to be a spy by Alan Blunt leader of MI6. His mission is to stop Herod Sayle, a renowned computer maker from producing his new line of mega computers the Stormbreaker to every school in Britain at no cost . Going deep undercover infiltrating Sayle’s compound with high- tech gadgets provided by MI6. He meets some key people in the Stormbreaker program for example, Nadia Vole and the mute and disfigured Mr. Grin and Alex himself gets to test the new Sotrmbreaker computer. Alex explores the compound where the computer is madde going into a restricted area of the compound discovering small secrets about the Stormbreaker computer that were going to lead to something big. Just as he was getting close to uncovering the full secret of the computer he is captured by Sayle and his henchmen. Using the high tech gadgets he had received at MI6 which he miraculously managed to conceal, he is able to escape from the high security compound. He races to London to stop Sayle from activating the weapon inside of the Stormbreaker computer that could kill millions of British school children. Confronting Sayle he is able to stop Sayle moments before launching the weapon with the help of his friend Sabrina Pleasure and his housekeeper Jack.I believed Anthony Horwitz’s Alex Rider : Stormbreaker deserved five stars for many reasons. The diverse word choice and the vivid pictures painted by the imagery in the story was fascinating. In addition, There were constantly rising actions, climaxes, and falling actions at the right parts of the story. Finally, even though this was my second time reading the book, it still had me on the edge of my seat reading almost cover to cover. For these reasons and many more I believe that Alex Rider : Stormbreaker was highly worthy of five stars and a great way to kick off the series.
    • 3/5
      Stormbreaker
      Realistic, fast paced action mixed with a bit of mystery as Alex Rider discovers just who his uncle was and how his parents died. Well portrayed, cinematic scenes.
    • 4/5
      If you ever watched James Bond Junior in the early nineties, that's what this is. It's essentially James Bond's nephew filling his shoes with MI6. I enjoyed this a great deal more than I expected to! It's fun, adventurous, thrilling, and approachable (it isn't precocious - even if the protagonist is). The antagonist's motivation was a bit...meh. It was just very juvenile motivation; that being said, if I ever became a criminal mastermind, I'd probably have the same motivation (I'll never accuse myself of being overly mature. As I tell my students, I'm 27 going on four).
    • 2/5
      It was alright. I like more complicated plots. It was overly simplistic once Alex Rider got to the compound. The villains were comical rather than sinister. Too much like caricatures. A lot of luck was involved in Alex's adventures, too shallow and not enough depth, rather like an action film that focuses more on action than plot. It was enjoyable enough.
    • 4/5
      As a young adult homage to James Bond, Stormbreaker is a lot of fun. It's fast-paced, exciting and contains a surprising amount of tension for a short novel. The story is set out like a classic Bond film, featuring a flamboyantly evil villain, gadgets in the shape of every-day objects, an imposing mute henchman and a hero who bravely spouts one-liners in the face of death. Although a novel of this type could easily become dark and gritty, Horowitz keeps his story light by reducing violence to a minimum and ensuring that Alex does not carry a gun.However, to fully appreciate this story you must be able to suspend your disbelief. It is a lot of fun but the plot is completely out there. If you go into this story expecting something coherent and deep, you're going to be severely disappointed. The villian's overall scheme is in equal parts brilliant and bizarre, seeming all the more over the top when you understand his motives. I won't spoil it for you here (it has to be read to be fully appreciated) but believe me when I say it's unforgettable.My only real problem with the story is the weak characterisation. There are no strong female characters within the novel(something that I hope is rectified in future instalments) and the main characters (Alex and Sayle) are little more than a teenage James Bond and typical stock Bond villain. Alex, in particular, is one of the worst Gary Stus that I've ever encountered in a novel as he has no personality traits beyond the ability to be absolutely perfect in everything that he does.So pick it up if you want a read that's light and entertaining. Just don't expect a lot of substance beyond this.
    • 5/5
      This book was about a spy named Alex Rider. What Alex Rider did was that he worked for the MI6 in London and was appointed there because he found out that his uncle had really been a spy there too. They made Alex a spy in place of his uncle that died in a mission. It turns out Alex was very useful and he went through training quickly. Then, they sent him to a place near the shore, that was a factory and he had been ordered to find and if possible, kill a man named Herod Sayle. Herod Sayle was a man who was from Cairo and was extremely smart so he started a business and now is delivering computers called Stormbreakers to schools all around Great Britain. The MI6 suspected something wrong with it because of his uncle and sent Alex to investigate. Alex went their as a pretend student to be the first to use the stormbreaker and found lots of evidence that the stormbreaker computers had a virus, but a virus that was in the computer but also came out when it was turned on and could kill thousands of children but Alex found out and in the end he had gotten trapped in an aquarium holding a giant Portuguese Man of War jelly fish but managed to break out with one of his gadgets and kill Herod Sayle before he delivered the computers.My opinion on this book is that it was a very good book. I liked the fact that they had chosen only a fourteen year old boy in London to do jobs an adult should be doing just because his uncle had been a spy at the MI6. I also liked the fact that the author of the book had managed to make Alex into an exceptional spy and still make it believable that he could do the things that he could. The stormbreaker computers was also a very good idea to put into the story. Also the background of how Herod Sayle grew up in Cairo but saved some rich people so they adopted him but he was bullied in school and the he wanted revenge so he created the stormbreakers with a virus was very creative. I knew that there were 6 or 7 sequels of Alex Rider so I knew that he wouldn't die in this book but he came very close to dying in the book. That was what made the book super interesting for me. That was my summary for Alex Rider Stormbreaker book.
    • 4/5
      Alex Rider, in rapid succession, learns (1) his guardian uncle is dead, (2) his uncle was a spy, and (3) Alex himself must take his uncle’s place. What a page-turner!No kid could read this book and not want to read more.
    • 4/5
      Great read for an early independent reader. Font big, 17 short, suspenseful chapters that i felt were well written although at unbelievable. But i could think back to Macgyver & Maxwell Smart and who would've thought that we would do most of our shopping from the comfort of our homes so the gadgets and plots could really happen. Fourteen year old Alex Rider is forced into becoming a spy after his uncle Ian Rider is murdered as he is just about to expose a plot to kill school children. I liked how the plot evolved and developed with the extra interesting bits added e.g gadgets, Portuguese Man of war jellyfish. I will go on to read other Alex Rider stories.
    • 5/5
      A fast-paced, action packed ride that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Thrilling.
    • 3/5
      I've been meaning to read a book from this series since my son loved it and I've blindly recommended to other boys. I was a little disappointed with the plot. I love fantasy but this seemed so unrealistic... I guess that's to be expected from many teen adventure books, but fr some reason I was disappointed. I expected more from Horowitz...
    • 3/5
      A solid James Bond-y type read.
    • 3/5
      Bought this book for my nephew. I liked it ok, but it's not really my type of things. It is just basically a teenaged James Bond type novel. A bit fantastical. I don't think most 14 year olds would be able to do what Alex did in the book, even if he been somewhat training all his life. It was a bit over the top, but I think a teenaged boy would probably love it.
    • 3/5
      Very exciting in the beginning, this page turner features a young boy with a certain charm, but the rest of the characters are over the top, unbelievable, and seem to be stock figures in a movie. IN fact, references to movies abound in this book. It feels as if Mr. Horowitz was writing a novel with an intention for a quick sale as a screenplay.
    • 3/5
      Cliffhanger at the end of every chapter, and the chapters are pretty short. I would call it "James Bond by way of James Patterson for children."
    • 5/5
      Characters: main character a student named Alex Rider; his guardian/ Uncle Ian (Numerous minor characters) Setting: London and Port Tallon England Theme: Suspense and dramaGenre: Science fictionSummary: After Alex parents die he is left to live with his uncle Ian. Ian is living double lives. He is working as a banker but his job is an agent working for M16. When Alex ‘s uncle dies he is forced to join the corporation to stop the release of biological warfare. Alex is taken on an adventure that leaves him in compromising situations fight for his life. Audience: Youth Curriculum: Reading Skills and critical thinking skills Personal Response: This was one of the best books I have read. I have not been on such an emotional roller coaster because no one was what they seemed. You could not trust anyone because everyone was fight to either release the disease or trying to keep it contained. The book is filled with excitement and leaves the reader wanting more.
    • 5/5
      This extraoardinary book is about an ordinary boy who is transformed from a schoolboy to a super spy- Alex Rider. With an unexpected death and dilema Alex Rider finds out many suprising and life-changing mysteries which lead to him risking his life to save hundreds of lives.
    • 5/5
      Year 7 book review:Stormbreaker by Anthony HorowitzThis story is abut an ordinary boy called Alex Rider who becomes a spy when his uncle is mysteriously is shot. Alex ends up facing things he didn't think were real... "There was the sound of chattering machine guns and a spray of bullets that were passing his head, what could he do, what would happen to him, was this the end?". Anyone who loves adventure and excitement should really read this book. I loved it and am now reading the rest of the series. My rating is TEN OUT OF TEN IT IS BRILLIANT!!!!!