Snakehead (Alex Rider)

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This one was another one of the darker books in this series. The more I read of this series, the more I'm convinced this isn't actually a middle grade series. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth The highly successful Alex Rider novels include Stormbreaker, Point Blank, Skeleton Key, and the recent Eagle Strike. This edition had the bonus chapter 'Coda' telling us how 'it' happened. Although it did flesh out the

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My thoughts about the Alex Rider series changed with every book I read. The first book, Stormbreaker, gave me shivers and totaly amazed me. The second book, Point Blanc, was interesting and I felt weird while I read it, although the end was very good. The third book, Skeleton Key, didn't have much action, but the end was a very cool part. The fourth book, Eagle Strike, was a favorite in the Alex Rider series, and I enjoyed how things played out through the end. The fifth book, Scorpia, was had lots of mystery in it and Alex did some things that were very stupid and I didn't like most of the beginning. But, in the end, it turned out to be a cool book. The sixth book, Arch Angel was alright, not one of the best ones. It was really cheesey and not one of the better ones. It seemed that everything was building up to 'Scorpia' and after its cataclysmic ending there just had to be a wrap-up book-but Snakehead... kinda boring. There were also other parts of the book that seemed racist to me. The way Alex views places like Bangkok and Jakarta is not very flattering, obviously those cities are very different from what he's used to so I'm not saying he had to think they were great cities, but he sounds absolutely revolted. Anthony Horowitz also describes a Chinese character as a "chinaman" at one point, a term I thought we had kinda left behind at this point. This book was amazing in my opinion. Anthony Horowitz does a great job of keeping this book series going strong, as well as keeping each book interesting while using many of the same elements in each book. A couple of complaints more: This book ends with Alex needing to defuse a bomb AGAIN, as if that wasn't the climax of the last book too. Not very original. There is also a new audiobook narrator for the series, and I can't say I approve, I miss the sassiness the last one had.

Alex seemed to be coming around to MI6. I really thought he was warming to the idea of becoming a full-time operative-he was anxious about returning to school (a place he OBVIOUSLY doesn't belong). The author undoes this good work at the end of the book as he enjoys school once more. I really enjoyed this novel. I was always on the edge of my seat, it was hard to put down. It was full of action and suspense, and I was never bored reading it. There was almost never a time when there was a dull moment, it was always interesting. I give it five out of five stars. Alex Rider lands in the South Pacific after blowing up the Ark Angel in outer space. After his recovery, he is sent to a military base in Swanbourne, Australia, and spends some time with a few of the soldiers there. One day before his departure, he goes to a barbecue with them but finds himself on a minefield by accident, only narrowly escaping being killed by leaping off an armed landmine. Alex is puzzled by the incident. There's a particular scene near the end that really grossed me out, but I won't say what because it's a spoiler. This poor kid. These government figures really mess around with him and play these mind games with him and THEY DON'T EVEN PAY HIM.

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This is kinda a weird complaint to add on here, but they are told that they don't need to worry about the body paint (ugh) washing off unless they bathe (and obviously refugees never wash, at least not in the Alex Rider universe, so that's not a problem...), but they specifically end up soaking wet multiple times. Alex swims through a river, ends up drenched in rain, and I understand that it's not the same as scrubbing yourself with soap, but you would think that at some point he worries about it washing off and at least tries to look himself in a mirror? No, it's never brought up. It's just poor writing. My dad was a spy. My uncle was a spy. And now it turns out I've got a godfather who's a spy. You have to admit, it runs in the family." Alex finally got his hands on a gun, which was refreshing. But..guess what? He missed, lol. Not that it sonds unlikely. I also think that this one had some good commentary happening surrounding government and some other issues in relation with the government.

Anthony Horowitz, OBE is ranked alongside Enid Blyton and Mark A. Cooper as "The most original and best spy-kids authors of the century." (New York Times). Anthony has been writing since the age of eight, and professionally since the age of twenty. In addition to the highly successful Alex Rider books, he is also the writer and creator of award winning detective series Foyle’s War, and more recently event drama Collision, among his other television works he has written episodes for Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders and Murder Most Horrid. Anthony became patron to East Anglia Children’s Hospices in 2009. A miserably unhappy and overweight child, Anthony had nowhere to turn for solace. "Family meals," he recalls, "had calories running into the thousands…. I was an astoundingly large, round child…." At the age of eight he was sent off to boarding school, a standard practice of the times and class in which he was raised. While being away from home came as an enormous relief, the school itself, Orley Farm, was a grand guignol horror with a headmaster who flogged the boys till they bled. "Once the headmaster told me to stand up in assembly and in front of the whole school said, 'This boy is so stupid he will not be coming to Christmas games tomorrow.' I have never totally recovered." To relieve his misery and that of the other boys, he not unsurprisingly made up tales of astounding revenge and retribution. The seventh novel in the Alex Rider series begins just seconds after the end of book 6, Ark Angel. Alex soon finds himself in Australia and is given the option of working with the Australian Secret Service. Due to his previous outings with MI6 and the CIA, he is very much against the idea. But when he finds out he would be working with the man who was his father’s best friend and who was there at his death, the chance to learn the details of what happened is just too much for Alex to pass up.

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Snakehead is the seventh novel in the Alex Rider series written by British author Anthony Horowitz. The book was released in Australia on 28 September 2007, in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2007, and in the US on 13 November 2007. The title comes from the name given to Asian gangs involved in people smuggling illegal passports, visas, weapons, and more. Snakehead takes place directly after the events of Ark Angel, with Alex finding himself in Australian waters where he landed at the end of that story. Definitely the worst book in the series so far. This should have stayed in the drafts. Mostly because of how uncomfortably racist it is.I was a bit uncomfortable with some of the themes in this one (particularly where Alex dressed up as an Afghan refugee for a mission), but it really showcased the time when this book was published. I don't pretend to have any idea as to how spec ops operate, but: a delicate mission like this and they build a crew of the most experienced 20-yer-olds?? Knives only?? I mean, come on! Surely there are some crossbows, army-issued pneumatic guns, what not. I've been making a couple of comments throughout my re-reading of this series, calling out problematic aspects of the previous books, but for the most parts I've been thinking that there are moments in the series that just haven't aged well, not that anything has been . But this one just crossed a lot of lines for me. In Australia, Ethan Brooke, head of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), coerces Alex into helping him by pairing him with agent Ash, who was his godfather and once his father's best friend, to investigate the powerful Snakehead Ring under Winston Yu, after two failed attempts to infiltrate the organization. Alex then travels to Bangkok, Thailand where he meets Ash. He explains that he and Alex will take on the identities of Afghan refugees who have paid the Snakehead to smuggle them into Australia. Throughout their journey they are to identify key members of the Snakehead and find out their operations.