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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
adventurous
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
adventurous
fast-paced
Diverse cast of characters:
No
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
The casual racism and fatphobia are really weird and uncomfortable. And in both book 1 and 2 the bad guy is an immigrant POC 🫤
Aside that, it’s always fun seeing children’s books’ authors put their characters in the most horrifying and traumatising situations possible and then go "Mental health repercussions? What’s that? 😃😃😃 "
Aside that, it’s always fun seeing children’s books’ authors put their characters in the most horrifying and traumatising situations possible and then go "Mental health repercussions? What’s that? 😃😃😃 "
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Child abuse, Fatphobia, Racism
This is the book the first season of the Alex Rider tv show is based off and it's fascinating to see the differences between the two. I think they did a really good job adapting and adding material to the tv show. While I did like this book overall, I definitely enjoyed it significantly less than the first one. The ending was very rushed, there's a lack of any fully developed supporting characters (which is a problem in the first book as well), and there's random subplot in the first act that opens the novel that's unrelated to anything else that happens afterwards.
Plot (Story / Pacing / Ending): 2/5
Characters (Characters / Development): 2/5
Writing (Prose / Dialogue / Style): 4/5
Other (Enjoyment / Read Pace / Worldbuilding / Etc): 2/5
Plot (Story / Pacing / Ending): 2/5
Characters (Characters / Development): 2/5
Writing (Prose / Dialogue / Style): 4/5
Other (Enjoyment / Read Pace / Worldbuilding / Etc): 2/5
adventurous
challenging
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
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
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I really like the premise of Point Blanc especially compared to Stormbreaker. Although I hate the way women are described in this book. Like why would you describe a teenagers body like that, it's a bit weird. Plus why are most or the female characters described as ugly. Anyway, I do really like Alex as a character and enjoy reading about his adventures. Also, I would recommend watching the TV adaptation of Alex Rider. It's what made me start reading this series in the first place. It's a bit different from the books but I do personally like what they've done with it.
Bad bois on a mountain. Posh kids with guns. Looks like a job for the worlds most reluctant part-time spy, part-time boy band member, part-time super model Alex Rider.
Anthony Horowitz charmingly dances around the sleazier parts of the spy genre, mostly keeping the misogyny to a minimum by mostly avoiding using female characters. I last listened to this under the influence of a migraine about fifteen years ago so I’d lost a lot of the details. I think it’s very good but does seem like a filler book between the marvelous Stormbreaker and the more back-storyey, epic quests in Space and fighting villainous assassin networks which come later in the series. Which is why I gave it three stars. Comparative to a lot of children’s’ books it’s probably nearer the four stars.
Although I do feel compelled to point out, like a wet blanket would, that’s not how cloning works. Don’t be so silly.
Anthony Horowitz charmingly dances around the sleazier parts of the spy genre, mostly keeping the misogyny to a minimum by mostly avoiding using female characters. I last listened to this under the influence of a migraine about fifteen years ago so I’d lost a lot of the details. I think it’s very good but does seem like a filler book between the marvelous Stormbreaker and the more back-storyey, epic quests in Space and fighting villainous assassin networks which come later in the series. Which is why I gave it three stars. Comparative to a lot of children’s’ books it’s probably nearer the four stars.
Although I do feel compelled to point out, like a wet blanket would, that’s not how cloning works. Don’t be so silly.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
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