Reviews - Alex Rider, Band 5: Scorpia

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Alex Rider, Band 5: Scorpia

Anthony Horowitz

3.96 AVERAGE

lizzypopp's review against another edition

4.0

Alex as a bad guy would totally be unstoppable!

amberly1997's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Started and finished date - 20.06.25 to 22.06.25.
My rating - Three Stars.
I am enjoying books is series but I not loving them and I think people who like I think people who like siege by Chris Ryan, I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you by Ally Carter or close protection by Eden Victoria would like is book. I found these book too focused the action and not enough the character development also the cover of book was okay. The writing was both easy to read and easy follow also the ending was fine. The paced of plot was well structured and steady paced. I like the characters but I feel at they flash out bit more also I think the TV show did better job at developing and flash characters out.

saranade_'s review against another edition

3.0

Is there no protection for kids at all? Seems to be a theme here. This part of the series got a bit culturally inappropriate and there were a lot of comments on people’s appearances (like Nile) that I didn’t appreciate. On the other hand, I liked finding out more about his parents. I’m more interested in that than the separate adventures which keeps me reading. There was definitely more of a cliffhanger that usual for the next book.

enaminella's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

polaryse's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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: No

This is book is definately one of the top ones in the series. The writing quality and the plot are amazing, I would say Scorpia is currently one of my favorites in the series.

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nixazrael's review against another edition

3.0

Okay. Well. This book. This book was pretty cool, all said. At the end of the last book, I was almost in shock. I mean, whooooah. ALEX RIDER HAS A BIGGER PLOT THAN JUST A TEENAGE SPY RATTING OUT BAD GUYS. EVERYBODY GO HIDE UNDER A TABLE OR PUT A PAPER BAG OVER YOUR HEAD OR START USING THAT SUB-ETHA THUMB THINGY; THE WORLD IS ENDING.

Sorry, your ears are probably bleeding right now. Or would it be more accurate to say your eyes?

But I loved it that this time there was plot. I mean, yeah, the other Rider books are pretty great in their own right, but just as I was starting to get bored (I mean, well, not really . . . I probably would have read this series until my eyes fell out . . . I'm pretty desperate for reading material these days) Anthony Horowitz pulls something new out of his hat and viola (yeah, viola), you have a fresh new plot and a refreshed new interest in the Alex Rider series. I just feel like we shouldn't have gone on so much of the same country before getting to the exciting part. I don't know how many people have read just two books and thought they were too similar in general plot device and thus, preferred to take the helicopter out of the desert in boredom rather than trudge through to a somewhat more satisfying conclusion. Not that . . . it was all that great . . .

Okay, I'm conflicted. It was a good book, but it's considerably below reading level and I shouldn't be eating it. I mean, reading it. (I mean, I shouldn't be eating books of any sort . . . not even good books like the classics.)

Anyway, brings me to a quick point before leaving--Alex Rider, despite his age, would be a more appropriate book for me if I were 10.