282 reviews for:

Alex Rider, Band 5: Scorpia

Anthony Horowitz

3.96 AVERAGE

izreading88's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

kryolitee's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

nyx_belial's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous tense fast-paced

thamilvanan01's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

thayeryates's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous tense

khushg's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

helenephoebe's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Review - Alex seems very naive, believing Scorpia over MI5 when he's worked with MI5 for months, and Scorpia just come in and manipulate him. However, he also steps up at the end and this cancels out his earlier stupidity. This book is again very slightly better, though The themes of manipulation and betrayal are incredibly important and lend the book to a darker tone and more conflicting feelings, which improves on the earlier books immensely.

Genre? - Action / Mystery / Spy

Characters? - Alex Rider / Jack Starbright / Mrs Jones / Alan Blunt / Smithers

Setting? - London (England)

Series? - Alex Rider #5

Recommend? - Yes

Rating - 17/20

themtj's review against another edition

2.0

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I think it is safe to say that I'm losing steam in this series. The books keep getting slightly longer and more ridiculous each time. The first few felt like a fun homage to Ian Fleming's novels, this one felt like the long convoluted plot of the latter portion of Roger Moore's career. I've got a few more of these on my shelf so I may keep plugging away, but hopefully, the next one is better.

sandwiiche's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

abigailwantstoread_01's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes