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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
These books are so entertaining and fun. I continue to recommend them to my middle school kids because they are so accessible and thrilling. This was a perfect way to bind together the series with a flashback/prequel and I admire the craft of the author and his most excellent characters. I look forward to reading what Horowitz comes up with next.
Alex Rider is a series of action-packed spy novels about a 14 year old boy who works for the British Secret Service. Russian Roulette is the latest in the series, but as a prequel, it takes place before the previous nine books, and so the reader won’t be too confused reading them out of sequence.
This book is told as a series of diary entries from the perspective of Yassen Gregoravich – the villainous Russian assassin who has threatened Alex Rider throughout the series. This book details Yassen’s childhood, and the circumstances which led to his becoming recruited by the Sinister Scorpia organization, and becoming a contract killer.
Russian Roulette is action-packed, but don’t write it off as all guns and explosions and ‘boyish’ adventures – it’s an intelligent and well-written book, and can be enjoyed by anyone!
This book is told as a series of diary entries from the perspective of Yassen Gregoravich – the villainous Russian assassin who has threatened Alex Rider throughout the series. This book details Yassen’s childhood, and the circumstances which led to his becoming recruited by the Sinister Scorpia organization, and becoming a contract killer.
Russian Roulette is action-packed, but don’t write it off as all guns and explosions and ‘boyish’ adventures – it’s an intelligent and well-written book, and can be enjoyed by anyone!
A kind of prequel to the main Alex Rider series. This book follows Yassen, one of the antagonists from the first book as we watch the twists and turns that led him to become an assassin for the big bads of the series, Scorpia.
Yassen was a very likeable lead and I empathised with him throughout. It was engaging and exciting.
3.5 stars
Yassen was a very likeable lead and I empathised with him throughout. It was engaging and exciting.
3.5 stars
No, this was not it.
My Rating: 3 Stars
Granny's Rating: 3.5 Stars
My Rating: 3 Stars
Granny's Rating: 3.5 Stars
adventurous
medium-paced
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I really enjoyed the Alex Rider series as I was growing up, so when I saw that there was one last book in the series I just had to pick it up. This book it actually from Yassen's point of view and not Alex Rider's (which you can assume from the title as well). It makes for a very interesting character study and it's nice to get a little more background on a seemingly minor recurring character, but who has a lot of history with the Rider family. I think fan's of the series will enjoy this book as well - and it might help make Yassen a little more human in their eyes.