A review by emzareads
Nightshade by Anthony Horowitz

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

i love the whole alex rider series but i'm not entirely sure how much of that love is based on nostalgia and how much is based on the actual quality of the series. nevertheless, it was really fun to reread this book after over three years (!) and get back into the alex rider world. the whole series is just so easy to read and get into the story. i also think it's really funny that all of the technology descriptions are so specific. god forbid the readers should not know that the gun pointing at alex's head is a winchester rifle 2014 model 12mm barrel with 0.758 second recoil and long range firing capacity or whatever. nightshade is a great book - i think because it's longer than the rest of them, there's more time for the story and characters to develop at a decent pace and it's definitely different from the other books in the series. this was a reread so i can read the latest one but because it's been so long i didn't remember the whole story and so it was nice to follow along with the plot twists etc. it isn't my favourite alex rider book (from what i remember, my favourite was russian roulette, which is ironic considering it's the only one that isn't actually about alex) and the whole series isn't quite five star level for me anymore, but still super fun to read this and i'm looking forward to the next one.