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katie_is_dreaming 's review for:
Stormbreaker
by Anthony Horowitz
3.5/5
I'm not the audience for this book, but I needed something to listen to while I was doing some work one day, and I found this on the library app, and it was one to mark off the Big Read list, so I listened to it.
I'm not the audience for it, but it was a bit more sophisticated than I was expecting. There's all the cool stuff about a kid getting to be a spy, but there's also a deeper tension around Alex' involvement with MI6 that interested me. Horowitz also clearly had some knowledge of his subject, so I felt the story was in capable hands. It didn't drag or meander either, and it was a good adventure, even if the notion of the boy spy was quite a bit outside the realm of possibility.
I felt it got a bit too bogged down in materialism early on, describing everything that Alex had, but I suppose that's wish fulfilment for young boys.
I'd probably listen to more, and I'd probably recommend it to my nephews when they're old enough too.
I'm not the audience for this book, but I needed something to listen to while I was doing some work one day, and I found this on the library app, and it was one to mark off the Big Read list, so I listened to it.
I'm not the audience for it, but it was a bit more sophisticated than I was expecting. There's all the cool stuff about a kid getting to be a spy, but there's also a deeper tension around Alex' involvement with MI6 that interested me. Horowitz also clearly had some knowledge of his subject, so I felt the story was in capable hands. It didn't drag or meander either, and it was a good adventure, even if the notion of the boy spy was quite a bit outside the realm of possibility.
I felt it got a bit too bogged down in materialism early on, describing everything that Alex had, but I suppose that's wish fulfilment for young boys.
I'd probably listen to more, and I'd probably recommend it to my nephews when they're old enough too.